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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ell as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese c...
7: ... craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the ...
11: ...ou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...ou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|C...
18: ...0 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have been alleged ... - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...r him, ever actually existed: in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "Ki...
7: ... [[Roman Emperor]] [[Anthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little,...
9: ...storical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason for...
13: ...thought argue that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the f...
17: ==Earliest traditions of Arthur== - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
39: *[[Bryan Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
12: ...rd Aiken|Aiken, Howard]], (1900-1973), computing pioneer
19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] play...
23: *[[Airto]], (born 1951), [[percussion]]ist - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...cial portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden J...
9: ...f Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions since the death of her father, [[George VI of t...
11: ...in the other [[personal union|personal union]] nations of which she is or was Head of State. She is ma...
17: ...f succession to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle,...
19: ===Education=== - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
27: | '''[[Profession]]:'''
40: ...e [[Johns Hopkins SAIS|School of Advanced International Studies]] at [[Johns Hopkins University]], rec...
42: ...re she was responsible for foreign policy legislation. From [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief ...
44: ... Institution]] following an international competition in which she wrote about the
47: ...search in developments and trends in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...ed and studied in the [[United States]] between [[1959]] and [[1970]].
4: ...ections. She graduated from the School of International Service at [[American University]] ([[Washingt...
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), sh...
10: ...982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, so...
12: ...r_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]). - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
5: |'''Period in Office:'''
27: ...er vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellation that stuck.
29: ...elations, Thatcher maintained the "[[special relationship]]" with the [[United States]], and formed a ...
31: ...lth inequalities. However from the mid 1980s a period of sustained economic growth occured that led to...
33: ...use of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...rmany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising ...
10: ...er fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]],...
12: ...ts in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament foc...
14: ...tions under [[socialism]], which later caused tensions with [[Vladimir Lenin]].
16: ...rging with Lithuania's social democratic organisation. Despite living in Germany for most of her adult... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the public ...
7: ...cene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control...
11: ...basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual f...
13: ...27, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
8:
10: ...1959 to 1965, Allende worked with the [[United Nations]]' [[FAO]] in [[Santiago, Chile|Santiago]], and...
12: ...''. She also worked in Chilean television production for channels 7 and 13.
14: ...ere, she worked for the Caracas newspaper ''El Nacional'' and as a teacher in a secondary school. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
7: ... Song]]''. She was also the screenwriter of the [[1959]] French film ''[[Hiroshima mon amour]]'', which ...
9: ... rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
3: ...and Countess of Champagne, though this identification is far from certain.
5: ==Bibliography==
9: ...Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881
10: ...es Lais de Marie de France''. Paris: Honore頃hampion. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...Virginia Woolf]], who greatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond S...
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
8: ...several larger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloon]] cabl...
12: ...s to join together in mass suicide when it was obvious that the war was over. She also hoped to fly ou...
16: ...tsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (and was the only woman who compete...
18: In [[1959]] she was invited to India by the Indian Prime Mi... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear physics]].
4: ...Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of physics and his kn...
8: ...[[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger...
10: ...], and [[Eugene Wigner]] together jumped into action, persuading [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], who ha...
12: ... She was honored as "Woman of the Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...pera]] [[singer]] of the post-[[World War II]] period. She combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] techni...
5: ...] in ''[[La Gioconda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subseque...
7: ...] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher register t...
11: ...r he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The relationship ended nine years later, when Onassis left Ca...
13: ...llas spent her last years living largely in isolation in [[Paris]], and died in 1977 from a heart atta... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ... for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]...
10: ...certs were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able t...
12: ...by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pab...
14: ...[[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of...
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