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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
193: | [[1919]] — [[1928]] (Legislative Building) - 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... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]]. - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
27: *[[Chingiz Aitmatov|Aitmatov, Chingiz]], (born 1928), [[Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyz]] author
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
22: ...dren: a son, Menachem; and a daughter, Sarah. In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor c...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]] - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
1: ...The Valiant Five''' or '''The Famous Five''' were five [[Canada|Canadian]] women who, in [[1927]] aske...
5: ...Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
6: ...rryat Parlby]] (farm women's leader, activist and first woman [[Cabinet minister]] in Alberta);
8: ...Kinney|Louise Crummy McKinney]] (one of two women first elected to the [[House of Commons of Canada]],...
11: ...of Canada|Governor General]] shall... summon qualified Persons to the Senate; and ... every Person so ... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...khurst''' ([[July 14]], [[1858]] - [[June 14]], [[1928]]) was one of the founders of the British [[suffr...
7: ...isoned several times, but, because of her high profile, she did not endure the same privations as many... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support ...
7: ...ly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] ...
9: ... and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obscenity laws by sending birth control infor...
13: ... many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
15: In 1928, Sanger resigned as the president of the American... - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: ...eror [[Alexius I|Alexius I Comnenus]], and is the first known female [[historian]].
5: ..., with the result that the language is highly artificial. Her chronology is generally sound when recou...
7: A fictional account of Anna Comnena's life is given in...
11: ...e Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
13: ...DFs/FRANCE2.PDF Anna Comnena, the Alexiad and the First Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...ious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...ility to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mothe...
8: ...om some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her ...
10: ...pman, an attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and...
16: ...he took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started plann... - 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: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
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: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
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 ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ... culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
7: ... public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
12: ...Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ...onstitutes courtesy, modesty, good manners, and definite ethical standards is not universal. It is in...
22: ...k upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observ... - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
8: ...s]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the uniform for US arm...
12: ... textbook: ''Practical Nursing''. Maxwell Hall ([[1928]]-[[1984]]) at Presbyterian Hospital was named fo... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]...
21: ...ally divorced), and American artist Robert Brady (1928-1986, married 1973, also not legally binding, sep... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ... [[American]] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[193...
6: ...' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya...
8: ...and Prix Internationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''...
10: ...e Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying documentary was e...
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