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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]]
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...r the flag of [[Castile|Castilian]] [[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [...
3: ... the Americas, they inaugurated permanent contact between the New and Old Worlds.
5: ...erde (today's Newfoundland). [[Giovanni Caboto]] (better known as John Cabot) was first to reach the A...
7: ... [[United States]] where "Columbus Day" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the B...
9: ...[[virus]]es, [[bacteria]], and [[parasite]]s, and beneficial to humans, such as [[tomato]]es, [[potato... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
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: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - 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
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress
113: *[[Renee Adoree|Adoree, Renee]], (1898-1933), French actor - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...tor, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ...ctress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the o...
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where i...
8: ... take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chose...
10: ... as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, w... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] wh...
10: ...[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight years old, Golda o...
12: ...t Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
14: ... at the urging of her father when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors f...
16: ...15]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]]... - 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... - 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... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...t by her daughters, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]], both of whom ...
7: ...ded in getting her imprisoned several times, but, because of her high profile, she did not endure the ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...a's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Holly...
5: .... She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...so in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage na...
9: ...he sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films f...
11: ...on-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...e early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cu...
5: ...]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of th...
11: ...el]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
13: Eight years later, she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition o... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...ving had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cross]].
8: ...ches." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's lifework.
12: Clara became a [[teacher]] at age 15, a post that she was ...
14: ...cal]] in modern times) and attended the Clinton Liberal Institute in Clinton, New York, where she stud...
17: ...country with all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bad... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
4: ...ing [[typhoid]] patients at a copper mine in [[Bisbee, Arizona]] until accepting an appointment as th...
6: ...e contributions to her profession resulted in her being named president of the American Nurses Associa...
12: ...l with a display of personal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the Natio... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...]], The Great [[Egyptian Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
26: ...Heliopolis]], further south to [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]], and, under the [[Ptolemaic dynasty]], [[Alexa...
30: ...side the fortress, known as [[Al-Fustat]], slowly became the permanent base of the Arab forces in Egyp...
36: ...58]] heightened the importance of the city and it became the leading intellectual and artistic centre ...
45: ...tion of the [[Suez Canal]] brought significant numbers of westerners to Egypt. A network of gas lighti... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[October 30]], [[1735]]
18: '''John Adams''' ([[October 30]], [[1735]] – [[July 4]], [[1826]]) was...
22: Adams was born on [[October 30]] ([[October 19]] [[Old Style and New Style dates|Old Style]]...
28: ..., Adams often found his inborn contentiousness to be a handicap in his political career. These qualiti...
31: ...amp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representation in parliament, had not ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
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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 ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...emaic dynasty|Ptolemaic]] rulers of Egypt quickly became one of the greatest cities of the [[Hellenist...
7: ...ts in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
19: ...ced by subsequent developments. One of the more sober descriptions, given by the historian [[Arrian]],...
21: ...of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away...
23: ...re five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a hi... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... Earth is difficult to define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the ...
4: ...eation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young-earth belief]).
6: ... the arrival of humankind, or far into the future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Arist...
9: ... the universe, several hundred thousands of years before.
11: ... Earth using an experiment. He created a small globe that resembled the Earth in composition and then ...
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