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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
93: | [[1871]] — [[1878]]
117: | [[1869]] — [[1871]]
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
3: ...r]] of the [[Victorian era]], now best remembered because of his meeting with [[Henry Morton Stanley]]...
6: ...ed, and joined the [[London Missionary Society]], becoming a minister.
8: ... was unable to make inroads into [[South Africa]] because of [[Boer]] opposition. It was during this ...
12: ...ingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ... resigned from the missionary society to which he belonged. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
69: *[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...han that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of the [[United Kingdom of G...
9: ...onarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cob...
12: ...er of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] an...
14: ... her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in ...
16: ...rovision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult.... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...ounded [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Su...
9: Millicent Fawcett was the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female do... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...d took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carrie...
6: ... the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (m...
8: ...death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of t...
12: ...espite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament focused more and more on gaining ...
14: ...Russia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and not for an ind... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...ctions to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the [[Pennsylvania Academ...
8: ...not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned ...
12: ...too bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
14: ...ndow, though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: ...ly|Italian]] [[writer]] whose works won her a [[Nobel Prize for Literature]] in [[1926]].
4: *[http://members.tripod.com/~GraziaDeledda/ETEXT-F.HTM Works on ... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...ge Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[noveli...
5: ...riter of romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public...
8: ... Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extr...
10: ... was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he remained married to her in na...
15: ...nd, as I ended, in falling in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluest... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
8: ...oes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 Gutenberg etext of this book]
13: ...' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367 Gutenberg etext of this book]
14: * ''Folle-Farine'' (1871)
31: ...(1867) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 Gutenberg etext of this book]
34: ... (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13459 Gutenberg etext of this book] - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: ...Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] physician...
5: ...], and the sister of [[Millicent Fawcett]]. Elizabeth was educated at home and at a private school. ...
7: ...ut the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her principal work, and she soo...
9: ...d equipped, the New hospital (in the Euston Road) being worked entirely by medical women, and the scho... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
1: ...[1921]]) was the first woman in Canada legally to become a medical doctor, and was the only woman in C...
5: ...dical career, passing her matriculation exam in [[1871]] and studied medicine at the [[University of Tor...
9: ...ario|Kingston]]. Her family traveled extensively between Florida and Ontario, and later moved to [[Lo... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...> - [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame ...
5: ...s of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to believe she had supernatural powers at a very early ...
7: ...Italian]] [[opera]] singer Agardi Metrovich. In [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] an explosion cla...
9: ... mediumship. Throughout her career she claimed to be able to perform physical and mental psychic feats...
13: ...May 25]], [[1878]]. On [[July 8]], [[1878]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the [[United Sta... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) w...
5: ... three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[...
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...ob was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk in a department store, where she woul...
10: ...[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Gret... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
3: ...ved from the bugle family. However, lately it has been gradually replaced by the trumpet in the [[Unit...
7: ...eme high register to the brass band sound and can be most effective in cutting through even the bigges...
9: ...passages. The cornet is often preferred for young beginners as it is easier to hold, with its centre o...
13: ...ts a long-model cornet which looks about half-way between the short instrument and a trumpet. This ins...
19: ...thus vibrating air column) between mouthpiece and bell. As the player presses the valves, they lower ... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
25: ... During his time as U.S. Senator, Tyler, who had begun as a strict state-rights Democrat, grew increa...
36: ...December 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady o...
38: ...ia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[December 28]], [[1907]]).
39: *Elizabeth Tyler ([[July 11]], [[1823]] - [[June 1]], [[18...
42: *Tazewell Tyler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]). - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
8: [[Image:Lincoln.jpg|Abe Lincoln]]
42: ...called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Ema...
44: ...idential election]] further polarized the nation. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]]...
46: ...omatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congre...
48: ... social institutions. The most important may have been setting the precedent for greater centralizatio... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
24: ...essful general, he is considered by historians to be one of America's worst presidents, who led an adm...
41: ...vernor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st...
43: .... Later in [[1862]], he was surprised by Gen. [[Albert Sidney Johnston]] at the [[Battle of Shiloh]], ...
45: ...;on [[March 2]], [[1864]]. On [[March 12]], Grant became general-in-chief of all of the armies of the ...
48: ...licted irreplaceable losses. Grant has been described as a "butcher" for his strategy, particularly in... - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ...Wilson''' ([[February 16]], [[1812]]–[[November 22]], [[1875]]) was a [[United States Senate|Sen...
5: ... shoes. He was a member of the state legislature between [[1841]] and [[1852]], and was owner and edi...
7: ...]], to [[March 3]], [[1873]], when he resigned to become Vice President. He was Chairman of the Commi...
12: ...ican Party vice presidential nominees|candidate]]|before=[[Schuyler Colfax]]|after=[[William A. Wheele...
13: ...eler]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1873]] – [[November 22]], [[1875]]}}
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