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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 ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: ... Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
55: *[[Juan F. Acosta|Acosta, Juan F.]] (1890-1968), Puerto Rican composer
56: *[[Mercedes de Acosta|Acosta, Mercedes de]] (1893-1968) - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
31: ...([[13 December]] [[1906]] – [[27 August]] [[1968]]); and had issue.
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life. - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
7: ...en by her mother-in-law [[Indira Gandhi]]. The couple had two children, [[Rahul Gandhi]] (born [[1970]...
11: ...hiefly the [[Bharatiya Janata Party]]) constantly played up the fact of her foreign birth, her declini...
15: ...was eventually accepted by the lawmakers, despite pleas by members of the Congress party for Gandhi to... - Tarja Halonen (6272 bytes)
3: ... graduated from the [[University of Helsinki]] in 1968 and has a [[Master of Laws]] degree. She married ...
18: ...f Laws]] from the [[University of Helsinki]] in [[1968]]. She served as the social secretary and organis...
26: ...nion]] in the autumn of 1999 was also fresh in people's memory. - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ... F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]] in the [[1968]] US elections. She graduated from the School of ...
10: ...obel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecological concerns ...
12: ...om/mother_jones/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]).
26: ...rg/nv_speaks_to_power.htm online book], almost complete text (also, out of print, published by Matsuna... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
10: ...ort time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
16: ...]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The couple and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in ...
20: ...nity. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the...
28: ...pendence]], I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting do...
40: ...eight months and retired again on [[August 1]], [[1968]]. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...ure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous fo...
16: ==Debated aspects of Parks' story and its place in the civil rights movement==
19: ...[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "tired seamstress." Parks stated in her aut...
21: Also, some accounts downplay her prior involvement with the [[NAACP]] and th... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...College]] in [[Toronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she re...
4: ...ues and concerns, which she examines through multiple genres such as [[science fiction]], [[Southern O...
6: ...ell as [[alliteration]] or [[assonance]] that is split up and put in separate lines to produce an echo...
36: :''[[The Animals in That Country]]'' ([[1968]])
53: :''[[Good Bones and Simple Murders]]'' ([[1994]]) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
20: *A mulher que matou os peixes (1968) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
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 ...
31: ...]], all of which she believed helped foster a crippling culture of resentment towards individual human... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ...([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who ...
4: ...ent to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked t...
10: ... might allow a [[chain reaction]] leading to an explosion. Because this could be used as weapon, and t...
12: ...omen's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named [[meitnerium]] in her hon... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...o work with [[Annie Jump Cannon]] and [[Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorat...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canad...
22: ...0001497.000.html BAAS '''25''' (1993) 1497] (a simple reference to JRASC obituary) --> - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
76: *1968 ''[[30 by Ella]]''
111: ==Samples==
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon" - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest...
10: ...Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Little Prayer"'' in 1968.
12: ... category was added to the [[Grammy Award]]s in [[1968]], she was virtually unchallenged, winning eight ...
18: ...uestions about it. A Time Magazine cover story in 1968 led to a lawsuit from Ted White over allegations ...
46: *[[1968]] ''[[Lady Soul]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: ...]]) is a [[Russia]]n-[[Tatar]] [[composer]] of deeply religious music.
5: ..., her music was labeled "irresponsible" for its exploration of alternate [[musical tuning|tunings]]. S...
19: *''Night in Memphis'' cantata (1968) - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...e:Janis Joplin-In Concert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live ...
2: ...sional [[songwriter]] with a distinctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for ...
4: ... in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and ...
6: ...ovement was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues h...
10: ...together with the Monterey performance, it made Joplin into one of the leading musical stars of the la... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ...garette smoker since the age of nine, which may explain the unique texture to her voice, which was esp...
7: ...albums ''[[Joni Mitchell (Song to a Seagull)]]'' (1968) and ''[[Clouds (album)|Clouds]]'' (1969) were ar...
11: ...ses]]'' (1972), whose title track continued her exploration of the themes of "For Free", sold well, su...
13: ..."). The album was stylistically diverse, with complex vocal harmonies set with African drumming (the ...
15: ...dominated by the lengthy part-improvised "Paprika Plains". The album received mixed reviews: some enj... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...gan studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned ...
10: ...playing by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt ...
20: ...center. In [[1995]], Amos, duetting with [[Robert Plant]], contributed the song "Down by the Seaside"...
30: ..., Amos' first with a full band, was known as the "Plugged '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, th...
33: Next, Amos planned to release a live album. She decided to writ...
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