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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing...
197: | [[1924]] — [[1932]] - 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]]... - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
10: | place of birth=[[Milton, Massachusetts]]
19: ...orge Herbert Walker Bush''' ( born [[12 June ]] [[1924]] ) was the 41st [[President of the United States...
24: ...ended [[Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstra... - 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.
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected...
25: ...[Erwin Rommel]] leads his forces on a five-month retreat. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
56: ...abbar|Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem]], (born 1947), US athlete
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dune...
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. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...er American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family...
6: ...he rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...ning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ... her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later b...
14: She returned to Milwaukee at the urging of her father whe... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
1: [[Image:MillicentFawcett.jpg|frame|Millicent Fawcett]]
3: ... British [[suffragist]] (as opposed to a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and an ...
5: ...ent of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[18...
7: ... still preserved in the name of the [[Fawcett Society]].
9: ...h female doctor, and the mother of [[Philippa Fawcett]], who famously came above the [[senior wrangler... - 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... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...intings of desert flowers, which are often interpreted as [[Yoni|yonic]] symbols. Her mature style str...
8: ...z was especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.
12: ...eat deal of attention and commanded high prices. Yet O'Keeffe tired of the scene in New York and spent...
19: * [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/okeeffe_g.html ''America... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
33: ...ganda]] by U.S. patriots, trying to put their Soviet allies in [[World War II]] under the best possibl... - 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. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...berg]], [[Paul Dirac]] and [[Wolfgang Pauli]]. In 1924 she passed the University's arbiter entrance exam...
5: ... received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. J...
7: ...d pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is...
17: ...ia Goeppert Mayer symposium each year bringing together female researchers to discuss current science. - 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 ...
23: ...ld give sermons through a bullhorn. On the road between sermons, she would sit in the back seat typin... - 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). - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[A...
5: She was born '''Greta Lovisa Gustafsson''' in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]...
8: ...her. He cast her in a small part 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... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...er Olympics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rin...
10: ...published in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello...
12: ..., and finally the shipowner [[Niels Onstad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern...
17: *''[[Seven Days for Elizabeth]]'' ([[1927]]) - 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... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...es because they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
11: * ''Safety'' - it is often safer to locate the train's powe...
13: ... locomotives mean that the costly motive power assets can be moved around as needed.
14: ...ther. At some times, locomotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa.
23: ...ical. ''Fairy Queen'', built in [[1855]]; plying between [[New Delhi]] and [[Alwar]] in [[India]], is ...
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