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- China (38909 bytes)
1: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the ...
5: ...ntury|nineteenth]] and early [[20th century|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, an...
7: ...) government was forced to flee the mainland and retreat to Taiwan, which it had governed since the en...
18: ...overns [[Inner Mongolia]], [[Xinjiang]], and [[Tibet]], and the ROC now governs [[Taiwan]] (also claim...
21: ...the capital or imperial domain. The ''[[Book of Poetry]]'' explicitly gives this definition. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
41: *[[Russ Abbott|Abbott, Russ]], (born 1947), British comedian
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
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: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
17: *[[Kathy Acker|Acker, Kathy]], (1947-1997), author
51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[...
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
55: ...John Coolidge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
19: Despite this setback, Queen Victoria still favoured Princess May a...
28: ...2]]<td> married [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
6: ...negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rival...
8: ...married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They had two sons, Alexander and Ki...
10: She returned to Myanmar in [[1988]] to care for her ailin...
16: ...an entry visa. Aung remained in Burma, and never met her husband again. He died in March [[1999]]. She...
18: ...use arrest. On [[May 6]], [[2002]], following secret confidence-building negotiations led by the [[Uni... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
19: | [[March 10]], [[1947]]
31: ...n the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...A., LL.B.) and studied towards a doctorate in Soviet Government at the [[London School of Economics]].
45: ...rom a relatively unknown [[Cabinet of Canada|cabinet member]] to [[Prime Minister of Canada]] came as ...
47: ...h the same attitudes and positions of her widely detested predecessor epitomised in the activist chant... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
1: [[Image:Kelly&Bastian.jpg|220px|thumb|Petra Kelly on the cover of [[Alice Schwarzer]]'s ''E...
2: ..., and lived and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
8: ...1979]] of ''Die Gr?, the [[German Green Party]]. Between [[1983]] and [[1990]], she was a member of th...
12: ...ly unexpected and occurred without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [...
14: ... and presents, since [[1998]], the international Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...e plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, pub...
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, US... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - 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.... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...humb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)...
5: ...nda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and...
7: ...reo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher regist...
9: ...but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...ced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', at a party given in he... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Soe_sansom2.jpg|frame|Odette Sansom while in service of the SOE]]
3: '''Odette Sansom''' ([[April 28]], [[1912]] - [[March 13]...
5: ...er]] of the [[Special Operations Executive]] and return to France to work with the [[French Resistance...
7: ...], where she made contact with her supervisor, [[Peter Churchill]]. Using the code name '''Lise''', s...
9: ...Minister [[Winston Churchill]], and that she was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their tre... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Violetteszabo1944.gif|right]]
3: ...bruary 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ...e Bushell''' in [[Paris, France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalise...
7: ...were extremely important to establish bombing targets.
9: ...ation for [[D-Day]]. However, she was eventually betrayed and arrested by the [[Gestapo]], despite put... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...eative Work in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Grand Prix Internationale]] for 16m...
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
24: ...Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, music by Teiji Ito
28: *''Haitian Film Footage'' (1947-55) assembled by Teiji and Cherel Ito as ''Divine... - 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). - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
7: ...gical children (Matthew, Sascha, and Fletcher) together and [[adopted]] three children, Soon-Yi, Lark ...
9: ...rrow]]). They also adopted a son and daughter together. After their separation, Farrow accused Allen...
16: * Farrow made her film debut in a [[1947]] short subject with her famous mother. The short...
24: *''[[Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday]]'' ([[1947]]) (short subject)
30: *''[[Secret Ceremony]]'' ([[1968]])
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