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- China (38909 bytes)
3: ...rs to a number of states and cultures that have existed and are viewed as having succeeded one another...
5: ...wever the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], and the [[Chi...
7: ...[[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...eans "middle (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China at the centre of her known...
16: ...ly and politically distinct from - and as the [[axis mundi]] of surrounding nations; a concept that co... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
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5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
17: *[[Kathy Acker|Acker, Kathy]], (1947-1997), author
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[...
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
7: ...Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|Unite...
9: ...he Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state ...
11: ...is the mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
15: ...yon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]] and his wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named a... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...[[nonviolence|nonviolent]] pro-[[democracy]] activist in [[Burma]]. In [[1990]] she won the the [[Raft...
6: ...negotiated Burma's independence from Britain in [[1947]] and was [[assassination|assassinated]] by rival...
8: ... [[England]], Suu Kyi met and married [[Michael Aris]], a scholar of [[Tibet|Tibetan]] culture. They ...
10: ...ng to mass demonstrations for [[democracy|democratisation]], which were violently suppressed. A new mi...
12: ... San Suu Kyi entered politics to work for democratisation and was put under [[house arrest]] in [[1989... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
19: | [[March 10]], [[1947]]
22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
31: ...ed countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ...eens. She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a d...
35: ...d in political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vancouver Community College]... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...politician, was born in [[G?g]], [[Germany]] in [[1947]], and lived and studied in the [[United States]]...
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]),...
10: ...ng a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."'' (See...
12: ... without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [http://www.motherjones.com...
14: ...l Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ge|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out...
5: ...er younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]...
9: ...eral other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also w...
11: ...on. She had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor ...
19: ... name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...atore|Leonora]] during the next three years. In [[1947]], Callas made her Italian debut at the [[Verona ...
7: ...retations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...h the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed ...
11: ...later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US pr... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ...and return to France to work with the [[French Resistance|French underground]] in [[Nazi]]-occupied Fr...
7: ...e '''Lise''', she brought him funds and acted as his radio operator.
9: ...that she was Peter's wife. The hope was that in this way their treatment would be mitigated.
11: ... She survived the war and testified against the prison guards at a [[1946]] [[war crime]]s trial.
13: ...r imprisonment and she married Peter Churchill in 1947. They were divorced in 1956. - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...abo''', [[George Cross|G.C.]], [[Order of the British Empire|M.B.E.]], [[Croix de Guerre|CdG]] ([[Jun...
5: ...opold Samuel Marks|Leo Marks]], who gave her what is now thought of as the definitive World War II [[P...
7: ...for the Germans were extremely important to establish bombing targets.
9: ... by the [[Gestapo]], despite putting up fierce resistance with her [[Sten]] gun. She was interrogated ...
11: ...ers of the SOE were executed by the Germans: [[Denise Bloch]], [[Cecily Lefort]], and [[Lilian Rolfe]]... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...y [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...fternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film...
8: ...eative Work in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Grand Prix Internationale]] for 16m...
10: ...t, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accomp... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ... by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And beh... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
2: ...f [[film director|director]] [[John Farrow]] and his wife, actress [[Maureen O'Sullivan]].
5: ...the cast and crew. The [[divorce]] came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking...
7: ...opted]] three children, Soon-Yi, Lark Song, and Daisy. They divorced in [[1979]].
9: ...aving somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusations by his open relationship with one of her adopted teenage...
11: ...s active in agencies that encourage adoptions and is a [[UNICEF]] Special Representative. By [[1994]]...
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