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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]]
184: | [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole...
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - 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: 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
27: *[[Chingiz Aitmatov|Aitmatov, Chingiz]], (born 1928), [[Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyz]] author - 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. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...te House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ... [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the [[New De...
5: ...ady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...side marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ork|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Fr... - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
7: *[[Nellie McClung|Nellie Mooney McClung]] (a famous [[suffragist]] and ...
8: ...|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]], and
15: .... Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1928]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> S.C.R. 276, The Supreme Court...
18: *the act exclusively used the word "he" to refer to senators.
20: ...led the exclusion of women from public office "a relic of days more barbarous than ours." Because the ... - 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. ... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
5: ... as a danger both political and religious. Her models are [[Thucydides]], [[Polybius]] and [[Xenophon]...
7: ...f Anna Comnena's life is given in the [[1999]] novel ''[[Anna of Byzantium]]'' by [[Tracy Barrett]].
11: ...e Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928 - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
1: [[Image:Amelia_earhart_1.jpg|thumb|190px|Amelia Earhart]]
2: '''Amelia Mary Earhart''' ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[Ju...
6: ... provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's pare...
8: ...king lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought ...
10: ...r life began to include George Putnam. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlan... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ...a's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...ly full sister, Anastasia, was born in 1894. Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasiona...
12: ...anges in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German language...
14: ...irst collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attentio...
16: ...t Akhmatova until the 1940s. Describing the Koktebel community, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]]... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...oomsbury]], forming the initial kernel for the intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. ...
9: ... Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the forem...
11: ...consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the vari...
13: ...ser to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the A...
15: ...d: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible tim... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer prog...
3: ...bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in [[1928]] and pursued her graduate education at [[Yale Un...
5: ...rom the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators...
7: ... first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-...
12: ... was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr.]]. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...rsity]] in 1929. She set out in 1925 to do her field work in [[Polynesia]]. In 1926 Mead joined the ...
7: ... her premiere work, ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' ([[1928]]), based on research she conducted as a graduate...
14: ...ce as "unavoidable periods of adjustment." Boas felt that a study of the problems faced by adolescent...
16: ...r adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilisation? Under different conditio...
22: ...it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observation that young Samoan wom... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
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2: '''Anna Caroline Maxwell''' [[March 14]], [[1851]] - [[January 2]], [[192...
8: ...ed and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the uniform for US army nurses. During ...
10: ...ennedy Tod]] of [[New York]] invited her and her fellow nurses to be guests on his country estate, Inn...
12: ... textbook: ''Practical Nursing''. Maxwell Hall ([[1928]]-[[1984]]) at Presbyterian Hospital was named fo... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...batino—a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—B...
13: ... to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry ch...
15: ...6]], she starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered,...
17: ... given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatri... - 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... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]],...
4: ...Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[193...
6: ... She used this camera to make her first and most well-known [[film]], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' ...
8: ...Foundation Fellowship for "Creative Work in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Gran...
14: ...''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]...
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