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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
72: *[[Philip Abelson|Abelson, Philip Hauge]] (1913-2004)
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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...oria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum]]
5: ...mily]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the ...
13: ...g [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany...
19: Despite this setback, Queen Victoria still favoured Princess May a...
28: ...2]]<td> married [[Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon|Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]] ([[4 August]] [[1900]] – [[30... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...ster, Eva Gore-Booth, were close friends of the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house,...
6: ...involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish nationalist movemen...
8: ...] her husband moved to the [[Ukraine]] and never returned. Shortly thereafter she joined [[James Conno...
12: ...egan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Irish Minister for Community, Rural and...
22: *[http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/ireland.html Detailed Countess Markiewcz info on TheWildGeese.com] - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ter named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secretary of Energy]]) in [[2000]]. She was the first wo...
7: ...is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget]], the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housin...
9: ...mendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected by the state legis...
11: ...ate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]], D-Nev., to set the Democrats' agenda and priorities. Reid was el... - 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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...– [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...n to take more [[militant]] action for the suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herse...
7: ... as a Coalition candidate for Parliament in the Smethwick riding but was defeated. Leaving her native ...
11: ...ia]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Santa Monica, California]]. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
6: ...rican Civil Rights Movement]] and worked as a secretary for the [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]], [[...
14: ...965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to reside in Detroit.
27: ...legal challenge to segregation laws (''see [[Claudette Colvin]] and [[Mary Louise Smith]]''). The sele...
35: After a lifetime of activity fighting [[racism]], Parks was awa... - 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 ...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's B... - 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. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...nce. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] ...
7: ...nson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...ings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Cho...
17: ...his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended to Bessie, wr...
19: ...what happened to Bessie Smith in 1937 in their hometown," Lomax wrote. "Wounded in a local car wreck, ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...Morgan Kennedy, a widower and devout [[Methodism|Methodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his jun...
9: ...r defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ...ta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
15: ...n|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
19: ... what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
3: ... '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who was accused...
11: ... more complicated rumor is the most unlikely and yet the most persistent. Mata Hari was said to be unu...
15: ... film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in the leading role.
17: ...rrorist attack in [[Shenyang_City|Fengtian]] in [[1913]]. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: [[Image:Harriet_Tubman_pic.jpg|thumb|225px|Harriet Tubman in 1880, Image provded by [http://classroo...
2: ...rchester County, Maryland]], died [[March 10]], [[1913]] in [[Auburn, New York]]), also known as ''Black...
5: ... Born Araminta Ross, she later took the name Harriet after her mother. Around [[1844]] she married Joh...
9: ...to follow. On her way she was assisted by sympathetic [[Quaker]]s, members of the [[Abolitionist]] mo...
11: == Methods == - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: '''Vivien Leigh''' ([[November 5]], [[1913]] – [[July 7]], [[1967]]) was an [[England|...
7: ...aulette Goddard]] was close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
9: ... and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair...
11: ... the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
15: ...ld, copper-red or yellow to white, blue, blue-violet, lavender, tan, maroon and purple.
25: ...e [[flower|styles]] divide towards the apex into petaloid branches (see : pollination).
28: ...l form, a considerable number of named garden varieties. ''Iris unguicularis'' (or ''stylosa'') is a r...
30: ...cayed leaves or fresh coco-fibre refuse. To this set belong ''milifolia'', ''junonia'', ''danfordiae'...
35: [[Image:Iris pallida.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Sweet Iris (''Iris pallida'')]] - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...y thorny [[shrub]]s or [[liana|climbers]], and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2-5 m tall, rarely ...
23: ...) 5-9 (-13) leaflets and basal stipules; the leaflets have a serrated margin, and often a few small th...
25: ...red. The ovary is inferior, developing below the petals and sepals.
29: ...ooks, which aid the rose in hanging onto other vegetation when growing over it. Some species such as '...
31: ... including [[Emperor Moth]], [[Common Marbled Carpet]], [[Engrailed|The Engrailed]] and [[Coxcomb Prom... - 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... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ates of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
7: ... Party]] politics, but was regarded only as a competent small-town lawyer when he was given the nomina...
11: ...Vice President. He was elected on the Wilson ticket in [[1912]], was reelected in [[1916]] and served...
13: ... (who serves as President of the Senate) as a go-between with the Senate; Wilson took advantage of the...
15: ... insiders wanted him dumped from the [[1916]] ticket. Wilson, after deliberating, ultimately decided ... - 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,...
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