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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
161: | [[1895]] — [[1904]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings) - 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]]... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: ...en up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: .... After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich Universi...
14: ...ndent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], which ...
16: ... life, Luxemburg was to remain the principal theoretician of the Polish Social Democrats, and led the ...
19: ...y changes in the whole environment of production methods occurred. She wanted the Revisionists to leav... - 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 t...
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...
31: ..., France awarded her the [[Legion of Honor]] in [[1904]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became on...
9: ...cademy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series o...
11: ...film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving ...
13: ...rried Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and ...
15: ...[Charles 'Buddy' Rogers|Charles 'Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Bo... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...n their husband's absence and is therefore interpreted as a feminist push for expanded female roles; a...
9: ...etermined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: ...99]] she began to study the [[Latin]] poets, and between that time and 1405, as she herself declares, ...
15: ...ay of defence against those who objected to her pretensions as a moralist. [[Henry IV of England]] des...
19: ...ion of Paris by the English and Burgundians, she retired to a [[convent]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...h; [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...cmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's...
10: ...aughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...f was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbur...
7: ...ll-known [[editor]] and [[literary critic]]) in [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], ...
9: ...led as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], ...
13: ...imultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative en...
15: ...ur life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481). - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: '''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]],...
6: ...to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Massachusetts]]. Her father, Captain Stephen Barton, was a fa...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her ...
12: ...need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the st...
14: ...Clinton, New York, where she studied analytic geometry, calculus, astronomy, mathematics and natural s... - Painting (4567 bytes)
8: ...st known '''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old....
34: ...]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying time, etc.
39: *Heat-set oils
52: ... the distinctive visual elements, techniques and methods that typify an ''individual'' artist's work. ...
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [[four dime... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...a very rare [[woodwind]] instrument invented in [[1904]] by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel GmbH in [[Wiesbad...
3: ...denburg Concerto]], where it played the high trumpet part in the last movement. In [[1915]], Strauss r...
7: ...emely small numbers, with production ceasing altogether in [[1955]] due to lack of interest. Apparentl...
11: ...g an alternative to the less-than-satisfactory musette oboe in F or Eb. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...es. During the [[Cold War]], the President was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world,...
12: ...stitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to become President. The president must ...
14: ... remove or amend this requirement, but none have yet been successful.
16: ...orge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
21: ...ary. Since 1933, with the ratification of [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Amen... - 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...
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...
52: ...ing elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?" He often opposed the Republican-controlled ... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...pic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city...
19: ...in particular [[Aristander of Telmessus]], interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, pa...
21: ...with exact knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frighten...
23: ...e five native villages scattered along the strip between Lake Mareotis and the sea, according to a his...
25: ...ion, Alexander left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city. His general, Ptolemy (later [[P... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...define. This article describes the modern dating methods used to arrive at the age of the Earth and ou...
4: ...cientific revolution]], the age of the Earth was determined by religious [[Creation myth|creation tale...
6: ...ought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
19: ...oposed that the features of the Earth were in perpetual change, eroding and reforming continuously, an...
23: ...created as a completely molten ball of rock, and determined the amount of time it took for the ball to... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...'s [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]]'''.
15: ...by an [[ice sheet]] that is, on average, 2.5 kilometers thick.
24: ...arctica is covered by the [[West Antarctic Ice Sheet]].
32: ...ssert the right to do so. All claim areas except Peter I Island (see below) are sectors extending to t... - Samoa (9435 bytes)
10: ...ign="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Samoa|In Detail]])
25: | [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]]
31: ...es by area|Ranked 165th]] <br> 2944 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 0.3%
48: | '''[[Top-level domain|Internet TLD]]'''
57: ... became territories of the [[United States]] in [[1904]] and today are known as [[American Samoa]]. The ... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...njoys access to the sea through a narrow 40 km stretch, following the [[Congo river]] into the [[Gulf ...
44: ...ral European Time|CET]], [[Eastern European Time|EET]] |
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57: ... was populated as early as 10,000 years ago, and settled in the [[7th century|7th]] and [[8th century|... - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
13: ...(Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective [[March 9]], 1904). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cros...
22: The Maryland Secretary of State publishes a "Protocol for the Marylan...
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