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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
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... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
41: ...is Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president o...
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - 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]]... - 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]]. - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...ficant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...ulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloom...
9: ...rst novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[1915]]. This novel was originally titled "Melymbrosia,...
13: ...centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief p...
15: ...d can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest pos... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: '''Billie Holiday''' ([[April 7]], [[1915]] – [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''...
7: ...ped out of school at an early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. T...
14: ... Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your ...
16: ...azz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52...
20: ...from the audience before appearing on stage. Once before an audience, she was transformed into Lady Da... - 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... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...) ([[November 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of [[Seventh-day Adventist Chur...
5: ...n White was a prolific [[writer]]. She is said to be the most translated female writer in the history ...
9: ...e hearts of men and women. Considered by some to be the prophetess for the end-times, through the Hol...
11: ...hristians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of the big apostasies of the l...
19: ...this condition for several months. She also describes moments of pure bliss while having positive reli... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] i...
5: ...Stonehouse]] until his arrest near the end of October that year.
7: ...ginald Starr]] and [[Philippe de Vom飯urt]]. She began working with them in the town of [[Agen]] in t...
9: ...prisons at [[Torgau]] in [[Saxony]] and at [[Konisberg]] in [[Brandenburg]] where she suffered great h...
11: ...me]]. As one of the SOE agents who died for the liberation of France, she is listed on the "Roll of Ho... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
1: [[Image:Edith Cavell - Project Gutenberg eText 14676.jpg|frame|right|'''Edith Cavell''']...
5: ...''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World W...
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... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...rol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married ...
9: When [[Germany]] invaded Poland in [[September]] [[1939]], ushering in [[World War II]], the co...
11: ...t did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's ...
13: ...engineer-inventor [[Stefan Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom ... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Acade...
3: ..., her first movie. After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star ...
5: ... Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|...
7: ... Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances. - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...ge:Sarah Bernhardt-Nadar.jpg|thumb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: '''Sarah Bernhardt''' ([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) w...
4: ...own as "Youle." Her father was reportedly Edouard Bernard, a French lawyer, and she was educated in Fr...
6: ...itle, "The Divine Sarah"; arguably, she may have been the most famous actress of the [[19th century]]...
8: Although primarily a stage actress, Bernhardt made several cylinders and discs of famous... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...he romantic orchestra: namely, an insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instruments with very...
3: ...trauss requested that a piccolo heckelphone in Eb be built for use in his composition [[Eine Alpensinf...
7: ...hey were only ever produced in extremely small numbers, with production ceasing altogether in [[1955]]...
9: ...ve been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the hands of private collectors awaiting disco...
11: ...e a modern version produced, it would undoubtedly be a great asset to contemporary composers, providin... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ..., a great grandaughter of Manuel Nunes (mentioned below)
7: ...d Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a li...
13: ...ith the G-string an octave lower, so it's pitched below the C-string, where you might expect it. Some ...
15: ...y be referred to jocularly as "My dog has fleas", because the strings sounded in order are the same as... - 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 ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
5: ...e late [[1960s]] and has since almost universally been accepted by scientists and has revolutionized t...
8: ...nd mechanically weaker. This division should not be confused with the ''chemical'' subdivision of the...
10: ... These boundaries are discussed in further detail below.
12: ... a result, the oceanic lithospheres generally lie below sea level (for example the entire [[Pacific Pl...
19: ...es underneath the other) or an [[orogeny|orogenic belt]] (if the two simply collide and compress). - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
21: leader_names = [[Mary McAleese]]<br>[[Bertie Ahern]] |
40: ... by treaty<br>[[21 January]] [[1919]]<br>[[6 December]] [[1921]] |
58: ...s treaties, government and legal documents and membership of international organisations.
60: ...achieved ''de facto'' independence in [[1922]] it became known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name t...
65: The partition of Ireland came about because of complex constitutional developments in th...
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