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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
37: | [[1933]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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]]. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
4: ...cialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
7: ...osophical Society]] she went to [[India]] for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted muc...
13: ...ts from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father.
17: Annie Besant died in [[1933]] and was survived by her daughter, [[Mabel Besan... - 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...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - 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... - 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...
16: ... South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridg... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poet...
3: ... schoolteacher. Cora divorced Millay's father for financial irresponsibility in 1900, when Millay was ...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
20: Her finest poems, however, are probably "[http://www.bar... - 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 ... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]]. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: She made very significant contributions to mathematics and theoretical ... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: ...[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and sometimes also at 10 m... - 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: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]). - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that...
7: ... Her recorded accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armst...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
21: ...to Clarksdale's black hospital, which has been confirmed, but he also maintained that she had died en ... - 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: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
7: ... (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
15: ...tent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called [[New Age]] thi...
59: ...by [[Manly P. Hall]]), [http://correiorosacruz.netfirms.com/blavatsky.htm]
67: ...s a man in his worldly or spiritual progress; his first duty is to be ever ready to help if he can, wi... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch...
35: ... on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...y]] in [[World War II]], she made the decision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Ge... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...s among those of celebrity status, she became the first in a number of long distance records. Most of...
7: ...cow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 m...
9: ...ith "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones t...
13: ...h Fighter Aviation Regiment:''' This unit was the first to take part in combat ([[April 16]], [[1942]]...
19: ... landing at the base's airfield. She received the first state funeral of the war, and her body was bur...
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