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- Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
27: ...,000 and complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut.
36: ...ies she had made in her prime) was shocked by her frail appearance and her nearly unintelligible speec... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...at [[Bessines-sur-Gartempe]], [[Haute-Vienne]], [[France]] the daughter of an unmarried laundress, Suz...
8: ...f Valadon would be Renoir's ''Dance at Bougival'' from [[1883]], the same year that she posed for ''Ci...
12: ...rth her son later took the family name of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of ...
24: ..."[[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
3: ...6]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...ears later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a s...
9: ...edes]], Germain requested that General Pernety, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. Th...
17: ...became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...ecision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Gestapo]] and eventually used her convent...
5: ... and taken to the prison at Fort Montluc in Lyon. From there she was taken to [[Romainville]] before b...
7: ...h her portrait on a [[List of people on stamps of France|postage stamp]] and a street bearing her name... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
5: ...istance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of...
9: ...mprisoned. Under torture by the [[Gestapo]] at [[Fresnes prison]] in [[Paris]], Odette stuck to her c...
15: Her third husband was Geoffrey Hallowes. - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
2: ...a [[France|French]] actress, born in [[Paris]], [[France]].
4: ...lle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion]]'' ([[Roman...
8: ...arcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[Dav...
28: * ''[[Le dernier métro]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1980)
31: * ''[[La sirène du Mississippi]]'' ([[François Truffaut]]), (1969) - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
9: ... to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rea...
15: ...e Aumont]]. She reportedly was surprised to learn from Rainier that she was expected to give up her fi...
17: ...tle actual danger that [[Monaco]] would revert to France since, in [[1882]], a childless prince of Mon...
19: Before Grace Kelly drew Rainier's attention, French film star [[Gis謥 Pascal]] had been his love...
28: ...n an independent nation, rather than reverting to France. Due to Prince Albert's enduring bachelorhood... - Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
6: ...include ''[[Cousins]]'' a Hollywood remake of the French film <i>Cousin, Cousine</i>, and Nimue in the...
8: ...ode of ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]''.
12: ...Purplehood.jpg|thumb|right|Isabella Rossellini in French Magazine]]
14: ...wn photographers, including [[Richard Avedon]], [[Francesco Scavullo]], [[Annie Leibovitz]], and [[Rob... - Sheng (instrument) (1217 bytes)
3: ...[[Pinyin]] ''shēng'') is a [[mouth]]-blown [[free reed instrument]] (the first) consisting essent... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com... - Culture of China (15738 bytes)
10: ... religion. Early forms of art in China were made from pottery, jade and by bronze casting in the Shan...
14: ... latter who introduced the stanza form. Painting from the Tang dynasty period mainly consisted of lan...
29: ...s a sense of grandeur; this applies to everything from palaces to farmhouses. One notable exception is...
38: ...sty]]. Artifact circulating in US museums on loan from Beijing]]
83: ...] - [[Shanghai cuisine]] - [[Soy sauce]] - [[Stir frying]] - [[Szechuan cuisine]] - [[Szechuan pepper]... - Koala (10686 bytes)
20: ...t part of the bear family. The word "koala" comes from an [[aboriginal]] word meaning "does not drink"...
22: ...re found all along the eastern coast of Australia from near [[Adelaide]] to the base of the [[Cape Yor...
26: ...ales]] as ''P. cinereus cinereus''. The variation from one form to another is continuous, and there ar...
30: ...hildren]] delight in imitating) that can be heard from almost a [[kilometre]] away during the breeding...
35: ...nlarged to extract the maximum amount of nutrient from the poor quality diet. Much of this is done thr... - Conflict (3579 bytes)
- Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
6: * 2.4 MYA: [[Oldowan|Stone tools]] in [[Africa]]
8: ...YA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
112: * [[1589]]: [[Stocking frame]]: [[William Lee]]
134: ...quadrant]]: [[Thomas Godfrey (inventor)|Thomas Godfrey]] - Women's suffrage (11832 bytes)
1: ...ition of graded votes) rather than ''universal suffrage'' (abolition of discrimination due to, for ins...
2: ...Parade in New York City, 1912.jpeg|thumb|350px|Suffrage parade, New York City, 1912]]
3: ...s]] became the first modern polity where equal suffrage was extended to women.
4: ... Australia]] in [[1894]], along with universal suffrage in that state.
9: ''Main article: [[Timeline of women's suffrage]]'' - List of painters (54090 bytes)
7: *[[Paul Cezanne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist
12: *[[Claude Monet]], ([[1840]]-[[1926]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|impressionist]] painter
29: *[[Franklin Adams]]
59: *[[Fra Angelico]] ([[1387]]-[[1445]]) - Sumerian language (10760 bytes)
12: ...the [[19th century]]. Sumerian is distinguished from other languages of the area such as [[Hebrew la...
16: ...le Sumerian because they mainly reproduce tablets from [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]]-speaking [[Ninev...
26: ...r a dozen years, starting in 1885, even the great Friedrich Delitzsch accepted Halevy's arguments, not...
30: ...ranslating Sumerian can be illustrated by a quote from Miguel Civil of the University of Chicago's [[O...
34: ... to scholars as many literary tablets as possible from the collections in Philadelphia, Istanbul, and ... - Medieval literature (14207 bytes)
2: ...erature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly [[sacred]] to the exuberantly [[pro...
7: ...survived in the [[Breton lai|lais]] of [[Marie de France]], the ''[[Mabinogion]]'' and the [[King Arth...
10: ...anding down something from an [[auctor]] instead. From this point of view, the names of the individual...
20: ...iographies]], or "lives of the saints", were also frequently written, as an encouragement to the devou...
22: ...a prolific poet, and his [[Franciscan]] followers frequently wrote poetry themselves as an expression ... - Michigan (29427 bytes)
36: ...ake Michigan]], which in turn is believed to come from the [[Chippewa]] Indian word ''meicigama'', mea...
40: Michigan was explored and settled by French voyageurs in the 17th century. In [[1701]], ...
55: ...Br? and his fellow explorers from [[Grenoble]], [[France]], were probably the first white men to see [...
68: ...appointed by the U.S. President who selected them from eighteen persons chosen by the people. The Coun...
71: *[[1837]] Admitted as a free state into the union (the 26th state), it was a...
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