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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. - King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...he central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as the "[[Matter of Britain]]." There is disagr...
5: ...] to early [[6th century]], to have been of [[Romano-British]] origin, and to have fought against the ...
7: ...y figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led were [[Br...
11: Another school of thought believes that Arthur is a h...
13: Subscribers to this school of thought argue that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Amb... - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...' in [[Portuguese]]) was most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could hav...
3: ...windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they inaugurate...
5: ... two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. This i...
7: ..., including the isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Ce...
11: ...ope, and slavery in the [[West Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave... - Puritan (15882 bytes)
3: ==Terminology==
4: ...st]]": Puritanism was a movement rather than a denomination.
5: ... members of particular churches or movements, and not by the simple and nebulous term "Puritan."
10: ...l]] supremacy, and they shared, to one degree or another, a belief in the [[priesthood of all believer...
20: ...alist translations and interpolated revolutionary notes. - Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
8: ... of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...ercive tactics (such as crippling the Scottish economy by restricting trade) were used to ensure that ...
17: ...d to send her Catholic books and essays, but made no serious attempt to effect a conversion.
19: ...npopular and despotic James II. Princess Anne did not endeavour to support her father; instead, she qu...
22: ...Princess Anne was then stripped of her guard of honour, and the guards at the royal palaces were forbi... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
5: {{House of Hanover}}
7: ...nasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([[24 May]] [[1819]] – [[22 January]]...
9: ...Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Wi...
12: ...rathearn, like many other sons of George III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son, the [[Ge...
16: ...en's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Rege... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...on of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
11: ..., was the product of [[morganatic marriage]], had no inheritance or wealth, and carried the lower roya...
13: ...cess May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and...
24: <tr bgcolor=cccccc><th>Name<th>Birth<th>Death<th>Notes. - Aung San Suu Kyi (4196 bytes)
4: ...r Freedom of Thought]]. In [[1991]] she won the [[Nobel Peace Prize]].
8: She studied at [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] in the [[United Kingdom]] and at the [[School o...
12: ...influenced by [[Mohandas Gandhi]]'s philosophy of nonviolence, Aung San Suu Kyi entered politics to wo...
14: ...el Peace Prize in the following one. She used the Nobel Peace Prize's [[US$]]1.3 million prize money t...
16: ... husband Michael Aris, a British citizen, was diagnosed with [[prostate cancer]] in [[1997]], the Burm... - Benazir Bhutto (7735 bytes)
3: ... implicated as well, and remained in jail until [[November]] [[2004]].
6: ... to [[Phi Beta Kappa]], and [[Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford]]. She temporarily left Radcliffe for New York Ci...
8: ...as the first Asian woman to be President of the [[Oxford Union]], after the election had to be re-run beca...
13: ...e first open election in more than a decade, on [[November 16]], [[1988]], Benazir's PPP won the singl...
21: ...charges of taking kickbacks. He was released in [[November]] [[2004]] [http://www9.sbs.com.au/theworld... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
24: |'''Retirement honour:'''
27: ...figurehead of a political philosophy that became known as [[Thatcherism]], which involves reduced gove...
31: ...ccured that led to an improvement in Britain's economic performance. Supporters of Margaret Thatcher a...
33: ...ical approach to [[European Union|European]] [[Economic and Monetary Union]]. Her leadership was chall... - Jane Austen (5805 bytes)
3: ...of the writer whose apparently sheltered life did nothing to reduce the stature and drama of her ficti...
5: ...dison's disease]], the cause of which was then unknown. She travelled to [[Winchester, Hampshire|Winch...
7: ...[[Northanger Abbey]]'', pokes fun at the [[Gothic novel]]s of [[Ann Radcliffe]], Austen is most famous...
9: Her novels were fairly well received when they were publ...
12: ...tedly because she did not know how men spoke when not in the presence of women. Some contemporary rea... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ... where she currently lives. She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwoo...
4: ...ttings and atmosphere of her fiction and in her [[non-fiction]] and edited work. She has also been ass...
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually pu...
8: ...nd an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
10: Two of Atwood's novels have been chosen for [[CBC Radio]]'s ''[[Cana... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: ...hat she was raised in [[Normandy]]. Her name is known from a line in one of her published works: ''Ma...
3: ...wn as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldest daughter Mary, Princess of France and C...
9: ...e Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881
10: .... 1983. ''Les Lais de Marie de France''. Paris: Honore頃hampion.
14: *[[Anglo-Norman literature]] - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: Having graduated with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson...
8: ...on [[May 5]] of that year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]]...
16: ...llison, she flew a [[De Havilland Dragon Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]], to ...
18: The Mollisons also flew nonstop in record time to [[India]] in [[1934]] in a...
20: ...g an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidlington near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She died after crashing ... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: [[Image:HodgkinOM20040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|...
7: ...yal Society]]. In [[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallo...
11: ... Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
13: ===Obituary notices=== - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: '''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]], [[1821...
6: ...ristmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Bar...
14: ...ere she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural science in addition to...
17: ...ywhere, and as a [[Christian]] he charged me to honor God and love mankind.''"
21: ...ond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South. In [[1864]] she was appointed by Un... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
2: '''Mary Magdalene''' is described, both in the canonical [[New Testament]] and in the [[New Testament...
6: ...esus said to her, 'Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren...
8: ...ical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
12: ...sen Savior (a designation that dates the original no earlier than the [[Second century | 2nd century]]...
14: ...her discourse with him, which shows [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] influences. - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...he Disibodenberg monastery in Germany. Jutta was enormously popular and acquired so many followers a s...
11: ...degard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to become her lif...
12: ...t kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming... and suddenly I understood...
15: ...f men, I refused for a long time a call to write, not out of stubbornness but out of humility, until w...
17: ...ble to finish her first visionary work Scivias ("Know the Ways of the Lord") and her fame began to spr... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
2: ...mpire|DBE]] (born [[9 December]] [[1934]]) is a renowned [[United Kingdom|British]] stage, film and te...
4: ...[Order of the Companions of Honour|Companion of Honour]]. She has also occasionally directed plays.
11: ...ly spent seasons in repertory in [[Oxford]] and [[Nottingham]]. In [[1961]] she joined the [[Royal Sha...
15: ...trasted with [[Maggie Smith|Dame Maggie Smith]], another British actress of the same generation.
21: * ''[[Mrs. Brown]]'' ([[1997]]; also known as ''Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown'') - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
4: ...wn, North Carolina|Grabtown]], [[Johnston County, North Carolina]], the last of seven children of poor...
6: ...llers (1946 film)|The Killers]]'' did she become known as a [[sex symbol]] and movie star. She marrie...
8: ...the hysterical Miss Judith Fellowes, however, was nominated, albeit in the best supporting actress cat...
10: ...or [[J.R.R. Tolkien]] at [[Oxford University]] in November 1964. Neither was aware of the fame of the...
14: ...thfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
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