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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
23: | [[California]]
24: | [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]]
37: | [[1933]] - 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
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architect
5: *[[Gregor Aichinger|Aichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
9: ...al writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
16: ...[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor...
16: ...here I can look at you most of my waking hours! I can't kiss you [in person] so I kiss your picture go...
20: ... perform at [[Constitution Hall]] in Washington because of her skin color. Mrs. Roosevelt arranged fo...
22: ...cism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt win a lot of... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
4: ...eave both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with [[freed...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[...
7: ...voted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progres...
9: ...t, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previo... - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...oet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and litera...
7: ...1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
9: ...eft|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: ...he lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Mat... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...h|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|S...
12: ...flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain t...
16: ... South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridg... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to recei...
3: ... and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]. Millay rose to fame with her poem "...
5: ...e, during which time her great popularity in America was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Po...
7: ...ived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmhouse they called Steepletop. The marriage was an [[open marria...
9: ...d War II]]. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for suppo... - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...sh [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...ppointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ...1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Doroth... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
9: .... Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: ... generalized transformations of physical systems, called [[symmetry|symmetries]] by physicists, into ... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apgar Score]], to assess the health of ... - 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: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
18: ...mpensated for this shortcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immedi... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: ...mith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
7: ...raveling in her own railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. ...
9: ...string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ... recordings and they are of particular interest because the accompanying band included such [[Swing Er...
13: ...long [[United States Highway 61]]. She was in a car driven by her companion (and [[Lionel Hampton]]'... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...tion. They captivated the attention of the [[American]] press and its readership during what is someti...
11: ...nd loyal companion to Clyde Barrow as they evaded capture and awaited the violent deaths they viewed a...
15: ... he also cracked safes, burgled stores, and stole cars. Known primarily for robbing banks, he preferre...
23: ...Farm]] until early 1932. It was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man ...
27: ...transportation in the Texas farm country. Clyde escaped, and Bonnie and Fults were arrested. She claim... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ....]]) <small>([[August 12]], [[1831]] ([[Gregorian calendar|N.S.]]))</small> - [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[Lo...
5: ...lowed her to mature into a nonconformist. She was cared for by servants who believed in the many super...
7: ...lavatsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occu...
9: ... was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Though she was apparent...
13: ...y 25]], [[1878]]. On [[July 8]], [[1878]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the [[United State... - 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: ...n 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left hom...
21: ...r">[[Image:GospelCar.jpeg]]<small><br>The "Gospel Car", 1918</small></div> - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...,[[1945]], [[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ...re Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie," the co...
5: ...efore being shipped to [[Ravensbr?[[concentration camp]] near [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military servi...
5: ...[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
9: ...le to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the...
11: ...hese regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the three regime...
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