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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
49: | [[1960]] — [[1969]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...aulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
27: Between [[1960]] and [[1975]], Rio was a city-state (such as [[H... - 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...
18: *[[Roy Chapman Andrews]], (1884-1960), US explorer
21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]... - 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]]
48: ...klin Pierce Adams|Adams, Franklin Pierce]], (1881-1960), author
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan... - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
10: | date of birth=[[September 30]], [[1960]]
18: ...nche Lambert Lincoln''' (born [[September 30]], [[1960]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat...
22: ...exander, Jr.|Bill Alexander]] and served in his office until [[1984]]. Lincoln defeated Alexander in ...
24: Lincoln serves on the Senate Finance Committee; Special Committee on Aging; Selec... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
38: ...torney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped refor... - 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]]. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]''...
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...rst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] moveme...
9: ...ved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to...
11: ... the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
15: ...ed from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figure in the communist movement at the time and att...
17: ...Haile Selassie]]. She raised funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively on Et... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...erving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ...nd the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya an...
25: * ''Shadows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ... ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|fo...
11: ... and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me i...
15: ...rston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular Black auth...
17: ...ling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later ...
35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]]) - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
6: ... comparative literature. Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregat...
8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005) - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]]. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
11: ...o died hours after he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The relationship ended nine years later, when ...
13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.] - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
4: ...ed from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]] and went to college at the [[University of Texa...
14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...ering the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. Her grandfat...
7: ...he [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "t...
9: ...Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the film version of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] stage hit '...
20: ...dated her show), and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.
22: ...Lucy and Desi agreed to take a pay cut to finance filming. In return, CBS relinquished the show right...
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