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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
    141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
  2. History of China (45919 bytes)
    2: ...identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves ...
    7: ...have reached China about 65,000 years ago from [[Africa]]. Early evidence for proto-Chinese [[rice pad...
    14: ...he earliest written record of China's past, dates from the [[Shang Dynasty]] in perhaps the [[13th cen...
    18: ... around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have ...
    22: ...[[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of a la...
  3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
  4. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
    37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
    40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
    41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
    42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
  5. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    53: *[[Ruben Aguirre|Aguirre, Ruben]], (born 1934), Mexican actor
  6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
    9: ...r, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
    18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
  7. Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
    1: ...metime '''Count Dohna''', was Queen of [[Sweden]] from [[1632]] to [[1654]], was the daughter of King ...
    10: ...op of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se -->
    22: ...he was educated in the manner typical of men, and frequently wore men's clothes (such as dresses with ...
    25: ...Maria Eleonora]] of [[Prussia|Brandenburg]], came from the [[Hohenzollern]] family. She was a woman of...
    27:
  8. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    2: '''Gloria Steinem''' (born [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist]] and [[journa...
    9: ...r magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her in...
    33: * ''Revolution from Within'' (1992)
  9. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
    5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
    9: ...s'' (a collection of short stories) in English in 1934. She would go on to publish several other works s...
    11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
    19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark)
  10. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    2: ...[1891]]&ndash;[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and a...
    5: ...d [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
    9: ...ica of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's G...
    22: ...dvocate [[William Bradford Huie]]. Her detachment from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (189...
    28: *''[[Jonah's Gourd Vine]]'' ([[1934]])
  11. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on ot...
    19: ...to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
    22: ... the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] and published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]''...
    24: ...]] by Scalara Films, [[Rome]], despite resistance from the [[Italy|Italian]] government under [[Benito...
    33: ... the infamous [[Red Scare]], Rand testified as a "friendly witness" before the [[House Committee on Un...
  12. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
    7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
    11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
    12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
    13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
  13. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    4: Having graduated with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went t...
    6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first Briti...
    8: ...n in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She left [[Croydon]] on [...
    10: ... [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] ...
    12: ...he flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regai...
  14. Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
    1: [[image:Ruth0003.JPG|frame|Ruth Benedict]]
    7: ...lumbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [[Doctor of Philosophy|P...
    11: Her ''Patterns of Culture'' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describin...
    20: ...and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation...
  15. Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
    2: ...''', [[November 7]] [[1867]] &ndash; [[July 4]] [[1934]]) was a [[Polish]] chemist and pioneer in the ea...
    5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
    7: ...g more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanat...
    9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
    17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
  16. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: ...ree in the same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in ma...
    5: ...for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the deve...
    9: ... extended her FLOW-MATIC language with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it wa...
    12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at...
    16: ... a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
  17. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    3: ...known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
    7: ...as adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it ...
    9: ... several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
    13: ...isoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the w...
    15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never really able to obtain the same...
  18. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    6: Her singing [[debut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Th...
    22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
    24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
    33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
    54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
  19. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
    16: ...cesses as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]], she performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glo...
    20: ...k entrance and forced to wait in a dark room away from the audience before appearing on stage. Once be...
    24: ...duced Holiday to the drug, but there is consensus from historians and contemporaneous sources that she...
    30: ...d [[Lester Young]]; both were less than two years from death.
  20. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    3: ...on]] (in [[German language|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Mei...
    7: ...the same, she helped [[Andreas Baader]] to escape from prison and then took part in bank robberies and...
    9: ... dead in her cell on [[May 9]], [[1976]], hanging from the ceiling. The [[Germany|German]] government ...

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