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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
113: | [[1919]] — [[1932]]
193: | [[1919]] — [[1928]] (Legislative Building)
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... - 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... - 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... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...nian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as ...
7: ...ng the [[Zhenodtel]] or "Women's Department" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to improve the condit...
11: ...]], to form a left-wing faction of the party that became known as the [[Workers' Opposition]]. Howeve...
13: ... to [[Mexico]] and [[Sweden]]. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nati... - 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: ...clined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in ...
12: ...lding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
9: Millicent Fawcett was the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female do... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...uccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's or...
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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [...
4: ...ollege of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Ga...
7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against...
9: ...]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Ga...
11: ...her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church ... - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...r breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flig...
6: ...ed Amelia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for ...
8: ...ornia]] where she became interested in flying and began taking lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With finan...
10: ... the engagement had been broken and soon her life began to include George Putnam. The two developed a ...
14: ...National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...#1123;таева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) w...
5:
8: ...ts roots in the depths of her displaced and disturbed childhood. Her father was Ivan Vladimirovich Tsv...
10: ...'s poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor...
12: ...luence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed... - 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: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially ...
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... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
3: ...t''' (n饠Fulton) ([[June 6]], [[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]...
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton...
11: ...) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (He... - 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...
10: ...se." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]]...
12: ...]]. In physics, she arrived at a very crucial and beautiful result known as [[Noether's theorem]], whi... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... York]], [[United States]] ? died [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]...
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... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...[[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versatile woman — a [[Feminism|fem...
6: ...rk]], the daughter of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included suc...
8: .... She married a fellow medical school student, Albert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[R...
10: ...he Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever female U.S. Army Surgeon.
12: ...Sherman]] and [[George Henry Thomas]]. On [[November 11]], [[1865]], President [[Andrew Johnson]] sig... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ... to [[France]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts....
9: ...ensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several ...
11: ...eatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptor...
17: ...-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe." For some time she lived with all of her childre... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: '''Ellen Gould White''' (nee Harmon) ([[November 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was ...
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...
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