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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ...licts with the native [[Sioux]] and [[Apache]] tribes, and the eventual displacement of much of the na...
7: ...s Congress|Congress]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A ...
11: ...rotection for life or property now exist in the rebel States."
13: ...rs]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corruption, while local...
21: ...rmal place as full citizens; in return the whites became reintegrated into the Union. Now that Africa... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
7: ...al population to the cities. However agriculture became increasingly mechanized with widespread use o...
16: ...andard of living in rural areas fell increasingly behind that of urban and suburban areas which saw dr...
18: [[Jazz]] music became widely popular with the young (and was widely...
23: ...o alleviate various social problems; this came to be known as "Prohibition". It was enacted through th...
25: ... Absentee voting by troops overseas was spotty at best.
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- 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
51: *[[Henry Adams|Adams, Henry]], (1838-1918), author
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]]
29: *[[S.Y. Agnon|Agnon, S.Y.]], (1888-1970), [[Nobel]] prizewinning author
32: *[[Benjamin Agosto|Agosto, Benjamin]], (born 1982), American skater
53: *[[Ruben Aguirre|Aguirre, Ruben]], (born 1934), Mexican actor - 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: ... seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do...
10: ... as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, w... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ...They settled in [[Dublin]] in [[1903]], where she became involved in radical politics through the [[su...
8: ...ed herself to the cause of [[socialism]]. As a member of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easte...
10: ...blin St Patrick's as one of 73 [[Sinn F驮]] [[Member of Parliament#United Kingdom|MP]]s. This made he...
12: ...lding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. ... - 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)
1: ...renBlixen.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|Blixen in Kenya, 1918]]
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 ... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...nett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known ...
5: ...while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the avant-garde living there at the time. In...
7: ...tminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with ano...
11: ..., rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted ...
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... - 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</...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
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... - 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... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...an Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|...
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.
12: She returned to US in 1931 to be [[Paramount Picture]]'s "next [[Marlene Dietrich]... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ...a Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen''' ([[April 26]], [[1918]]–[[January 25]], [[2004]]) was a [[Netherl...
7: ...e retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became leader of the Dutch female track and field te...
11: ...uch as [[Rie Mastenbroek]]), and she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athleti...
15: In [[Berlin]], she participated in the [[high jump]] and ...
17: ...cs were formally cancelled on May 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands were invaded by German troops... - Hair (11457 bytes)
4: ...mmals, the pigmentation changes with the seasons, becoming white during the snowy winter, for example....
6: ...air to a severely short length. The shorter style became the new normality and has never entirely gone...
13: ...[[natural selection]] once other somatic hair had been lost.
15: Unlike other animals, human beings often have their [[haircut|hair cut]] or [[de...
17: ...air than others. Overall coverage in terms of number of folicles is relatively constant. - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
1: [[Image:First_lady_bess_truman.jpg|right|frame|]]
3: ...sh; [[October 18]], [[1982]]), often known as "'''Bess Truman'''", was the wife of [[Harry S. Truman]]...
5: ...impression of her -- "golden curls" and "the most beautiful blue eyes." A relative said, "there never ...
7: ...ant Truman left for the battlefields of France in 1918. They were married on [[June 28]], [[1919]]; they...
9: ...y Truman took the President's oath of office--and Bess, who managed to look on with composure, was the... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
17: | '''Date of Birth''' || [[December 29]], [[1808]]
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
40: '''Andrew Johnson''' ([[December 29]], [[1808]] – [[July 31]], [[1875]]) was...
42: ...]] him in [[1868]]; he was the first President to be impeached. He was subsequently acquitted by a sin...
45: ...ded any type of school; his wife has historically been credited with teaching him to read and write. - 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... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
5: | date1=[[September 20]], [[1881]]
9: | date of birth=[[October 5]], [[1829]]
12: | date of death=[[November 18]], [[1886]]
18: ...1]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[President of the United States|President]],...
20: ...e attire. He kept 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe,and changed pants several times a day. He was ca... - 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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