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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ldest continuous major [[civilization]]s, with written records dating back at least 3,500 years, and w...
14: ... of the Grand Historian|Historical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiogr...
15: ...s.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or ...
28: ...[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
37: *[[Emma Abbott|Abbott, Emma]], (1849-1891), American singer - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
20: ...o Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
35: ...), Finnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
54: *[[Jenny Agutter|Agutter, Jenny]], (born 1952), English actress - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
6: ...nvolved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist movement...
14: ...e 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness.
22: *[http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/ireland.html Detail... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
9: *[[Henrietta Muir Edwards]] (an advocate for working women an...
15: In ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1928]]<nowiki...
20: ... Senate. In their decision (''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1930]]<nowiki... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ... East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a c...
11: ...ributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic infor...
13: ...ical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Populatio...
24: ...keep women in submission. An [[atheist]], Sanger attacked the Christian church for its opposition to h...
35: ...han the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prev... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...erebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through ...
7: ...] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. De...
15: ..., saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral.
22: ...sh]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil''
26: ...Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm]]'' and ''[[The Poor Little Rich Girl]]'', among other films. She tours th... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...d|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and t...
10: ...love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved...
14: ...was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attention of the poet and critic [[Maximilian Voloshi...
18: ...n Museum]] of Fine Arts was ceremonially opened, attended by the Czar, [[Nicholas II of Russia|Nichola...
24: ...caused Tsvetaeva great grief and regret. In one letter, she said, 'God punished me.' During these year... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: ...[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary ach...
15: ...r life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ... Woolf: Lesbian Readings'', edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers tre...
35: *''[[To the Lighthouse]]'' ([[1927]])
60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a st...
19: ...975]], her fortunes seemed to be turning to the better when she was the star of a retrospective show i...
33: ...mdb.com/title/tt0135652/ La Sir讥 des tropiques (1927)]'' ... aka ''Siren of the Tropics''
34: * ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026023/ Zouzou (1934)]''
35: * ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026891/ Princesse Tam Tam (1935)]'' - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o...
3: ...ales were sluggish at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success howev...
11: *[http://www.fembio.org/women/mahalia-jackson.shtml Bio... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...notorious across the nation. They captivated the attention of the [[American]] press and its readershi...
15: ... far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang.
23: ...stham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to a rattlesnake."
25: ...r his release in 1932, Clyde moved to [[Massachusetts]], purportedly to make a clean start. However, h...
27: ...o leave the "hot" area. The incident followed a pattern for Bonnie and Clyde that persisted until thei... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ...areer at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], deba...
13: ...sionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at the urging of her fath...
15: ...1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
27: ...1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, California]...
29: ...e and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to her crowd of follow... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...de her truly happy. After injuring her knee, she attended a [[film]] showing on the topic of mountains...
7: ...e refused, suggesting that Hitler have [[Walter Ruttmann]] film it instead. Riefenstahl later consente...
15: ...pted to make other films after the war, but each attempt was met with resistance, protests, sharp crit...
31: ...[[Der Groߥ Sprung]]'' (''[[The Great Leap]]'', [[1927]])
61: ...d ''[[Riefenstahl (compilation)|Riefenstahl]]'' [http://www.discogs.com/release/208963], featuring suc... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
8: ...ther minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: ...t choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...he played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York ...
24: ...50s. Her outrageous behavior -- fueled by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Gran... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
17: ...ng at the altar when she changed her mind about getting married. The actress reportedly had several le...
25: ...n, ''Love'', with John Gilbert in ([[1927 in film|1927]]).
31: ...she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres and answered no fan mail.
33: ...ghs!" A follow-up film, ''[[Two-Faced Woman]]'', attempted to capitalize upon this by casting Garbo in...
38: ...he was awarded a special Academy Award for unforgettable performances in [[1954]]. In the mid-[[1950s]... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celeb...
16: ...the court were noted, however. She garnered much attention in the media when she appeared at the Wimbl...
24: ...gions of France that had been devastated by the battles of World War I, she went to the [[United State...
36: Public attention for their meeting in the tournament final w...
38: ...was seen by [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] English attendees as an insult to the monarchy. Lenglen withd... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
15: ''Viola × wittrockiana''
17: ... hybrids and are referred to as ''Viola × wittrockiana''. The name "pansy" also appears as part...
37: ...tals join the center of the flower, a single '''bottom petal''' with a slight indentation.
54: ...sealed container. Dissolve 1 ounce (28 g) in a little hot water and add this to 2 gallons of cold wat...
66: Transmitted by aphids. Fine yellow veining on young leaves... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...an interiors until the 18th century. The hand-knotted pile carpet probably originated in [[Mongolia]]...
3: ...s a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering that is loose-laid, most often...
12: ...made by pulling strips of cloth such as wool or cotton through the meshes of a sturdy fabric such as b...
14: ...perpendicular angle. This supplementary weft is attached to the warp by one of three knot types (see ...
16: ... composed of several stripes sewn together. Moquette carpets have been used on floors, tables, as fur...
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