Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
69: ...[[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center)
95: | [[Minnesota]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...t utility vehicle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For th...
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...fonso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
15: *[[Esko Aho|Aho, Esko]], (born 1954), Finnish prime minister
16: ...Ahtisaari, Martti]], (born 1937), UN diplomat & president of [[Finland]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
26: ...Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese queen
28: *[[Joseph Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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...
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."
18: # [[William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]] (1907-1966) - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of l...
5: ...name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French...
7: ...a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in 19...
9: ...ish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Av...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...h Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and th...
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... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...g for stardom, and she landed a leading role in a 1907 [[Broadway]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', w...
9: ... reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ... star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and ...
13: ...plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...74]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|femin...
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 ...
21: ...o "wives" to chat. Alice was four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[...
8: In [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectro...
10: ...ein|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, ...
12: ... as "Woman of the Year" by the National Women's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Meda...
17: ...t Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...er]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
6: ...thematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
8: ...gue, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
10: ... the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the [[United States]].
12: ... substantially based on the properties of symmetries. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...allowed her to enter for the Licence of Apothecaries' Hall, which she obtained in [[1865]].
7: ...compatible with her principal work, and she soon resigned them.
9: ...n 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British ...
11: ...ent for the admission of women to the medical profession, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable p...
13: Quick notes: - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...rse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...[[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Florence...
9: ...amily in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...gaged the support of [[Charles Villiers]], then president of the [[Poor Law Board]]. This led to her ...
13: ... of medical care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...;width:200px;margin-left:5px"><center>[[Image:AimeeSempleMcPherson.jpeg|150px|Photograph of McPherson]...
7: ...n hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in the...
9: ...ple who worked with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [...
11: ...;margin-right:5px;text-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</s...
13: ... 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]]. - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: ...er 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World War I]].
7: ...olation of military law. In [[1915]], she was arrested and court-martialled by the Germans for this o...
9: ...t have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." These words are inscribed on her statue in St. Martin'...
13: ...]], [[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]] was named in her honour. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Hun...
4: ...ad]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ...Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yo...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral me...
10: ...d]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ...heir parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, includin...
7: ...zed for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as '...
10: ...adway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...nds. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ... [[New York City]], [[United States]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
4: ... 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed to where they were booked to appear at New Yor...
6: ...earance on the theatrical stage. An immediate success she went on to make her [[London]] stage debut a...
8: .... In the 1895 [[Broadway]] show ''[[The Widow Jones]]'', she introduced "The Bully Song" which became...
10: ...y," with music written by [[George M. Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same ...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).