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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
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 people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
4: ...i Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria]] (1993-...
7: ...|Abancourt, Charles d']], (1758-1792), French statesman
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (god)|Apollo]]
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
18: ...Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher - 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. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: ...sh_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Countess Markiewicz]]
4: ...ved as a child at the [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. C...
8: ...e imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...m prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first inc...
12: ...r]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Ministries of the First Dᩬ|Second Ministry]] and the [[Thi... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...(whom [[George W. Bush]] later named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2...
5: ... in [[2000]], but was elected to the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]]. Stabenow was considered the...
7: ...Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry]], and the [[U.S. Senate Special Committee on ...
9: ...mendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected by the state legis...
11: ... D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[To... - 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... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...arrested.jpeg|thumb|right|330px|Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to make room ...
2: ...ey''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Move...
4: ...er; most of her adult life she worked as a seamstress.
8: ...second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct...
10: ...as lifted. This event helped spark many other protests against [[segregation]]. In helping in this boy... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
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...
15: ...tress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock." Upon hearing o... - 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... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ... [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge inf...
5: ...nce. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] ...
7: ...s around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], a...
9: ...panied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section-... - 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]]. - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...ari, [[striptease|exotic dancer]] and convicted [[espionage|spy]], made her name synonymous with ''[[f...
5: ...sian language|Indonesian]]. She was also a [[courtesan]] who may have had affairs with many military o...
7: ...the stories about the fortunes of entire nations resting on Mata Hari should be regarded as myths.
11: ...ly unlikely to be true, as it bears a suspicious resemblance to [[Puccini]]'s popular opera, ''[[Tosca...
13: "[[Harlot]], yes. But [[traitor]]ess? Never!" —attributed to Mata Hari, on trial... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...[guerrilla]], [[farmhand]], [[lumberjack]], laundress and [[cook]], refugee organizer, raid leader and...
5: ...uffered intermittent bouts of [[narcolepsy]] the rest of her life.
7: == Escape and abolitionist career ==
9: ...s of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
13: ...them to recapture them. This would amuse the whites who would assume the ineffectual chicken chaser c... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: ...in [[Roehampton]], England, along with fellow actress-to-be [[Maureen O'Sullivan]]. She then went on t...
7: ...ting "talent search" in which many popular actresses were considered for the role opposite [[Clark Gab...
9: ...ime, both were married (Olivier to actress [[Jill Esmond]] who was pregnant when the affair began).
11: ... year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Asparagales]]}}
11: ...vision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Species}}
16: ...pplied either to the genus, or to any of the species within it. It is also applied to various subdivi...
19: ==Description==
20: There are many species of ''Iris'', widely distributed throughout the no... - Rose (15436 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_ordo_entry | taxon = [[Rosales]]}}
12: ...ivision | color = lightgreen| plural_taxon = Species}}
14: <small>References:<br />
20: == Description ==
21: ...orny [[shrub]]s or [[liana|climbers]], and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2-5 m tall, rarely reac... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...x|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...f]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: ...During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a ...
7: ...emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ates of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ...ening to future President [[Benjamin Harrison]] present a case. Marshall studied law at [[Wabash Coll...
7: ...ut was not successful in passing much of his progressive platform through the state legislature, nor i...
9: == Vice Presidency ==
11: ...], was reelected in [[1916]] and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Marshall in... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
17: | '''Successor:''' || [[Andrew Johnson]]
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
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