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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
77: | [[1930]] — [[1932]]
113: | [[1919]] — [[1932]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
197: | [[1924]] — [[1932]] - 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]]
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United States Se...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
9: ...tates Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...e people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]....
19: She ran for a final time in [[1944]] and was defeated by [[J. Will... - 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]]. - 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]].
19: ...married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
5: On her first night in the [[Bohemianism|Bohemian]] communit...
13: ... centre. The place took its name from the popular Fitzroy Tavern on the corner of Charlotte and Windmi...
15: In [[1932]] Hamnett published ''Laughing Torso'', a tale of...
17: ...ake her many talents and a tragic '''Queen of the Fitzroy''' spent a good part of the last few decades...
19: Twenty-three years after her first book ''Laughing Torso'' was published, Hamnett... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ... the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the ...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...aute, a fellow lawyer. In [[1932]], she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]]...
6: ...[[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouv... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - 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: ...the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the C...
14: ... tight quarters ]]On the morning of [[May 20]], [[1932]], she took off from [[Saint John, New Brunswick]... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ... with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secre...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...he became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She le...
12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from Engl...
14: In [[1932]], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mol... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rat...
6: ...ke-Wulf Fw 61|Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Na...
8: ... one of only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman a...
10: ...ved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gli...
12: ...scaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...pecially in the United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [[1990...
3: ...]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]]. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road with Clyde. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shut out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she la...
5: ... it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...o make a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freihei...
9: ...technical and aesthetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the st...
13: ...f her using [[concentration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in c... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ... her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab ...
12: ...[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics agree that her acting was ...
14: ...vertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scar...
16: ...onders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a...
20: ...performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New York Screen Critics Award.... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrio...
5: ...emy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). Th...
7: ...She fell in love with him while performing in his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]])....
9: ...her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. It is consider...
11: ...llow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."
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