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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — ... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
19: ... 40,000 [[sailor]]s take over the [[port]] in [[Kiel]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
9: *[[Abati]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist
17: ...e|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
38: *[[Jacob Abbott|Abbott, Jacob]], (1803-1879), American writer
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...ueen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...]] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the t...
9: ...narch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Cobu...
12: ... I of Belgium|Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield]] and widow of [[Karl of Leiningen|Karl, Prince ...
16: ...ion for a child monarch, Victoria would have been eligible to govern the realm as would an adult. In o... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...itcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite po...
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ...member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Marki...
10: ...her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had p...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
1: [[Image:Emmeline_Pankhurst.jpg|frame|Emmeline Pankhurst]]
3: ...truggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ... by her daughters, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]], both of whom w... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference...
15: ...l News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ... that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years o...
6: ...1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace of her course...
8: ...copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
14: ...dow, though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten ...
16: ...onism|impressionists]] and her work hung in the [[1879]] impressionist show. An active member of the imp... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...e novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological pe...
5: ...c scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...he was brought up with a narrowly [[low church]] religion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer,...
10: ...rried to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans. - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...iukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He managed to conv...
5: ...other was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schubert]] ...
7: ...ing solid]]s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormou...
13: ...red her uncle [[Pyotr Vasilievich Krukovsky]], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for math... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...s of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United...
7: ...[Meuse River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted ...
10: ...hind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York Cit...
11: ...from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]].]]
12: ...d to have convinced Charles to believe in her by relating a private prayer that he had made the previo... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
1: '''Lillian Russell''' ('''Helen Louise Leonard''') ([[December 4]],[[1861]] - [...
3: [[Image:LillianRussell.jpg|thumb|Lillian Russell]]
5: ..., she and her mother left for [[New York]] where Helen was offered a role in the [[chorus]] of [[Gilbe...
7: ...r some of the biggest stars in show business. Russell's appearance caused such a stir that she stayed ...
9: Not only was her [[voice]] celebrated but her beauty caused quite a stir among t... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ... [[Hawaiian language|Hawai'ian]] spelling ''''ukulele''' is also sometimes seen.
3: ...source of the re-entrant tuning of the modern ukulele.
5: ... a great grandaughter of Manuel Nunes (mentioned below)
7: ...ived from Portugal in Hawai'i. One of these, Manuel Nunes, was Bill Tapia's neighbor. He sold Bill h...
9: The ukulele comes in four sizes (from smallest to largest): ... - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
10: | place of birth=Shadwell, [[Virginia]]
14: | wife= None; wife [[Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson|Martha]] died before he took office
20: .... President [[John F. Kennedy]] welcomed 49 [[Nobel Prize]] winners to the [[White House]] in [[1962]...
25: ... and civil culture. The [[Continental Congress]] delegated task of writing the Declaration which inclu...
27: ...]; it included automatic [[door]]s, the first swivel [[chair]], and other convenient devices invented ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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34: ...nt Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr., Ellen (Nellie) Grant, and Jesse Root Grant.
39: ... bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey | Molino del Rey]] and [[Battle of Chapultepec | Chapultepec]]...
41: ...uld be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June...
43: ...e of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned a serious reverse i... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
1: ... Belgi맧, [[German language|German]]: ''K?reich Belgien'') is a country in [[Western Europe]], border...
3: ...ed in its complex institutions and [[Politics of Belgium|political history]].
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5: ...ique'''<br>'''Koninkrijk Belgi맧'<br>'''K?reich Belgien'''</big>
7: {| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9; text-align:c... - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
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59: ...[Mollos]] north of present-day [[La Paz]] also developed advanced agricultural societies that had diss...
67: ...ts seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]] fields, together with the port of [[Antofagasta]], to ...
69: ...governments controlled by the economic and social elites followed [[laissez-faire]] [[Capitalism|capit...
74: .... Denied its victory in the [[1951]] presidential elections, the MNR led the successful 1952 revolutio... - Peru (12264 bytes)
2: .... Peru is rich in cultural anthropology, and is well-known as the ''cradle of the [[Inca empire]]''.
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38: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]''' || [[.pe]]
48: ... important political force. Once again, between [[1879]] and [[1883]], Peru and Bolivia made an alliance...
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