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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
71: *[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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4: *[[Pope Agapetus I|Agapetus I, Pope]], (pope 535-536)
5: *[[Pope Agapetus II|Agapetus II, Pope]], (pope 946-955)
6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: ...jit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
4: ...ster, Eva Gore-Booth, were close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house,...
6: ...involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist movemen...
8: ...] her husband moved to the [[Ukraine]] and never returned. Shortly thereafter she joined [[James Conno...
12: ...egan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Irish Minister for Community, Rural and... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
6: ...m women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
9: *[[Henrietta Muir Edwards]] (an advocate for working women a...
11: Specifically the question was whether Section 24 of the [[British North America Act]...
20: ...for the British Empire as a whole, this decision set a precedent for jurisdictions over the world. How... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
13: ...ical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Populatio... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became on...
9: ...cademy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series o...
11: ...film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving ...
13: ...rried Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and ...
25: ...tion]]" as a part of [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actre... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...h; [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...cmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's...
10: ...aughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...f was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbur...
9: ...led as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], ...
13: ...imultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative en...
15: ...ur life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ...anon and the future of women in education and society. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...
17: ...cism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe.... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o...
3: ... stock enough of it to meet demand. Jackson rocketed to fame in the US, and soon after in [[Europe]]...
5: ...h a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appear... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...ometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the form...
9: '''Bonnie Elizabeth Parker''' was born [[October 1]], [[1910]], in [...
11: ...usually limited to logistics support. At only 4 feet 10 inches, she was a stalwart and loyal companion...
15: ...pite holding down "square" jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, burgled stor...
17: == Meeting == - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his jun...
9: ...r defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
15: ...e so occupied in [[New York City|New York]], she met her second husband, Harold Stewart McPherson, an ...
23: ...ld give sermons through a bullhorn. On the road between sermons, she would sit in the back seat typin... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ny|German]] [[filmmaker]] renowned for her [[aesthetics]] and advances in film technique. Her most fam...
5: ...in film|bergfilme]], presenting herself as an athletic, adventuresome young woman with sex appeal sugg...
7: ...irected a [[short film]] about a [[Nazi]] party meeting. Hitler then asked her to film the Nazi Party ...
9: ...]'', a film celebrated for its technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways...
13: ...using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in court. ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ... Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]...
8: ...her. He cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] a... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
6: ...nsecutive World Figure Skating Championships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic ...
10: ...published in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello...
12: ..., and finally the shipowner [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...neLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labelled the ''[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]...
3: ...and Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and o...
8: ... to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down ...
10: ...topped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on...
14: ...; her first on [[grass court|grass]] — and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Do... - Pansy (10101 bytes)
2: ...urple, white, and yellow pansies]] | caption = 5-petaled pansies}}
9: {{Taxobox genus entry | taxon = ''[[Violet (plant)|Viola]]''}}
17: ...the cultivated Pansy, to the [[violet (plant)|violet]] genus ''[[Viola (plant)|Viola]]''. One or two ...
20: ... varieties became very popular. By 1835, 400 varieties were available. By 1841 the pansy had become ...
28: ...warm climes. They are often cultivated with [[sweet alyssum]] as they produce a pleasing colour combi... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...y by the Moors. The Crusades brought Turkish carpets to all of Europe, where they were primarily hung...
3: ...ries a distinction is made between carpet (or carpeting) and rug. The former indicates a covering tha...
5: [[Image:Carpet.png|350px|thumb|Contemporary Afghan Rug]]
7: == Carpet types ==
8: ...et 1.jpg|thumb|250px|Swatches of machine-made carpet]]
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