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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
161: | [[1895]] — [[1904]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
23: ...9]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded Darién, oldest surviving Europ... - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
23: Between [[1904]] and [[1906]] her work was interrupted by three ...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...ing painting at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-...
8: ...ly, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her father continued to resi...
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. ...
20: ...]]). [[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
21: ...orward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
15: ...[Charles 'Buddy' Rogers|Charles 'Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Bo... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
9: ...r]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]. At fifteen Christine married ɴienne du Castel, who bec...
11: ... 1405, as she herself declares, she composed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides m...
13: ...eurs du sayge roy Charles'' (1405), valuable as a first-hand picture of Charles V and his court.
15: Her ''Mutation de fortune'', in which she finds room for a great deal of [[history]] and [[phi...
25: ...ved in a manuscript at Longleat. This was edited (1904) for the Roxburghe Club by W.G.F. Warner as ''The... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...e of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausa...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...ll-known [[editor]] and [[literary critic]]) in [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], ...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the...
21: ...s, eventually reaching some of the grimmest battlefields of the war and serving during the sieges of P... - Painting (4567 bytes)
34: ...st.]] Different types of paint are usually identified by the medium that the pigment is suspended or ...
48: *[[Spray paint]] ([[Graffiti]])
70: *[[Graffiti]]
80: *[[Figure painting]]
97: *[[Salvador Dal흝, ([[1904]]-[[1989]]), Catalan artist - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...akness in the romantic orchestra: namely, an insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instrument...
7: ...hone never caught on, due to a number of factors. Firstly, its outlandish name makes immediate recogni...
9: ...serial numbers, but not fitted with keys. Four or five are known to be on display at the Heckel museum... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
11: == Requirements to hold office ==
14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (siste...
25: ...], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<br>
36: ...c Office is a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]...
39: ...d_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the White House.... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
3: ...d had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close...
21: ...act knowledge of their appearance, erects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the...
23: ...t of fishermen and pirates. Behind it there were five native villages scattered along the strip betwe...
51: ...erated him that he completely demolished its fortifications, although he seems to have spared the live... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ars, the exact age of the Earth is difficult to define. This article describes the modern dating metho...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: In the centuries preceding the [[scientific revolution]], the age of the Earth was determine...
8: == First concepts ==
9: ...he founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the ... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ... continent occurred in [[1820]] and the first verified landing in [[1821]]. A [[1513]] map by Admiral ...
8: ...[area]] of 13,200,000 km², Antarctica is the fifth largest continent, after [[Eurasia]], [[Africa...
32: ...to the [[South Pole]], the borders of which are defined by degrees of [[longitude]]. In terms of [[lat...
82: ...dm|60|44|S|44|44|W|}}) [[Orcadas Islands]] (since 1904)({{flag|Argentina}})
87: ...Africa]]n National Antarctic Expeditions), on the Fimbul Coastal Ice Shelf in [[Queen Maud Land]] {{fl... - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ...prising a group of [[island]]s in the South [[Pacific Ocean]]. Previous names are '''German Samoa''' f...
18: | '''[[Official language]]s'''
25: | [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]]
57: ...d]] in [[1914]]. Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence.
64: ...1998]], when he resigned due to health reasons. Tofilau Eti was replaced by his deputy, Tuila'epa Sail... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
16: official_languages = [[French language|French]] ...
50: ...¹ Estimate is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest Internation...
61: ...t also British diplomat [[Roger Casement]], whose 1904 report on the Congo condemned the practice. [[Jos...
65: ===The First Republic (1960–1965)===
67: ... came into existence (June, 1960) Lumumba was its first premier and minister of defense. - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
7: ...s given to Calvert as a result of storming a fortification in battle (the vertical bars approximate th...
11: ...y adopted the Crossland banner, which had the benefit of being red and white (which were seen as "sece...
13: ..., the legislature made a gold cross bottony the official ornament for a flagstaff carrying the Marylan...
20: ...d. Thus, the 2nd and 3rd quarters are a quartered field of red and white, charged with a Greek cross, ...
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