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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
3: ...reer in the Movement for the Social Evolution of Black Africa (MɓAN), the country's only legal politi...
5: ...lf as emperor. When Domitien openly rejected the plans, she was promptly fired and her cabinet was dis... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
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2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
10: |[[James Callaghan]]
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
18: |'''Place of Birth:''' - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Feder...
6: ...revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To B...
13: ...ion of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she f...
18: ...rison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployme...
21: ...ral weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others with ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]...
13: ... House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), ...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...th in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in ...
5: ...ish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the...
7: ... continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to aba...
15: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...and her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction bot...
19: ...o has a quotation from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name R...
22: ...e The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...ctober 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n o...
4: ...[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ... [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated wi...
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... [[Columbia University]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 M...
24: ...ative [[United States]] organization) recently declared ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' the "worst book of ...
26: ...having engaged in casual sex as young women, and claimed that they had lied to Mead.
28: ... Anthropological Association]] passed a motion declaring Freeman's ''Margaret Mead and Samoa'' "poorly...
33: ...ksapmin, West Sepik Province, a more sparsely populated area. Cultural patterns there, were different ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
27: ... Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[Echo Park, Los...
29: ...nt. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance and her unashamed use of low-key sex appe...
31: ...is faith, incorporating demonstrations of [[glossolalia|speaking-in-tongues]] and [[faith healing]] in...
33: ... of worship. These traits also increased her popularity. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
5: ... "had no future at all as a performer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her broth...
7: ...any small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after li...
9: ...year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from th... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...ave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk...
12: ...at Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was f...
17: ...27]]). The latter two she starred in with the popular leading man [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]...
19: ...lm|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice with [[Swedish language|Swedish]] accent was heard on screen for th...
21: ...ely, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the ad... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...e first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...here he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to dir...
10: ...tional Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbr...
14: ...;8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
1: ...athyroidglands.png|thumb|right|Human parathyroid glands]]
3: ...hormone]]. Most often there are four parathyroid glands but have been known to number six or eight.
6: There are two types of cells in the parathyroid glands [[parathyroid chief cell]]s and [[oxyphil cell...
9: ... a very narrow range so that the nervous and muscular systems can function properly.
12: ...hyseal chondroplasia]] and [[Blomstrand's chondroplasia]].
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