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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
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]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish prime m...
6: *[[Alf Ahlberg|Ahlberg, Alf]], Swedish writer
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...tor, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
28: *[[Joseph Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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... - 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: ...lected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henr... - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...sh]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of ...
5: ... at [[Copenhagen]], [[Paris]], and [[Rome]]. She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodica...
9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, publishing ''Seven Gothic ...
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... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...nett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known ...
3: ...h Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and th...
5: ...while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time. In...
7: ...ble just for the "hell of it". Very quickly, she became a well-known Bohemian personality throughout ...
15: ...] unsuccessfully sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book... - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ... she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: ...et her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. Du...
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... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: ... Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|ph...
4: ...n for 30 years, each of them leading a section in Berlin's <i>Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry</...
10: ...er]] together jumped into action, persuading [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to ...
12: ...lso that Siegbahn had worked against her to the Nobel committee. This was partially corrected in [[196...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics:... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
8: ...d to let her teach, and her colleague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ... letting her vote in the academic senate. Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is...
12: ...]]. In physics, she arrived at a very crucial and beautiful result known as [[Noether's theorem]], whi... - 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... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
1: [[Image:Florence Nightingale - Project Gutenberg 13103.jpg|thumbnail|right|250px|A young '''Flor...
3: ...0]] – [[August 13]], [[1910]]), who came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pi...
7: ...or a woman of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: Inspired by what she understood to be a [[divine]] calling (first experienced in [[1837...
11: ...in the reform of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...herson''' ([[October 9]], [[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"...
7: ... Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal ill...
9: ...er, she became an avowed [[Atheism|atheist]], and began her public speaking career at the age of 13 in...
11: ...-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
13: ...irth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United Sta... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
1: [[Image:Edith Cavell - Project Gutenberg eText 14676.jpg|frame|right|'''Edith Cavell''']...
5: ...ouisa Cavell''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroine...
7: ... entering British history as a heroine. Her case became an important article of British propaganda th...
9: ...bitterness towards anyone." These words are inscribed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Traf... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...an Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|...
4: ...ad]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
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. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...which she won four. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominati...
5: ...oy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sen...
7: ...Young Women's Golf Championship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — s...
10: ...egree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mistake? other sources say her degree was in dr...
14: ==Hepburn's acting career begins== - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...] in [[Whitby, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in [[New York City]], [[United St...
4: ...s debuted in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had p...
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...
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