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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
7: ... and defeat of the South, attacks on civilian targets and destruction of infrastructure, followed by e...
9: ...d the [[Civil Rights Act of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal gov...
13: ...cipate in Southern governments; were called [[carpetbaggers]] by southerners, and were widely perceive...
19: ...to Reconstruction; this theory characterizes the settlement of that election as the "[[Compromise of 1...
21: ...eparate but equal" facilities. "Equal" was interpreted loosely, but this provision did ultimately prov... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
5: ...epEmDownOnTheFarm.jpg|thumb|right|250px|A 1919 sheet music cover]]
7: ...] asked, concerning the [[United States]] troops returning from [[World War I]], "How Ya Gonna Keep '...
14: ...ection of [[Warren G. Harding]], who promised a "return to normalcy" after the traumatic years of Worl...
16: ...et]], which rose to record high levels, which in retrospect after the crash were dangerously inflated.
32: While in retrospect the 1920s are sometimes seen as the last gasp of [[Laissez-faire capi...
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- 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.
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrende...
19: * 1918 - The [[German Revolution]] begins when 40,000 [[... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
51: *[[Henry Adams|Adams, Henry]], (1838-1918), author
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
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4: *[[Pope Agapetus I|Agapetus I, Pope]], (pope 535-536)
5: *[[Pope Agapetus II|Agapetus II, Pope]], (pope 946-955)
6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
7: ...jit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ... seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do...
10: ...e Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...stic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The...
22: # [[Jakie Astor|John Jacob Astor]] (born 1918) - 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...
10: ... the [[Irish (UK) general election, 1918|December 1918 General Election]], while in prison, Markiewicz w...
12: ...egan-Quinn]] was apointed to the then junior cabinet post of [[Irish Minister for Community, Rural and... - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
1: ...renBlixen.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|Blixen in Kenya, 1918]]
7: ...e plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, pub...
30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, US... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: '''Nina Hamnett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December...
3: Hamnett was born in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wale...
5: ...ving there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Ro...
7: ...tminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with ano...
9: ...tt.jpg]]</td></tr><tr><td><center>'''- ''Nina Hamnett'' -'''</center></td></tr></table> - 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 ...
25: ...tion]]" as a part of [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actre... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked together with Hahn for 30 years, each of them leading a...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
10: ...te President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...ed the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - 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: ...e so occupied in [[New York City|New York]], she met her second husband, Harold Stewart McPherson, an ...
21: ...mage:GospelCar.jpeg]]<small><br>The "Gospel Car", 1918</small></div> - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
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]].
16: ... Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ..., which was unheard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her ...
5: ... was hampered by [[World War II]], Blankers-Koen set several world records during that period, in even...
7: ...entury" by the [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
11: ... better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics.
13: ...race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon made the Dutch team, altho... - Hair (11457 bytes)
6: ...beards. The trench warfare between [[1914]] and [[1918]] exposed men to [[lice]] and [[flea]] infestatio...
11: ...ple [[shave]], style or adorn their hair for aesthetic reasons.
13: ...hair advances outward at about a third of a millimeter per day. After three to six months, body hair g...
17: ..., the nipples, the palms of hands, the soles of feet, certain external genital areas, and the navel. ...
19: ...pia]], possibly occurring in the hominid lineage between 5 and 7 million years ago. As a wading animal... - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
3: '''Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman''' ([[February 13]], [[1...
5: ...5 in [[Independence, Missouri]]. Christened Elizabeth Virginia, she grew up as "Bessie." Harry Truman,...
7: ...where their daughter [[Margaret Truman|Mary Margaret]] was born in [[1924]].
13: ... wanted to do after her husband left office was "return to Independence" although she had briefly ente...
15: ... for the reelection campaign of Sen. [[Thomas Eagleton]] ([[United States Democratic Party|D]]-[[Misso... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
33: ...y|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...ory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a b...
54: ...nt of the United States on the National Union ticket headed by Republican Abraham Lincoln in [[1864]] ...
58: ===Cabinet=== - 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... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
20: ...nged pants several times a day. He was called "Chet" by family and friends. Interestingly, Chester A...
33: ...ed it with more employees than it really needed, retaining some for their loyalty as party workers rat...
37: ...[[United States Republican Party|Republican]] ticket with President [[James Garfield]] for the term be...
40: ...he indignation of the Stalwart Republicans, the onetime Collector of the Port of New York became, as P...
42: ... Government positions obtainable only through competitive written examinations. The system protected e... - 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 ...
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