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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...arian-based Chinese an advantage over neighboring nomadic and mountain-dwelling cultures. The developm...
7: ...and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]...
14: ...torical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiographer of the [[2nd century ...
18: ...aracter]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle...
24: ...he early Zhou (successor state of the Shang), is known to have existed at the same time as the Shang. - Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
3: ...nd''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[physician]], and an int...
5: ...er February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having 8 female ministers...
9: ...rbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[1992]].
11: ... a [http://www.cmhealth.org Commission on Macroeconomics and Health] - chaired by [[Jeffrey Sachs]] - ...
20: ...st of Norwegian Prime Ministers|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1981 | after=[[K岥 Willoch]]}} - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
16: |[[November 14]], [[1954]]
27: '''Condoleezza "Condi" Rice''' (born [[November 14]] [[1954]]), is the second [[United Stat...
29: ...[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in ...
34: ...olumbia University]], writes, "Birmingham had one notably rich black family, the Gastons, who were in ...
37: ...s non-minorities [http://www.racematters.org/lessononlifecondoleezzarice.htm]. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: '''Madalyn Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) wa...
4: ...d. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
7: ...ible]] readings at Baltimore public schools. In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abi...
9: ...de movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and...
13: ...She expelled members of American Atheists who did not conform to her ideas of how atheists should beha... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
9: ...ine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] thr...
12: ...nize her lectures in ways that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this tim...
32: * ''Marilyn: Norma Jean'' (1986) - Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
4: ...to many languages. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 millio...
8: ...tates|American]] private school, and while in Lebanon a [[United Kingdom|British]] private school in [...
10: ...ewhere in Europe. Her daughter Paula was born in 1963. In 1966, Allende returned to Chile, and her so...
16: ...e starred [[Jeremy Irons]], [[Meryl Streep]], [[Winona Ryder]], [[Glenn Close]] and [[Antonio Banderas... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...nd in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living...
9: ...ly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the p...
26: * ''Ehrengard'' (posthumous 1963, USA)
34: ...18 Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...e Sarraute''', born [[July 18]], [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] i...
4: ...olf]], who greatly affected her conception of the novel. In [[1925]], she married Raymond Sarraute, a ...
6: ...e 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: ...r women preceded her: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both f...
5: ... at [[Westlake School for Girls]] in Los Angeles (now [[Harvard-Westlake School]]). She initially atte... - Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
5: ...a Solov'yova]], [[Zhanna Yerkina]], [[Valentina Ponomareva]], and Tereshkova.
7: ...d woman, [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut gro...
11: ...birth to their daughter Elena in [[1964]], who is now a doctor. They divorced in [[1982]], though thei... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...e in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]...
5: ...s work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. H...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there...
9: ...many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more v... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|Fre...
7: ...t, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored h...
13: She was so well-known and popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who...
15: ... she went through six marriages, some legal, some not. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Lo... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever...
6: ...n to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to come.
8: ...went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ... notable covers of songs by [[The Beatles]] ("Eleanor Rigby"), [[The Band]] ("[[The Weight]]"), [[Simo...
14: ...1970s, her music mellowed slightly, though losing nothing of its power, and she continued the hugely s... - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
9: In the early 1980s Gubaidulina became better known abroad through [[Gidon Kremer]]'s championing o...
15: ...ife. Life divides man into many pieces...There is no weightier occupation than the recomposition of sp...
18: * Quintet for piano, two violins, viola, and violoncello (1957)
20: *''Musical Toys'' fourteen piano pieces for children (1969) - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
6: ...xas for [[San Francisco]] in [[1963]], lived in [[North Beach]] and in [[Haight-Ashbury]]. For a while...
8: ...Holding Company]], a band that was gaining some renown among the nascent [[hippie]] community in [[Hai...
16: ...[[The Dick Cavett Show]] in [[1970]], where she announced that she would attend her 10-year high schoo...
24: Janis Joplin is now remembered best for her powerful, distinctive vo...
26: ...fame continued to grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest u... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...sically trained, Amos’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that ...
7: ...y the time she reached high school, she was well known in the DC area. During her years at [[Richard M...
10: ...commercial (for which role she beat out a then-unknown [[Sarah Jessica Parker]]). After playing a bar ...
13: ...e rejected on the grounds that the "girl and a piano thing" wasn't going to sell. Extensively re-worke...
16: ...ich featured the vocal contribution of [[Trent Reznor]] of [[Nine Inch Nails]]. The [[Australia]]n ed... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
3: '''Phoolan Devi''' ([[10 August]] [[1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Quee...
7: She became known as the "Bandit Queen" who fought authority with...
9: ...l with her that she and members of her gang would not face the [[death penalty]]. As a part of this ar... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...[September 5]] [[1997]]) was an internationally renowned and controversial [[Catholic]] [[nun]] and fo...
6: ...[[Bharat Ratna]] in [[1980]]. She was made an [[Honorary Citizen of the United States]] in [[1996]] (o...
9: ...[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] province of [[Kosovo]] (now [[Skopje]] in the [[Republic of Macedonia]]), wh...
11: Little is known of Teresa's early life except from her own remi...
13: ... there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] and [[Th鲨se de Lisieux...
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