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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
69: ... — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center)
95: | [[Minnesota]]
96: | [[Saint Paul, Minnesota|Saint Paul]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
16: ...Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...ge:Victoria Mary of Teck.jpg|thumb|250px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bon...
3: ...[[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May''...
5: ...ls built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child an...
11: ...ting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [[museum]]s. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]]...
4: ...renfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], becam...
6: ... Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|...
8: ...House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention...
10: ... and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set." - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...[[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She i...
6: ...[1903]], and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
10: ... time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: When she was 14, her mother suggested that she give up school for work and to marry ... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ...nty, New York|Rochester, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
9: ...ates of the complete legal equality of the two sexes, and as a public speaker and writer. From [[1868]...
11: ...nd nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."''
13: ...ow the procedure endangered women's health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grou... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...g eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophis...
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]]...
4: ... both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with [[freedom o...
7: ...cal Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
9: ...iety in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...nist Party of Germany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]...
6: ...then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - she gave her bi...
8: ...s managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: ...lly able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist membe... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...self imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...her native England, she moved to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
11: Christabel Pankhurst died in [[Los Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Me... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: '''(Estelle) Sylvia Pankhurst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - ...
5: She was born in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], a daughter of [[Dr. Richard Pankhu...
7: ...ne. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ... set up the [[East London Federation of Suffragettes]] (ELFS), which over the years evolved politicall...
13: ...retain it as a personal organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to fo... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...ndash; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...urgh]], she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that value...
6: ...llow male students, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old maste...
8: ...ishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled a...
16: ...] impressionist show. An active member of the impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friend... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...[[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art Sch...
7: ...' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[...
11: ...to shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...e town, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]].
15: ...ted States]]. The poet [[Aleister Crowley]] unsuccessfully sued her and the publisher for libel over a... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...rted by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
17: ...returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by t...
19: ...eight, she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist p...
8: ...) concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to...
10: ...ather was kind, but deeply wrapped up in his studies and distant from his family. He was also still de...
12: ...ls she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...d critic [[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a L... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
4: ...s and driving personality to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department ...
6: ...ed Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ...ho recognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "''Wings''," she ...
10: ... adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...iral '''Grace Murray Hopper''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early compute...
3: ...r in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aike...
7: ...[[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Mauchly|Mauchly]] Compu...
9: ...lish rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: Prof. Dr. '''Maria G?rt-Mayer''' ([[June 28]], [[1906]] - [[February 20]], [[1972]]) was born Maria G?r...
3: ...ames Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here...
7: ...e Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ... waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles, each circle enclosed within another. Then imagin... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...kerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...can American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France...
7: ...llar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding...
9: ...ul films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ...y binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and becam... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...erhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
2: ...tes that humans have been painting for about 6 times as long as they have been using written language....
4: ...rocess of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...ros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
12: == Painting techniques == - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...]], and the [[Central Asia|Central Asian]] countries [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Uzbekistan]] and [[Turkmenista...
3: ... sq km (16 per sq mi). Population in [[2005]] was estimated at 15,100,500 [http://www.stat.kz/en/info/...
9: ...9;ахстан<br>(Respublika Kazakhstan)'''</big>
34: | '''Largest city'''
37: | '''[[President of Kazakhstan|President]]'''
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