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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugue...
24: *[[William Baffin]], ([[1584]]-[[1622]])
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
28: ... Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
18: # [[William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]] (1907-1966) - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. ...
7: ... [[India]] for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the...
9: ...lected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henr...
13: Soon after Besant's inheritance of the presidency, in [[1... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: After her family moved to [[Warsaw]], Rosa attended ...
10: ...y. Her specialised subjects were ''Staatswissenschaft'' (the science of [[form of government|forms of ...
25: ... Luxemburg kept up her political activities; in [[1907]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' ...
34: ...n]]s. Luxemburg herself took on the name "Junius" after [[Lucius Junius Brutus]], who was said to have...
38: ... as rulers of the new republic alongside the SPD, after the abdication of the [[Wilhelm II of Germany|... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...or her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
7: ...nya where they operated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, th...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc...
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc...
20: * ''[[Out of Africa]]'' (1937 in Denmark and England, 1938 in USA... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...h Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and th...
5: ...Bohemianism|Bohemian]] community she went to the caf頧'La Rotond'' where the man at the next table in...
7: ... Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another f...
13: ...ts that formed the area's epicentre. Home of the caf頬ife in Montparnasse, it was Nina Hamnett's favo...
17: ...though she won the case, the situation profoundly affected her for the remainder of her life. [[Alcoho... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
7: ...g for stardom, and she landed a leading role in a 1907 [[Broadway]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', w...
9: ...[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public...
13: ...ful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[Janu...
29: ...nced [[Ernst Lubitsch]] to direct her next film. After considering alternatives, they settle on ''[[R...
38: ...fe, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents.... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...[[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educ...
13: ...et her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. Du...
27: ...ard Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his...
29: After the war, Gertrude's status in Paris grew when ...
34: After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write i... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[...
10: After Austria was annexed by Germany in [[1938]], Me... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
8: She received her doctorate in [[1907]] under [[Paul Gordan]], and rapidly built a worl...
10: her admission as a ''[[Privatdozent]].'' After all, the university senate is not a bathhouse.... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
9: In 1871 she married James G. S. Anderson (d. 1907), a London shipowner, but did not give up her pra... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...ombaia' in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], she was named after the city of her birth, as was her older sister...
27: ... On [[October 21]], [[1854]], Nightingale and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightin...
31: ...ers being badly cared for by overworked medical staff in the face of official indifference. [[Medicine...
35: ...nd curtains. The carriage was returned to England after the war and subsequently given to the Nighting...
39: ... in Crimea earned her the everlasting respect and affection of the common soldier. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
15: ...nts, remained active with the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this ...
19: ...m depression]] and several serious health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience ...
51: ...Beach]] with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared.
58: About a month after the disappearance, McPherson's mother, Minnie ... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
7: ...], in [[1865]]; she trained as a [[nurse]]. In [[1907]], she was appointed matron of the [[Berkendael I...
9: ...bed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]].
11: After the war Edith Cavell was reburied in the groun... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...ad]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: '''Katharine Houghton Hepburn''' ([[May 12]], [[1907]] – [[June 29]], [[2003]]) was an iconic st...
5: ...children, at their parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various to...
10: ...ma -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...main lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
21: ...e director could not find anyone to replace her. After another summer of stock companies, in [[1932]]... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
6: ...h to earn regular spots for the ensuing six years after which a 21-year-old May Irwin set out on her o...
8: ... time as "Coon Shouting" in which she performed [[African American]] influenced songs. In the 1895 [[...
10: ...y," with music written by [[George M. Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same ...
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