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- History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qín and ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elisabeth Domitien (1229 bytes)
1: '''Elisabeth Domitien''' (born [[1925]] – died [[26 April]] [[2005]]) was prime m...
5: ...elf as emperor. When Domitien openly rejected the plans, she was promptly fired and her cabinet was di... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
16: |[[13 October]] [[1925]]
18: |'''Place of Birth:'''
27: ...Margaret Hilda Roberts''', (born [[13 October]] [[1925]]) is a [[Politics of the United Kingdom|British ...
31: ..., her policies initially caused large-scale [[unemployment]], especially in the industrial heartlands ...
33: ...At the same time the Conservative Party began to split over her sceptical approach to [[European Union... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n iconic "rebel woman" feminist. However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchis...
6: ...n a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary i...
18: ...read."'' (The statement is a summary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by...
21: ...r several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others...
32: ...upport the [[Bolshevism|Bolshevik]]s despite the split between anarchists and statist communists at th... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...ively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]]... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...en remained in Kenya and continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market i...
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal und... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
19: ...rts in [[1924]] to study screenwriting; in late [[1925]], however, she was granted a [[Visa (document)|v...
22: ...]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] ...
28: ...tlas Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of ... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...k called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. I...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona...
20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
34: *''[[Mrs. Dalloway]]'' ([[1925]])
48: *''The Common Reader'' ([[1925]]) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...ct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]], Mead concen...
14: ...d begun to discuss the problems faced by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolesce...
18: ...tudy among a small group of [[Samoa]]ns -- 600 people -- in which she got to know, lived with, observe...
28: ...the same ethnocentric sexual puritanism as the people Boas and Mead once shocked. In 1983, the [[Ameri...
33: ...e high-population density areas were not, for example, present in the same way in Oksapmin, West Sepik... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensat...
7: ...d a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...been orphaned at an early age, and raised by a couple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a res...
11: ...mage:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ...ised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny),...
7: ...many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after l...
11: ...pressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes ...
24: ... comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among oth...
28: ...sode of ''[[The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour]]'', the couple [[divorce]]d. One of television's greatest marri... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress,...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...e also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything appro...
18: ...h's career stalled in unmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little ...
26: ...y of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphysema]], in December 1968. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
12: When Stiller went to the [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insiste...
23: ... Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). The censors complained about her revealing outfit shown on the movi...
25: ... getting her leading man, [[Laurence Olivier]], replaced on ''[[Queen Christina (film)|Queen Christina...
33: ...ning Garbo's image and making her less exotic, complete with the insertion of a scene in which her cha...
35: ...ion. She withdrew from the entertainment world completely and moved to a secluded life in [[New York C... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...y]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] [[tennis]] player who achieved much success in the French and [...
8: ...where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to di...
10: ...], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broq...
16: ...arms and cut just above the calf, while all other players competed in outfits covering nearly all of t... - Parathyroid gland (1913 bytes)
12: ...physeal chondroplasia]] and [[Blomstrand's chondroplasia]].
14: ... Since hyperparathyroidism was first described in 1925, the symptoms have become known as "[[moan]]s, [[...
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