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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: *[[Abd-ar-rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...y 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States...
7: ...] where she cared for their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political ca...
9: ...he [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca ...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built a reputation as an honest and si... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
27: ... that post. She was nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[F...
30: ...en and then became an investigative reporter for the Miami News. Janet Reno has three younger siblings...
32: ...Women's Self Government Association]], and earned her room and board.
34: ...ad difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a woman. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ng the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...tricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, followed in subsequent years by a...
7: ...tock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and de...
9: ...tates Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ...her Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: ...sexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...s three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [...
11: ...nce]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...is]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
3: ...on, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ...testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ...commander. In [[1943]] the squadron merged with the
8: [[Women?s Flying Training Detachment]] to become the
9: ...ancy was named executive director of the WASP at the age of 28. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ... flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...nce Museum_(London)|Science Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of th...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] i...
12: ...e Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
4: ...e [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
6: ...e:ValadonSuzanne BlueRoom.jpg|thumb|300px|left|''The Blue Room''. ([[1923]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]].]]
8: ...] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangover''.
10: ...eceived acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...igure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...y and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as ...
11: ...language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influen...
13: ...he art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneo... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: ...a_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
2: ...pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
4: ...n a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...e flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...ombined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured sev... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruse...
5: ...ttle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...f her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...th her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...ictor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
10: ...in D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ... (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: ...n shore of the [[Lake of Tiberias]]. The life of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...to them, "I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."'"
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala...
10: ==The ''Gospel of Mary''== - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three ...
5: ...]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
7: ...k]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a strai...
9: ... award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...ter their training, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows: - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... and success have been credited with influencing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's p...
7: ...ki|Jerzy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [...
11: ...Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
13: ...he Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...d War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
5: ...ity to direct ''[[The Blue Light]]'' she took it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ... available on [[DVD]]. It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
9: ...he first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the stadium crowd.
11: ...:Egzekucja.jpg|thumb|right|150px|22 Jews digging their graves, picture by Leni Riefenstahl]]
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