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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
17: | [[1899]] — [[1900]]
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
21: ...] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
23: ...]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the...
38: *[[Saint Brendan]] - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
37: ...en 500 million and 1 billion [[US dollar|USD]] of damage. Half of the fires turn out to be [[arson]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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5: *[[Adachi Hatazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and ...
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
11: ...ncy, the society had, as one of its foci [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]] and the island of [[Ceylon]] where...
15: ...s it went against her ideals. She tried to accommodate Krishnamurti's views into her life, but never r...
17: ...e Besant died in [[1933]] and was survived by her daughter, [[Mabel Besant-Scott| Mabel]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
24: ...h venereal diseases (which she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious disease... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
5: ...cer in [[1977]] just one day before her 57th birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the...
13: *A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
23: *A imita磯 da rosa (1973) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: '''Mary Pickford''' ([[April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion pict...
5: ...odramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the st...
15: ...p in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funer...
18: ... and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $5 a day - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ... later joined her sister Muriel in [[Toronto, Canada]] where she worked as a nurse's aide in a militar...
14: ...onor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from Pres...
18: ...p him establish his own navigation school in Florida.
20: ...op (aviation)|ground-looped]] the plane. Severely damaged, the aircraft had to be shipped to [[Califor...
34: ...ecovery) suggests they may have flown along a standard line of position, which Earhart specified in he... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...ева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[p...
10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...t. Vincent Millay''' ([[February 22]], [[1892]] – [[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet a...
3: ..., when Millay was about eight. Cora and her three daughters, Edna (who was called "Vincent" by her clo...
9: Her reputation was damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
18: ...ed by 10,000 mourners. Many of them, including [[Ida B. Wells]], were prominent members of Black socie... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di...
32: *Maddox, Brenda ''Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'', 2002. ISBN 0060184078. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, T...
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stok...
7: ... became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompaniments included some of th...
9: ...sie, however, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued tou...
13: ...and summoned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...le interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many...
7: ... to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown prince]]), and making the infant ...
12: ...d they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brough...
14: ... small force she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Coun...
16: ... said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—gained her the support of prominent clergy such... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945)
64: *[[Die! Die! My Darling!]] (1965) - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish...
25: ...ick]] wanted her cast as the dying heiress in ''[[Dark Victory]]'' in [[1935 in film|1935]], but she i...
33: ...ting Garbo in a romantic comedy that featured her dancing, but this film was a critical and box-office...
35: ...ht appear as the Duchess de Guermantes in a film adaptation of "[[Remembrance of Things Past]]," but t...
69: * [[The Single Standard]] (1929) - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ne Rachel Flore Lenglen''' ([[24 May]] [[1899]] – [[4 July]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] ...
8: ...hief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That same year she won the International Cla...
14: ...h points and winning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory.
18: ... with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Painting (4567 bytes)
8: ...s''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old. They are engraved a...
97: *[[Salvador Dal흝, ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist
107: *[[Leonardo da Vinci]], ([[1452]]-[[1519]]), Italian painter, sc... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
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