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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
19: ...3]]–[[1974]]), director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ([[1976]]–[[1977]]), an... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
13: |[[Colin Powell]]
27: ...Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to serve in that post.
29: ...ovember 2004]], Bush nominated Rice to succeed Powell as Secretary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]...
31: ...rm. She was the second African American (after Powell) and the first female to have been appointed to ...
34: ...1014fa_fact3] (Alma Powell is married to Colin Powell.) - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...s in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Represe...
7: ...[[William Dodd Hathaway|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hath...
11: ... chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
1: {| border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right" style="margin: 0em 1em ...
27: ... of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...gn relations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and forme...
31: ...eurial culture. She also aimed to cut back the [[welfare state]] and foster a more flexible labour mar...
36: ... Grantham Council in [[1945]], Roberts was not re-elected as an Alderman, a decision which affected hi... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...n and daughter of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ...f the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 d...
6: ... In 1945, her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where t...
8: ...ucation, and there she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...Selvagem'' (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-co...
5: ...er 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life o...
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
19: *O Mist鲩o do Coelho Pensante (1967) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[ph...
11: ...l of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...icials). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but...
22: ...[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer prog...
3: ...i Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in [[1928]]...
5: ...rom the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators...
7: ... first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-...
12: ... was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]]. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]]...
2: ...[[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[si...
6: ...h she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Web...
8: ..., the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...arilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... [[rock]], [[blues]], [[pop]], [[hip-hop]], [[gospel]], and even [[opera]], The state of [[Michigan]] ...
6: ...ost notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jaz...
8: ...[[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they j...
10: ...uble LP of live gospel music recorded in a Los Angeles Baptist church. Surprisingly she never made it ...
12: ...s era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You"... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...mb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
6: ...l in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroines, and in ...
8: ...f their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...er]] documentary ''Monterey Pop'' captured [[Cass Elliott]] in the crowd silently mouthing "Wow, that'... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...sy, especially in the United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in ...
3: ...pularity by appearing in [[Paul Simon]]'s ''[[Graceland]]'' tour. Shortly thereafter she published her... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...e Barrow''') were famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United States]] during the [[Grea...
9: '''Bonnie Elizabeth Parker''' was born [[October 1]], [[1910]]...
15: ...exas|Ellis County]], Texas, near [[Telico, Texas|Telico]] (just south of [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]]). He...
19: ...o her brother's house and meets a charming young fellow. Nobody thought it was anything special. Nobod...
21: == Prison and release == - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ilms in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (193...
5: ...for Best Actress with her performance in ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive...
7: ... children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
11: ...an]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and ca...
15: ...ni-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about [[Israeli]] [[prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]]. - Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
4: ...terpiece ''[[Belle de Jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]], 1967), and the Franco-English production ''[[Repulsion...
8: ...n 1972), by her four-year relationship with [[Marcello Mastroianni]]. She has been married once, from ...
17: *1982 - ''Hôtel des Amériques''
20: ===Filmography (selected)===
33: * ''[[Belle de jour]]'' ([[Luis Buñuel]]), (1967) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ..., of which she won four. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nom...
5: ...ore, and as a result the Hepburn children became well-versed in social and political issues. Once a v...
7: ...s such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ...n a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepb...
21: ...pdate of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excellent reviews. Hepburn became the talk of New York...
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