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- 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: ...Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, ...
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. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
10: ... Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]]. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...resbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...s]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the uniform for US arm... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
6: ...ebut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one...
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]]... - 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" ... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...vis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insinc...
7: ... they let her sign with [[Warner Brothers]]. Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played Go...
9: ...'[[Dangerous]]'' ([[1936]]) and ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]'' ([[1938]]), and was able to name h...
11: ...r another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawfor...
13: Sensing renewed [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Ja... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
4: ...ld eventually become the most celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to sa...
6: ...'s mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker, worked as a film-cutter. However in later years, more and more h...
12: ...hbor's son, James Dougherty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the ...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
18: While her first husband James Dougherty was at war, the young ... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ... day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
5: ... [[1978]], the latter of which would earn her her first [[Academy Award]] nomination, for Best Support...
7: ... so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life—marri...
9: ...e River Wild]]''— her first and only action film to date—and her noted comic turn in ''[[S...
13: ...e year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaimed [[May 27]] "Meryl Streep Day". - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
7: ==Benefits of locomotives==
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive moti...
16: ==Classification by motive power==
21: ...entury]]) were powered by [[steam engine|steam]], first by burning [[wood]], later [[coal]] or [[oil]]...
23: ...ome years before steam locomotive design became efficient and economically practical. ''Fairy Queen'',... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
19: ...ary War]] ([[1775]]–[[1783]]) and later the first [[President of the United States]] under the [...
21: ...generally recognized as one of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolut...
26: ... he trained as a [[surveyor]] (obtaining his certificate from the [[College of William and Mary]]) and...
31: ... now commissioned a [[lieutenant colonel]] in the First Virginia Regiment, led a mission into the Ohio...
33: ...ton was acclaimed as a hero, and he commanded the First Virginia Regiment throughout the rest of war. ... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
1: ...e''' is any one of the 50 states (four of which officially favor the term ''commonwealth'') which, tog...
30: ...<td>[[Illinois]]<td>[[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]</tr>
81: ...k|county]] (coterminous with the [[borough]] of [[Manhattan]]) in that city.
84: * The official name of Rhode Island is "the State of Rhode I...
85: ...ample, most lawsuits in the state of New York are filed in the Supreme Court, and then appealed to the... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
13: OfficialLang = ''None'' |
44: ...[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territory's first election and forced the election of a pro-[[sl...
46: ...e war. On [[February 19]], [[1861]] it became the first U.S. state to prohibit all [[alcoholic beverag...
61: ...d astra per aspera'', or "To the stars through difficulties"
73: ... the highest standards in the nation. Kansas was first among the states to ban the concept of [[separ... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
39: ...variant of the name that became ''Tennessee'' was first recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish ex...
41: ...rtain. Some accounts suggest it is a Cherokee modification of an earlier [[Yuchi]] or possibly [[Creek...
43: ...South Carolina]], who used this spelling in his official correspondence during the [[1750s]]. In [[178...
46: ...e cultural groups that inhabited the area between first settlement and the time of European contact ar... - American Psycho (168 bytes)
3: ...out a young [[Manhattan]]ite [[serial killer]]. A film adaptation was released in [[2000]]. - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
42: *[[List of topics (scientific method)]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
66: **[[List of FIPS country codes]]
73: *[[SI prefix]]
81: *Specific measures - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...nlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass pr...
5: ...ompany]], which was a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
14: ...on moved to [[Detroit]], then [[Peru, Ohio]], and finally to [[Milan, Ohio]]. That town was enjoying a...
18: ...d published ''[[The Weekly Herald]]''. It was the first [[newspaper]] ever to be typeset and printed o...
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote recorder, on [[Octob... - World War II (58065 bytes)
4: ...wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
6: ...ld War II|Middle East]], in the [[Pacific War|Pacific and South East Asia]], and it continued in China...
20: ...ading and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
22: ... States]], from December 1941. [[China]] had been fighting Japan since 1937. The independent dominions...
24: ...r in their neighborhood. Sovereignty was often difficult to maintain as many countries that did not di... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...local leaders. At Lexington, they confronted and fired upon a small group of local militia, who had g...
9: ...laration was the responsibility of a committee of five, which included, among others, [[John Adams]] a...
13: ...ed and put into effect in 1778, but not fully ratified until 1781. The Articles of Confederation outl...
15: ..., instead, to write a Constitution, which was ratified by eleven States in 1788.
17: ...ration, and [[George Washington]] was elected the first [[President of the United States]]. - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...uary 1 was to be either [[New Year's Day]] or the first day of its numbered year. Although England beg...
6: *[[45 BC]] - The [[Julian calendar]] first takes effect.
16: *[[1788]] - First edition of ''[[The Times]]'' of [[London]], pr...
19: *[[1801]] - The first known [[asteroid]] [[1 Ceres]] is discovered b...
22: ...ein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first published.
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