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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...pril 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[physician]], and an international lead...
5: ...d Master of Public Health at the [[Harvard University]] in [[1965]]. She was Norwegian Minister for En...
7: ...]] provided the momentum for the 1992 [[Earth Summit]] / [[UNCED]], that was headed by [[Maurice Stron...
11: ...alth Organization]] in May [[1998]]. In this capacity, Dr. Brundtland adopted a far-reaching approach ...
13: ...rded the [[Karlspreis|Charlemagne Prize]] of the city of [[Aachen]]. - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...e]] in the administration of [[President of the United States|President]] [[George W. Bush]]. She is t...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[Ame...
4: ...graphy]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair with William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a child (Will...
7: ...er and Bible-reading at public schools in the [[United States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[196...
9: ... | First Amendment]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on...
11: ... [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...eground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Fl... - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
1: ...of [[Salvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
4: ... (born [[August 2]], [[1942]]) is a [[Chile]]an writer whose books have been translated into many lang...
6: ... her parents separated, and her mother relocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived ...
8: ...school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [[Beirut]]. She returned ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...s]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First Worl...
7: ...ed a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in...
9: ...tions of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym ...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphi...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...e United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...s, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n origin.
4: ...it her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ...aude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]]
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...lentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet ...
5: ...ng research in [[astrophysics]], [[general relativity]], and [[free-electron laser physics]]. She late...
7: ...tly she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]].
19: ..._level2/ride.html And an address if you want to write to her.] - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
7: ...ok 19 years until the second woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in...
9: ...n the [[Central Committee of the CPSU|Central Committee of the Communist Party]]. In [[1997]] she was ...
11: On [[November 3]] [[1963]] she married fellow cosmonaut [[Andrian Nikolaye... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...tant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...ed a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]...
7: ... like the Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described t...
9: ...other. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go clock...
11: ...d as saying, "winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work." - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ....JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...e Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ...] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing ...
7: ...d the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ...he most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940...
2: ...urity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]...
6: ...You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Ti...
8: ...band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...oice to be a natural wonder. She has won 16 competitive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards fr...
6: ...ular songs, most notably ''"Rock-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted...
8: ...ntic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...h her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
5: ...ing|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exa...
7: ...d Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Ar...
9: ...T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]''.
11: ...nternationale Bachakademie Stuttgart project to write a piece for the Passion 2000 project in commemor... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...usic|soul]] singer and occasional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[albu...
4: ...here, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...oet]]s. She left Texas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbu...
8: ...ss of their early singles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
10: ...ances and together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...ared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
7: ...)|Baltimore]]'' with her brother Mike for a competition involving the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This song...
10: ...buted to a band called "Tess Makes Good" with "additional vocals by Ellen Amos".
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...ter, it was released in America to breakthrough critical success. The accompanying singles were "Me an... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: ...t Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turned-politician.
5: ...n short order, she had accumulated her own gang, with herself as the leader.
7: ...known as the "Bandit Queen" who fought authority with knife and gun, and was often popularly regarded ...
9: ...dira Gandhi]] and the police finally made a deal with her that she and members of her gang would not f...
11: ... organizing among themselves and becoming more politically active; Devi was thus tremendously symbolic... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ... [[nun]] and founder of the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcu...
6: ...80]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (one of only six). She was...
9: ...though most Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of their native Macedonia are [[Macedonian Ortho...
11: ...Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a mission in [[Calcutta]].
13: ...al vows in May [[1937]], acquiring the religious title ''Mother Teresa''.
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