Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
71: *[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: ...Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
35: ...nnish theologian & scholar and creator of written Finnish language
50: ...ilio]], (1869-1964), [[Philippines]] independence fighter - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...tance Georgine Markiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[natio...
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
10: ...olleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish...
12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
14: ...e 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] asked the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] to answer...
5: ...Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
6: ...rryat Parlby]] (farm women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
8: ...Kinney|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]],...
11: ...of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to the Senate; and ... every Person so ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support ...
7: ...ly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] ...
9: ... and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obscenity laws by sending birth control infor...
13: ... many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
19: ...married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]...
25: She became the first American woman to receive French military hono... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[Baptist]] church. She moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], o...
5: ... [[1971]]; when she returned, she made one of her final television appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch...
35: ... on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ... her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab ...
12: ...[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics agree that her acting was ...
14: ...vertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scar...
16: ...onders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a...
20: ...performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New York Screen Critics Award.... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...n a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling'')....
12: ...ationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]],...
17: ...nd ''[[Love (1927 movie)|Love]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]). The latter two she starred in with the popula...
19: ...he first time in ''[[Anna Christie]]'' ([[1930 in film|1930]]), which was publicized with the slogan "... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...69]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and actress.
4: ...er Olympics]]. She had earlier placed eighth in a field of eight at the [[1924 Winter Olympics]], at t...
6: ...nships in [[1927]] at the age of fifteen, and her first [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] gold medal the follo...
8: ...he short skirt costume in figure skating, and the first to make use of dance [[choreographer|choreogra...
10: ...]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became one of the wealt... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...iva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internationa...
3: ... the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La D...
8: ...r her to compete in tennis and gain strength. Her first try at the game was in 1910, when she played o...
10: ...r her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in sports|1914]] French Champion...
14: ...g in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Pansy (10101 bytes)
34: ...]]s that normally have two-year life cycles. The first year they only produce greenery; they bear flo...
51: 2 parts finely ground copper sulphate
66: Transmitted by aphids. Fine yellow veining on young leaves, stunted growth,...
113: ==Name Origin and Significance==
117: .... In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, there is a [[fictional character|character]] named [[Pansy Parkin... - Carpet (15753 bytes)
1: ...ing of trade routes in the 17th century were significant numbers of [[Persian rug]]s introduced to Wes...
3: ...d rug. The former indicates a covering that is affixed to a floor and the latter a floor covering tha...
16: ...orming a knot. Because of the loom structure only five colors can be used to create the design. Moquet...
34: ...rtical red stripe near the hoist side, containing five carpet guls (designs used in producing rugs).
39: ... was excavated by [[Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko]] in 1927 from a Siberian burial ground where it had been p...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).