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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
28: | [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
53: ...ash; [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval ...
9: *[[Afonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] na...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...e [[3rd century BC]] to protect the north from raiders on horseback.]]
3: ...nding on one's point of view, modern China can be described as a single [[civilization]] or multiple c...
5: ...of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by warlordism, the [[Second Sino-Jap...
7: ...utes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwan independence]] issues.
14: ...of China at the centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitr...
10: ...[[Kingdom of Sardinia|Sardinia]], which soon expanded to become [[Italy]].
12: ...bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Republican]... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
26: ...s|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
3: *[[Aedesius]], (died 355), [[Neoplatonist]] philosopher
5: ...on Aehrenthal|Aehrenthal, Alois Lexa von]], (1854-1912), [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungarian]] statesman - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...al monarch of the [[Tudor dynasty]], having succeeded her half-sister, [[Mary I of England|Mary I]]. S...
9: ...]. Elizabeth was a short-tempered and sometimes indecisive ruler. This last quality, viewed with impat...
11: The reign was marked by prudence in the granting of [[British honours system|ho...
16: ...on after [[Edward VI of England|Prince Edward]] under the [[English Act of Succession|Act of Successio...
18: ...daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her death. Later, Parker would become the first Archbish... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...stemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
8: ...lection. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman elected, and th...
10: ...''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...ia Wyatt Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected...
7: Hattie Caraway married [[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro,...
9: ... [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when h...
11: ...unfinished term. She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a specia...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist ...
6: ...fe Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...e]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its membe...
10: ...d]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]], along with other socialis...
12: ...ally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist memb... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...al Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] meeting by shouting demands for voting rights for women. She was arreste...
7: ...te for Parliament in the Smethwick riding but was defeated. Leaving her native England, she moved to t...
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...d [[Emmeline Pankhurst]], members of the [[Independent Labour Party]] and much-concerned with women's ...
9: ...to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the WSF, ''[[Women's Dreadnough...
11: ...ntarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB. Howe...
13: This unity was to be short-lived and when the leadership of the CPGB proposed that Sylvia hand over t...
15: ...nd was supportive of left communists such as [[Amadeo Bordiga]] and [[Anton Pannekoek]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: [[Image:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
5: ...ew York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] who ...
7: ...he dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violat...
11: ...ulius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstru... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: Akhmatova was born in [[Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been ...
7: ...olay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...ith several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...ov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activities considered anti-Soviet; Akhmatova was effectively silence...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more pro... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...udents, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her ...
8: ...she lived with her family, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her f...
14: Upon seeing pastels by [[Edgar Degas]] in an art dealer's window, though, she knew she was not alone ...
16: ... circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: ... of techniques. Nearly one third of her paintings depict a mother and child portrayed in intimate rela... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ther, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged ...
7: ...tten by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was p...
9: ... film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retir...
11: ...s driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
13: ...March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for enter... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ... the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccentricity and ...
8: ...lay on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...es and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never g...
12: ...hool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during t...
14: ...an Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshi... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...cence]" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her g...
9: ...ore flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fa...
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