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  1. 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.
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
    14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
    15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
    16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
    19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]].
  3. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    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)
    47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician
  4. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    3: ...of York|Duchess of York]]. In her own right she held the title of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingd...
    5: ...wels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
    9: ...ther was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the young...
    11: ...velled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for...
    13: ... fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived ...
  5. Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
    7: ...r of India]]. They were [[marriage|married]] in [[1968]], after which she took up residence in India. Th...
    11: ...e the [[1998]] Lok Sabha elections, assuming the helm of the Congress Party. With the charisma of the ...
    13: ...he [[Indian general election, 2004|2004 Lok Sabha election]]. On [[May 16]] she was unanimously voted ...
    15: ...Party]], which had been voted out of power in the elections, threatened to launch a nationwide agitati...
  6. Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
    3: ...w partner, Dr. [[Pentti Araj䲶i]], after she was elected president.
    9: *Member of the Helsinki City Council [[1977]]–[[1996]]
    18: ...f Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She served as the social secretary and organis...
    20: ...the minister of justice and in [[1995]] until her election as the president she served as the minister...
    24: ... to win the election. In the previous elections [[Elisabeth Rehn]] came very close to victory. Halonen...
  7. Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''Eine t?...
    2: '''Petra Karin Kelly''' ([[November 29]], [[1947]] – [[October...
    4: ...y]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of Internat...
    6: ...ng at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in nume...
    8: Petra Kelly was one of the founders in [[1979]] of ''Die Gr...
  8. 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.
  9. Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
    2: ...ure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous fo...
    10: ...ping in this boycott, Rosa Parks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil ri...
    12: In [[1956]] Parks's case ultimately resulted in [[Supreme Court of the United States...
    17: ...sal, some have questioned some of the more mythic elements of her story.
    23: ...That is, it was not a matter of protest on any level when she sat down; the protest was in her refusal...
  10. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...ere she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood G...
    4: ...he [[ghost story]]. Some critics say her first novel, ''[[The Edible Woman]]'', which examined female ...
    6: ... [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
    8: ...an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
    10: ...e Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'', champi...
  11. 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)
  12. 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]]).
  13. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    2: ...([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who ...
    4: ... Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of ph...
    6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
    8: ...the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named...
    10: ...celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan...
  14. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
    3: '''Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] ...
    9: ...], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]&ndash;[[1988]]), a...
    13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canad...
  15. 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.
  16. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    2: ... [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest...
    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: ...Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
    12: ... category was added to the [[Grammy Award]]s in [[1968]], she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight ...
  17. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    1: ...s a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
    5: ...er studies in [[Soviet]] Russia, her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternat...
    7: ...reja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomo...
    9: ...orium]]''. She later composed a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual ma...
    15: * "I am a religious person...and by 'religion' I mean re-ligio, the re-tying of a bond...r...
  18. 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: ...ally heavy" during Joplin's performance.) Their [[1968]] album ''[[Cheap Thrills]]'' featured more raw e...
  19. Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
    1: ...es Now.jpg|frame|right|Self portrait by Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
    3: '''Joni Mitchell, [[Order of Canada|CC]]''' (born '''Roberta Joan...
    5: ...sly "poetic", her songs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range...
    7: ...rst two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
    9: ...Also of interest, "For Free" is the first of Mitchell's many songs focusing on the dichotomy between t...
  20. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    3: ... to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
    7: ... her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
    10: ...lled "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
    13: ...K, it went straight to #1. A month later, it was released in America to breakthrough critical success....
    16: ...n of B-Sides including a cover of the [[Joni Mitchell]] song "A Case of You".

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