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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...in]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship could r...
3: ...ated by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accepted that the ea...
5: ... the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...iversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]].
9: ...Scandinavians, Columbus's voyages led to a relatively quick, general and lasting recognition of the ex... - 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - 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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architec...
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
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...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...ia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citize...
12: ...ool for work and to marry an older man. Golda rebelled and ran away. She went to Denver, where her o...
16: ...d began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The cou...
22: ... Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
9: ...on the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...a", as she called central [[India]]. Besant actively courted Hindu opinion more than former Theosophi...
13: ...r]], as the boy was proposed as the incarnate vessel for the Christ. Jiddu Krishnamurti and his brothe...
15: ... had been made the leader. [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/star.htm] This destroyed Besant's spiri...
17: ...urvived by her daughter, [[Mabel Besant-Scott| Mabel]]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...my and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by ...
6: ...child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name:...
14: ...ndependent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], w...
19: ...aim was to improve the number of seats the party held in the [[Reichstag]].
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activities; i... - 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... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ... Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Dou...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Cur...
5: .... Eventually, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[c...
7: ...active]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pi...
9: ...April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after ...
11: ...l]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ... 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "artichoke".
14: ... French, German, ancient history, philosophy and religion. Afterward, she was appointed to a job as a ...
21: ...ng the sieges of Petersburg and Richmond. Barton delivered aid to soldiers of both the North and South...
23: ...ered lectures on her war experiences, which were well received. She met [[Susan B. Anthony]] and began...
31: ... founded on [[May 21]], [[1881]]. [[John D. Rockefeller]] gave money to create a national headquarters... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: '''Jane Arminda Delano''', born [[March 12]], [[1862]] in [[Montour F...
3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ndent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ...nrollment of nurses. In [[1902]] she returned to Bellevue Hospital in New York City as the director of...
8: ...gency response teams were organized for disaster relief and over 8,000 registered nurses were trained ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...s a [[metropolitan area]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metr...
6: ...destroyed in attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], C...
12: ...ge of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
14: ...ks into three branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] region.
16: ...o the Nile. These western areas, built on the model of [[Paris]] by [[Ismail the Magnificent]] in the... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
24: ...to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing descriptions of events a...
28: ...of popular leadership of his second cousin, [[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through h...
31: ...ism and corporate authority; in December 1765 he delivered a speech before the governor and council in...
33: ...ular side in this case resulted in his subsequent election to the [[Massachusetts House of Representat...
44: ... first draft along with [[James Bowdoin]] and Samuel Adams. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
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3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...colspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
18: ... of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Caldwell]], [[New Jersey]]</td></tr>
21: ...><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr> - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...gypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...tatus as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman...
5: ...f-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
15: ...om [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (yellow).
19: ...yptian grain, which fed the [[Hellenistic Greece|Hellenistic]] and [[Roman Empire|Roman]] world. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...t and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several millions up to about one hu...
4: ...ation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young-earth belief]).
9: ... Century]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred t...
15: ...th]] pointed out that if two layers of rock at widely differing locations contained similar fossils, t...
17: ...construct a history of the Earth, though their timelines were inexact as they did not know how long it...
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