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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (of...
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]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[le...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
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
63: *[[Richard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
67: ...cott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip
98: *[[Isabelle Adjani|Adjani, Isabelle]], (born 1955), French actress - 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: ...to the fold through the agency of Besant, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society i... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...l access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...he married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following ye...
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She als...
15: ...International Information Center. In 1937, Sanger became chairperson of the Birth Control Council of A...
21: ...anger's books include ''Woman and the New Race'' (1920), ''Happiness in Marriage'' (1926), and an autobi... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: ...e Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazilian]] writer.
5: She died of cancer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at th...
32: *A Bela e a Fera (1979)
33: *A Descoberta do Mundo (1984) - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...illay''' ([[February 22]], [[1892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwrigh...
7: ...illon]], fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
25: .../catalog/world/authrec?fk_authors=70 Project Gutenberg e-texts by Millay] - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...26]]) was the first [[African American]] woman to become an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the firs...
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
6: ...nch women were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...capitalized on her flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her ...
10: ...d not gain admission to American flight schools because she was black and a woman. Coleman was the ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physi...
5: ...Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Palestine. ...
8: ...he University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], she wo...
9: ...on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had...
12: ...he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good s... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ...most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ... [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and al...
7: ...(traveling in her own railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day...
9: ... film, she sings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des...
2: ...ics]] since the early [[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Repu...
7: ...[[Meuse River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted...
10: ...d [[Catherine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine]] are behind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical pan...
12: ...under siege by the English since the previous October. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...an Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|...
4: ...842]]-[[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. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) w...
5: ...ildren born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]])....
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]). - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ... of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
8: ...wner of a carriage company, decided that it would be good for her to compete in tennis and gain streng...
10: ...unner of the [[French Open]], was only open to members of French clubs until 1925.) She lost to reigni...
14: ...s]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, saw Lengl...
16: ... French woman who also casually sipped [[brandy]] between sets. - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...a Lisa.jpg|thumb|The [[Mona Lisa]] is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]...
2: ...guage. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
34: ... by the medium that the pigment is suspended or embedded in, which determines the general working char...
52: ...out contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts.
100: *[[Amedeo Modigliani]], ([[1884]]-[[1920]]), Italian sculptor and painter - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
2: ...ns travel ''perpendicular to the direction of the bellows''.
10: ...te an air valve (for expanding or contracting the bellows without sounding a note) or a drone. Anglo ...
13: ...ve the same note. A scale in most keys alternates between one side and the other. The English concerti...
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