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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
28: | [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
37: | [[1933]]
53: ...ash; [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added) - 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
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
26: ...s|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...rah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...eled around the United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [...
5: ...hts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady...
9: ...lorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...n afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
7: ... for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophi...
9: ...y in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...ed Hindu opinion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blav...
13: Soon after Besant's inheritance of the presidency, in [[1909]], Leadbeater discovered [[Jiddu Kr... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ther, né¥ 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]]
13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...er aeroplane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G...
10: ...d for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack ...
16: ... South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridg...
18: ...o [[India]] in [[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]]...
23: *[[List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure]] - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...ent Millay, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1933]]'''Edna St. Vincent Millay''' ([[February 22]], ...
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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) tow...
9: ...the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in thi...
11: ...erimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives ...
13: ...nd visual impressions; Woolf is at her best in rendering self-soliloquizing existences whose perpetual...
15: ..., near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: '''Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1910]]–[[July...
3: ...0040420CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, disp...
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...iety]]. In [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winsto... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...ury]], with penetrating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized be...
8: ...nder [[Paul Gordan]], and rapidly built a world-wide reputation, but the [[University of G?ngen]] refu...
9: ...aculty would also mean letting her vote in the academic senate. Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the s...
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: ...ether's theorem are part of the fundamentals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the pr... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...'''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of al...
7: ...ng as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometim...
9: ...er as a "[[Frank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital...
14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ...ormance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much to solidify her standing as a jaz... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta...
7: ...Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...itle song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a ...
11: ...her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popula...
13: ...on]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon a... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
2: ...ge:Bonnie_and_Clyde.jpg|thumb|200px|Bonnie and Clyde clowning.]]
3: ... the [[central United States]] during the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Ba...
5: ...he attention of the [[American]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the ...
11: ...personal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
13: == Clyde == - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...lavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...oth her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a nonconformist...
7: ...o have entered [[Tibet]] to study with the [[Ascended Master]]s for two years. She returned to Russia ...
9: ...out of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in the ...
15: ...wledge is consistent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...dia sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare ...
7: ...e daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pear...
9: ...letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ism|Pentecostal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at t...
19: ...health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preach... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ... weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ...[[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended.
7: ... was named for her at the [[Institut des Sciences de l'Homme]] in Lyon. - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
7: ... She was the navigator of the crew that also included [[Polina Osipenko]] and [[Valentina Grizodubova]...
9: ...es ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...aining, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:
13: ... combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara Kazarinova and Aleksandr Gridnev.
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