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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fr...
7: ...a about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice paddy]] agriculture ...
11: ...]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chi...
14: ...e of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Followi...
15: ..._ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipa... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-19...
52: ...m Abdo|Abdo, Hussam]], (born 1989), Palestine suicide bomber
66: *[[John Jacob Abel|Abel, John Jacob]] (1857-1938), pharmacologist
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet
114: ...(circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: *[[John A. M. Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]] - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
15: ...States|Vice President]] [[Charles Curtis]] to preside over the Senate she took advantage of the situat...
17: In [[1938]] she ran again for reelection against [[John L. ... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
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19: |[[July 21]], [[1938]]
22: |[[Miami, Florida]]
27: ...nominated by [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]...
32: ...], where she majored in [[chemistry]], became president of the [[Women's Self Government Association]]... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...verty-stricken [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she al...
9: ... first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for viola...
11: ...Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstr...
13: ...gislation for Birth Control and served as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth c...
15: ... of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federa... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...erated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separate...
20: ...[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA)
34: * [[3318 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ... achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature...
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither...
14: ...k values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
19: ...Passion of Ayn Rand'', Ayn Rand's first name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer wh...
22: ...[[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
5: In [[1937]] and [[1938]] she was a [[test pilot]] for [[Gwinn Air Car Co... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
16: ...933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]].
18: ...]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison in [[1938]].
20: ...941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidlington near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
2: ...[[September 23]], [[1865]] – [[April 7]], [[1938]]) was a French [[painter]].
8: ...]] Renoir painted her portrait again as ''Girl Braiding Her Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars o...
14: ... colors. She was, however, best known for her candid female nudes.
18: ...onship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills t...
24: ...[Roman Catholic Church|good Catholic]]" cats on Fridays. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistent...
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English...
13: ...he Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions r...
15: ...], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I a...
17: [[Hermione Lee]]'s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, u... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...ty, and in 1938 she flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
8: ...server Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...itted with a cockpit in order to be used during gliding tests, dropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bombe...
12: ... for Nazi commanders to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She a... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basi...
9: ...tion at King's, but before leaving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately,...
12: ...informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fi...
15: ...e 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ...n|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, wh...
12: ...yed her role ever since she left Germany. Some said also that Siegbahn had worked against her to the ...
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is name... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ...m, but he forbade her: "[[John 20:17|17]] Jesus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet a...
12: ...pts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and [[1983]], but as early as the [[Third centu...
14: ...red, how shall we be spared?" And Mary Magdalene bids them take heart: "Let us rather praise his great...
18: ... this. For certainly these teachings are of other ideas."
20: ...enly? Are we to turn back and all listen to her? Did he prefer her to us?" - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...f these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academ...
13: ...38 kills) under Tamara Kazarinova and Aleksandr Gridnev. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric ...
11: ...Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, t...
26: Krystyna now spent an appreciable hiatus, sidelined from substantial action. Her situation wou...
30: ... [[Gestapo]]. Krystyna — under the assumed identity of "Pauline Armand" — parachuted into...
34: ...she and her comrades had made good their escape, did it hit home: "What have I done! They could have... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...and when she returned fascinated by them, she confidentially approached [[Arnold Fanck]], the director...
7: ...'', a [[documentary film]] glorifying Hitler and widely regarded as one of the most effective pieces o...
9: ...] in the [[1936 Summer Olympics|Olympics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became...
13: ...;a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
19: ... Impressions]]''), an idealized movie <!-- it was idealized, not documentary --> of life in the oceans...
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