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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic ...
30: ... ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, trave...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] explorer
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] explorer
34: *[[Moric Benovsky]], [[Slovakia|Slovak]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
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7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwe...
9: ...nd|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...om of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
13: === Abba - Abbe ===
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
16: ...ge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist - 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.... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...rg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophi...
2: ...nnie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theo...
4: ... Besant]], and she had to leave both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were r...
7: Soon after becoming a member of the [[Theosophical Society]] she went to [[In...
9: ...to the fold through the agency of Besant, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society i... - 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...
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...
16: ...l [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]]. - 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)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
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]
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874)
31: ...(1867) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 Gutenberg etext of this book] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States...
12: ... she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: .... She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri M...
21: Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein ra...
23: ... of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ...lm University]], the third woman in [[Europe]] to become a professor.
3: ...riukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He managed to con...
5: ...ademy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodorovich Schubert]] (another Academician) and had more education ...
7: ...ting solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormo...
9: ...van Beethoven|Beethoven]]'s [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his atten... - 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... - 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: ...traveling the world, claiming to have entered [[Tibet]] to study with the [[Ascended Master]]s for two...
9: ... mediumship. Throughout her career she claimed to be able to perform physical and mental psychic feats...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a la... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...an Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|...
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her mov...
8: ...said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ... (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...] in [[Whitby, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in [[New York City]], [[United St...
4: ...ed in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed...
8: ...] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the first screen kiss in cinematic history.
10: ...me year she began making records for [[RCA Victor|Berliner/Victor]].
12: ...e than thirty years she was one of America's most beloved performers. In 1914, she made her second [[s... - 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: ...yler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]). - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr>
20: ...'' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[...
26: ...ked his way up through the Whig party, eventually being selected as [[Zachary Taylor]]'s running mate....
29: ...n-American War]]. Taylor wanted the new states to be free states, while Fillmore supported slavery in ...
31: ...s death, he intimated to him that if there should be a tie vote on Henry Clay's bill, he would vote in... - 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... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
13: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1893]])</td></tr>
15: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1889]])<br>
29: ...epublican Party|Republican]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election ...
34: ... As a lawyer in [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]], he became notable for his single-minded concentration u...
40: ...e time; Cleveland probably assumed responsibility because he was the only bachelor among them). After ...
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