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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
3: {| {{prettytable}}
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
11: ...ury]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
23: ...an]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
28: *[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Nort...
37: *[[Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza|Pierre Savorgan de Brazza]]... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
15: ...tains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be c...
16: ...d|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published.
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
28: * [[1956]] - [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] troops invade [[Hungary]] to crush the [[Hungar... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the cente...
103: ...ahams, Harold]], (1899-1978), track and field athlete
104: *[[Joze Abram|Abram, Joze]], (1875-1938), poet - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...oria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) (...
18: Princess Victoria met her future husband, [[Prince Albert of Saxe-Cobur...
20: ... [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[...
25: ...t Augustus of Hanover. As the young queen was as yet unmarried and childless, Ernest Augustus was also...
29: ...y resigned his commission, allowing Melbourne to return to office. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250px|'''Annie Besan...
5: ...rsion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] an...
7: ...ch of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
9: ...ad been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous presi...
11: ...s on the subcontinent (see also: [[Maha Bodhi Society]]). - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ...or her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the archbishop of...
16: She met [[Edgar Degas]] in [[1874]], and he invited her to exhibit with the [[impre...
21: ... portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings.
29: ...he stopped painting because of near blindness. Nonetheless, she took up the cause of [[women's suffrag...
75: ...n a White Bonnet 1901.jpg|''Simone in a White Bonnet'' (1901) - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [...
12: ...[[ailment]] and was [[interred]] in [[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
15: ...ast pendulous nose, a huge mouth full of uneven teeth and a chin and jawbone ''qui n'en finissent pas'...
19: ...ealistic expectations as well as conservative society. The novel is notable for its deep psychological...
23: ...ll balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
8: ...) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 Gutenberg etext of this book]
13: ...) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367 Gutenberg etext of this book]
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874)
31: ...) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 Gutenberg etext of this book] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...ther was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''...
5: ...bert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]]) via [[Fyodor Fyodor...
7: ...uchy-Kovalevskaya theorem]]) and essentially completed the study of [[rotating solid]]s, applying the ...
9: ...ta No. 8 (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older si...
11: ... childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later ... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: '''Elizabeth Garrett Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 Dec...
5: ...r to their examinations; but in the end the [[Society of Apothecaries]] allowed her to enter for the L...
7: ...into the New hospital for women, and there Dr Garrett worked for over twenty years. In 1870 she obtai...
9: ...which was opened to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Angli... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ... - [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame B...
5: ...sian Empire]]), the daughter of [[Colonel|Col.]] Peter Alexeivich von Hahn and Elena Fadeev. Her mothe...
7: ... herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutti...
11: ...piritualist]] phenomena. Soon they were living together in the "Lamasery" (alternate spelling: "Lamast...
13: ...e was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce was l... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]]. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
4: ...o where they were booked to appear at New York's Metropolitan Theater then at the [[Tony Pastor]] Thea...
6: ...ng six years after which a 21-year-old May Irwin set out on her own. She joined [[Augustin Daly]]'s st...
8: ...ce to repeat the scene on film. In 1896, the [[Kinetoscope]] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The K...
14: ... to a farm near [[Clayton, New York]] where a street would eventually be named in her honor. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
13: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
29: ... on [[April 6]]. The [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congre...
33: ...ried twice, firstly to [[Letitia Christian Tyler|Letitia Christian]] on [[March 29]], [[1813]]. They h...
36: ...ecember 3]], [[1877]]). He was married to [[Elizabeth Priscilla Cooper]] who served as [[First Lady of...
38: *Letitia Christian Tyler ([[May 11]], [[1821]] - [[Dec... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr>
20: ...'' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[...
29: ...e the South. In his own words: "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we...
37: ...re at once appointed [[Daniel Webster]] to be Secretary of State, thus proclaiming his alliance with t...
39: ...xtension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...2]], [[1809]] – [[April 15]], [[1865]]), sometimes called '''Abe Lincoln''' and nicknamed '''Hon...
46: ...of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his many speeches and writings wh...
48: ...ar measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
53: ...d land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the [[Sangamon River...
81: ...orship of the [[Oregon]] Territory. He declined, returning instead to [[Springfield, Illinois]] where,... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
30: ...y moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent...
32: At the age of 17, Grant received a cadetship to the [[United States Military Academy]] at ...
39: ...eracruz]]. He was twice [[brevet (military) | brevet]]ted for bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey |...
41: ...ernor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st ...
43: ...ton]] at the [[Battle of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
20: ...of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|Princeton]], [[New Jersey]]</td></tr>
29: ...publican Party|Republican]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election o...
40: ...r child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved with several men at the time...
46: ... Cleveland vetoed that, too. Cleveland used the veto far more often than any President up to that tim...
50: ...s they held by Government grant, forcing them to return 81,000,000 acres (328,000 km²). He also s...
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