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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
3: {| {{prettytable}}
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (of... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
63: *[[Richard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - 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]]). - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
13: ...gal birth control clinic in the US (renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). Tha... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazi...
5: ... birthday and she was buried in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
35: *Cartas perto do Cora磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with [[Fernando Sabino]]) - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...nger sister, Muriel. This time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alc...
8: ...employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up wi...
10: ...hen the crew returned to the States, they were greeted with a ticker-tape parade in New York and a rec...
14: ...d the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
20: ... 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) would al... - 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. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...first woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional an...
5: ... was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poe...
7: ...en years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: Her reputation was damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied war effort d...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920): - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
6: ...o tease her by commenting that French women were better than African-American women because French wom...
8: At the barbershop, Coleman meet many influential men from the black community, in...
10: ... to [[Paris, France|Paris]] on [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flig...
12: ... [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the United States. Invited to important e...
14: ... about her life. Ultimately, she walked off the set because she felt the script stereotyped blacks. ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physi...
5: ...father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped th...
9: ...the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ... was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been t...
15: ... is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ... [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and al...
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... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des ...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
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]]. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: ...ildren born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]])....
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...Berling''). He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] a... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...neLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labelled the ''[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]...
3: ...and Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and o...
8: ... to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down ...
10: ...topped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on...
14: ...; her first on [[grass court|grass]] — and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Do... - 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... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
10: ...ers active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries include C. Jeffries (who built primari...
13: ...s through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, leaving three fingers free for no...
15: === Duet concertinas ===
16: Various '''duet system''' concertinas, which are much more rarely...
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