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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing...
197: | [[1924]] — [[1932]]
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]] - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...orge Herbert Walker Bush''' ( born [[12 June ]] [[1924]] ) was the 41st [[President of the United States...
22: George Herbert Walker Bush was born to [[Prescott Bush]] and D... - 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: 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 - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...han that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of the [[United Kingdom of G...
9: ...onarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cob...
12: ...er of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] an...
14: ... her governess, during her early years. After she became three years old however, she was schooled in ...
16: ...rovision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult.... - 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]]... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...ounded [[Newnham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Su...
7: ... British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name ...
9: Millicent Fawcett was the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female do... - 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...
29: ...e undesirable side-effects of sex than a way of liberating men and women to enjoy it. In ''What Every ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: '''Georgia O'Keeffe''' ([[November 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]) was...
6: ...|Art Students' League]] in [[New York City]]. She began teaching in the public schools in [[Amarillo, ...
8: ...Stieglitz]]. Impressed by the drawings, Stieglitz began negotiations to display her work and she allow...
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist p...
11: ...al of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
19: ...ion from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typ...
22: ...e two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the United State...
24: ...nce from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into ... - 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: ...After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a ...
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... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ... and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] ...
5: ...r shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eug...
7: ...th itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ... both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries con... - 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]... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) w...
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...ob was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk in a department store, where she woul...
10: ...[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Gret...
12: ...r [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship ... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: '''Sonja Henie''' ([[April 8]], [[1912]]-[[October 12]], [[1969]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[fig...
4: ...er Olympics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rin...
8: She is credited with being the first to adopt the short skirt costume in ...
10: ...in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London''. She became one of the wealthiest women in the world in h...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - 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. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...ain, but are not generally considered locomotives because they have payload space or are rarely detach...
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
8: ... many reasons why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather ...
13: ...ives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
14: ...ecting the other. At some times, locomotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice ver...
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