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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
105: | [[1911]] — [[1917]]
169: | [[1905]] — [[1911]]
181: | [[1911]] — [[1916]]
205: ...]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...inese civilization. Politically, China alternated between periods of political union and disunion, and...
7: ...late [[Neolithic]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, wher...
14: ...pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...found on pottery and shells, have been alleged to be ancestors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but s...
22: ...bone writings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of th... - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
6: ...ly destroyed by [[Alexander of Macedon]] has been beyond dispute at least since the time of [[Pietro d...
8: ...es. Ctesias mentions further, with regard to a number of Persian kings, either that their remains were...
12: ...who is one of those whose bodies are said to have been brought "to the Persians."
18: ... a new branch of the royal house, that Persepolis became the capital of Persia proper. As a residence,...
20: ... particulars with Takhti Jamshid, for example, in being supported by the mountain on the east. - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in the [[3rd century BC]] to protect the n...
3: ...on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple civiliz...
5: ...y|twentieth centuries]], China stagnated and fell behind, and was too weak militarily to repel [[Europ...
7: ...e PRC does not recognize the ROC, as it claims to be the sole successor of all China including Taiwan....
14: ...lated as "Middle Kingdom", but perhaps could also be translated as, "Central State". It literally mean... - 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
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
3: ...ance]] in 1713, he was a prominent figure in what became known as the [[The Age of Enlightenment|Enlig...
5: ... an article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
7: He was educated by the [[Jesuits]], and became a bookseller in [[Paris]]. In 1743 he married...
12: ... uncertainty of the philosophy which professes to be so high above both church and world.
23: ... in his busy and pregnant intelligence the scheme became transformed. Instead of a mere reproduction o... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...e of a [[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']...
5: ...of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events, Queen Mary's va...
9: ...he Empire of [[Austria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsbu...
11: ...nited Kingdom]], Princess May was only a minor member of the [[British Royal Family]]. Her father, the...
13: ...d were given use of [[White Lodge]] in [[Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor]] as a residence. Princess May was... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...biography]], [[Living my Life]], and other works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [...
6: ...ai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist...
9: ...dman to the anarchist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar ove...
10: ...rkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander Berkman]]
13: ...] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was... - 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... - 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: ... she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition of her services to the advancem... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...orhood]] of uptown [[New Orleans, Louisiana]] and began singing in a [[Baptist]] church. She moved to...
3: ...elling singles in the history of [[Norway]]. She began a radio series on [[CBS]], and signed to [[Col... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
3: ...7]], [[1179]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monasticism|monastic]] leader, [[Mystics|m...
6: ...ed the group to a new [[monastery]] on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the [[Rhine]].
8: ... inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her order after falling physically ill from ...
11: ... Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to become her lifelong secretary. However, in 1141, Hil...
15: ...l weighed down by a scourge of god, I fell onto a bed of sickness."'' - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...ie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ... shot, severing the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. He...
7: ...he moved back to [[New York City]] in [[1930]] to become an actress and had some success as a fashion ...
11: ...isted on working with Arnaz. This show eventually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impres... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: [[Image:BabeDidrikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition...
3: ...xas]] and acquired her nickname "Babe" (after [[Babe Ruth]]) after she hit five [[home run]]s in a sin...
5: She first became known as an athlete, competing in the [[1932 ...
7: ... style="float:left">[[Image:BabeStamp.png]]<P>''Babe Zaharias as <BR>depicted on a 1981<BR> US [[posta...
9: ...ater the [[LPGA]] (of which she was a founding member) until illness shortened her career in the mid-1... - Retina (13061 bytes)
7: ...line]] and [[Ragnar Granit]] won the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for their scie...
9: ...cture of the [[blood vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]] identification.
16: ...st first pass through the thickness of the retina before reaching the rods and cones. However it does ...
18: ...[capillaries]] in front of the photoreceptors can be perceived as tiny bright moving dots when looking...
20: Between the ganglion cell layer and the rods and con... - 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...
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]]
13: ...ts a long-model cornet which looks about half-way between the short instrument and a trumpet. This ins... - 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 ... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
4: ...idian was agreed upon in October [[1884]]. At the behest of [[President of the United States|U.S. Pres...
8: ...instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian".
9: # That all longitudes would be calculated both east and west from this meridian ...
11: ...sal day would be a [[solar time|mean solar day]], beginning at the mean midnight at Greenwich and coun...
12: ...t nautical and astronomical days everywhere would begin at mean midnight.
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