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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
18: ... in diameter from 10-15 cm and has an [[acid]]ic yellow segmented pulp. The numerous [[cultivar]]s inc...
20: ...roduced the [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
22: ...tannically, it was not distinguished from the pummelo until the [[1830s]], when it was given the name ...
24: ...e effects of [[simvastatin]], [[terfenadine]], [[felodipine]], [[nifedipine]], [[verapamil]], [[estrad...
26: ...at the fruit's low [[glycemic index]] is able to help the body's [[metabolism]] burn fat. - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigratio...
7: ...es, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first villages w...
14: ...shed during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|...
18: ...Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
28: ...ntil [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
29: *[[Nate Ackerman|Ackerman, Nathanael Leedon]] (born 1978)
32: ... Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - 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
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ... - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Senate|United ...
3: ...raway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ... States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
15: ...pulist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to campa... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughou...
9: ... Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York City|N...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing.
21: ...ning in confinement for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to conn... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
7: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA)
31: * ''Karen Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-1962'' (posthumous 1996, Denmark) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ...rsity]] in [[1955]]. Her novel [[Beloved (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [...
6: ...Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregation of literature from ...
8: ...h of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first Afri...
14: ==Novels== - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[ph...
11: ...l of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...icials). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but...
22: ...[We The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]). - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...eminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent mos...
13: ... was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
19: ...rge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highly...
21: ...ving the two "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one i...
23: ...rian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values ... - 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: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...ith a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secreta...
8: She became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman t...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]]...
16: ...ited States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]]. - 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... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...cked such materials as chalk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and brief...
10: ...lane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she lear...
14: ... Ultimately, she walked off the set because she felt the script stereotyped blacks. Her ultimate aim...
16: ...r not to fly it. Coleman did not put on her seatbelt, because she was planning a parachute jump and...
18: ...een honored in several ways since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the fir... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer prog...
3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
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.]]. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: '''Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg''' ([[August 1]], [[1905]] ...
5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
9: ...], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...n the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]] a...
5: ... shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Euge...
7: ...spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ...ics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
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...
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