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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
23: | [[California]]
24: | [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...to the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as su...
7: ...es were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
11: [[Archaeological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] ...
14: ...20195;; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
18: ...orated. Some archaeologists connect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] provin... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
11: *[[Adalbert of Prague]], (circa 956-997), saint
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
37: ...w Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ter in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]]...
10: Her father worked as a carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a groc...
14: ...ather when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region...
16: ...he joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and be...
20: ...s there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen. She a... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ... ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...ore she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]],...
6: ...he began studying painting at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsyl...
8: ... small town. Her father continued to resist her vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not he... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ..."the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ... melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...ther of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], w...
9: ...nt film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but ret...
11: ...-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple w... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member ...
7: ...apitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with B...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...ream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and ...
13: ...central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...ght|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
9: ...rnity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father as ...
14: ...by [[record producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among ...
18: ...mpensated for this shortcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immedi... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...rminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to ...
9: ...the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...hortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]],...
19: ...aching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching f...
21: ...r">[[Image:GospelCar.jpeg]]<small><br>The "Gospel Car", 1918</small></div> - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...) ([[November 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of [[Seventh-day Adventist Chur...
5: ...and promoted establishment of [[schools]] and medical centers.
7: ...ing her lifetime she wrote more than 5,000 periodical articles and 40 books; but today, including comp...
13: Her last home, ''Elmshaven'' in [[Saint Helena, California]], is a [[National Historic Landmark]].
17: ...school, and never completed any further formal education. - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] i...
7: Following Stonehouse's capture, she went into hiding until early 1943 when ...
9: ... contact with SOE agent and Benoist's fellow race car driver, [[Jean-Pierre Wimille]]. However, in Jun...
11: Eventually shipped to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]], sometime between January 25 and February 5, ... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
1: ...ct Gutenberg eText 14676.jpg|frame|right|'''Edith Cavell''']]
2: ....cavell.JPG|thumb|234px|Statue in memory of Edith Cavell, opposite the [[National Portrait Gallery, Lo...
3: ...ead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith Cavell]]
5: ...''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World W...
7: ...the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell.htm]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...pable of all SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Ope...
7: ..., and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...tually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missi...
11: ...rthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]]...
13: ... contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been fo... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|ac...
5: ...eceived her first Academy Award nomination for [[Academy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the...
7: ...y married and had a son. The affair caused was a scandal in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergma...
9: ...''H?onaten'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performan...
11: ...elgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]] for theatrical training.
6: Her stage career started in [[1862]], largely in [[comic theat...
12: ...to star in eight motion pictures and two biographical films in all. The latter included ''Sarah Bernha...
16: ...r several months. Nonetheless, she continued her career, in spite of the need to use a wooden [[prost... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
3: ... the high trumpet part in the last movement. In [[1915]], Strauss requested that a piccolo heckelphone i...
5: ...hat of a [[saxophone]]), giving it a characteristically strong and powerful tone.
7: ...able of cutting through quadruple wind sections became much less necessary. Thirdly, they were only ev...
9: ...olo heckelphone at the [[Leipzig University]] musical instrument museum. Of the rest, some may have be... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
3: ...[[Braga]] and named after it; the [[Brazil]]ian [[cavaquinho]] is usually tuned in D-G-B-D, a G-major ...
5: ...home of Madeira Island off the coast of North Africa. Flora Fox, a great grandaughter of Manuel Nunes ...
7: ...d Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...y popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighter ...
13: ...it as much a tenor guitar as a ukulele. The tenor can be tuned either way, and in C tuning is sometime... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... the Earth began soon after the formation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the ...
4: ...shop [[James Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astro...
15: ... that if two layers of rock at widely differing locations contained similar fossils, then it was very ...
17: ... Smith's nephew and student, John Phillips, later calculated by such means that the Earth was about 96...
19: ...tic, with changes brought about by intermittent [[catastrophe]]s. Many naturalists were influenced by ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...long plate boundaries (most notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Ring of Fire]]").
5: ... tectonic theory arose out of two separate geological observations: [[continental drift]], noticed in...
8: ...s division should not be confused with the ''chemical'' subdivision of the Earth into (from innermost ...
10: ...trench]]es. The majority of the world's active volcanoes occur along plate boundaries, with the Pacifi...
12: ... of this principle, which is essentially a large-scale version of [[Archimedes]]' Bath). - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
11: image_map = LocationIreland.png |
15: capital = [[Dublin]] |
21: leader_names = [[Mary McAleese]]<br>[[Bertie Ahern]] |
36: GDP_PPP_per_capita = $40,003 |
37: GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = 4th |
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