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- Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]]...
3: ...er mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down he...
5: ...sion appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Jackson died the following year.
11: *[http://www.fembio.org/women/mahalia-jackson.shtml Biography at FemBio ? Notable Women Interna... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Andrew Jackson
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ...imes called the "'''Age of Jackson'''" or the "'''Jacksonian Era'''" — an era traditionally seen as d...
22: ... favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for his willingnes...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit... - Stonewall Jackson (15247 bytes)
1: [[Image:Jackson-Stonewall-LOC.jpg|thumb|Stonewall Jackson]]
3: ... Civil War]], and was killed during the conflict. Jackson is often considered one of the most gifted battle...
6: ...[1790]]–[[1826]]), an [[attorney]]. Both of Jackson's parents were natives of [[Virginia]]. The famil...
8: ...h to Thomas' sister Laura Ann the next day. Julia Jackson was widowed at 28 and was left with much debt, se...
10: ...275px|left|thumb|Jackson's Mill, owned by Cummins Jackson.]] - Jackson, Mississippi (21073 bytes)
1: ...d Simpson counties, has a population of 510,000. Jackson is one of the [[county seat|county seats]] of [[H...
4: city = Jackson |
7: flag = JacksonMS.gif |
8: seal = JacksonMSseal.jpg |
9: map = MSMap-doton-Jackson.png |
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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
100: | [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]] - Industrial Revolution (30001 bytes)
1: ...ntury|18th]] and early [[19th century]] resulting from the replacement of an economy based on manual l...
3: ... merged into the [[Second Industrial Revolution]] from about [[1850]], when technological and economic...
7: ...erm industrial ''revolution'' was introduced by [[Friedrich Engels]] and [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]] in ...
10: ...itain. The steam engine was created to pump water from coal mines, enabling them to be deepened]]effic...
12: ... occurred in Britain. In other nations, such as [[France]], markets were split up by local regions, wh... - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
7: ...ngland]] and [[King of Ireland|Queen of Ireland]] from [[17 November]] [[1558]] until her death. Somet...
9: ...th impatience by her counsellors, often saved her from political and marital misalliances. Like her fa...
11: ...the number of [[Privy Council|Privy Counsellors]] from thirty-nine to nineteen, and later to fourteen.
16: ...as addressed as Lady Elizabeth and lived in exile from her father as he married his succession of wive...
18: ...th Elizabeth and remained her confidante and good friend for life. She had been appointed to Elizabeth... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...ry, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effecti...
11: ...oviet Union|Communist Party]] and joined with her friend, [[Alexander Shlyapnikov]], to form a left-wi...
17: ... The Life of Alexandra Kollontai'', with [[Glenda Jackson]] as the voice of Kollontai. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [...
14: ...atic Party of the United States|D]]-[[Michigan]]) from [[1965]] until [[1988]]. She continues to resid...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat to a w...
29: ...give up their bus seats, caused activists [[Jesse Jackson]] and [[Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] aga...
32: [[Image:Parkstoday.jpg|frame|Rosa Parks in the year 2000]] - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...itive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the g...
6: ... jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovativ...
8: ... of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went t...
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[African American]] [[gospel music|gospel]] [[singer]]...
3: ...er mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down he...
5: ...sion appearances on ''[[The Flip Wilson Show]]''. Jackson died the following year.
11: *[http://www.fembio.org/women/mahalia-jackson.shtml Biography at FemBio ? Notable Women Interna... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki...
38: ...is''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''N...
42: ...to [[Nashville]] a few months later also proved unfruitful. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.''
19: ...led to death without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit ... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lucinda Williams-Sweet Old World.jpg|frame|right|Lucinda Williams on the cover of her alb...
6: ...ting on a folk-rock-country blend. She moved to [[Jackson, Mississippi]] in 1978 to record her first album,...
10: ...orded a bowdlerized cover of "Passionate Kisses" (from ''Lucinda Williams'') in 1992, and the song bec...
16: ...ontaining the single "Still I Long for Your Kiss" from the [[Robert Redford]] film ''[[The Horse Whisp...
18: ...With God", an atypically uptempo gospel-rock tune from the otherwise rather low-key release. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
7: ...' tour, where she was forced to wear a 4 1/2 foot fright [[wig]] and change her name to "Shirley". She...
11: ...eatured many of the songs written by Crow and her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Ve...
17: ...uded in her album, "Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park."
19: ...live album called ''Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live From [[Central Park]]''. The record found Crow singi...
21: ...uccessful single called "Picture" with rumored boyfriend [[Kid Rock]]. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...os’s voice and mostly piano-based music has frequently been compared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [...
7: ... she adopted the name "Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori tha...
10: ...by ear at Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] ...
16: ...onsidered it a step sideways rather than forwards from ''Little Earthquakes''. In February, she began ...
20: ...buse and Incest National Network. RAINN is a toll-free help line in the US which connects callers with... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
6: ...e early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase a used [[16mm]] [[Bolex]...
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated t...
14: ...mes Merrill]] (1926-1995) and his partner [[David Jackson]] (''?''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces]] in which...
22: ...ed Time'' (1946) Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook and [[Rita Christiani]]. - Painting (4567 bytes)
4: ...of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...''paintings''' are at the [[Grotte Chauvet]] in [[France]], dated at about 32,000 years old. They are ...
47: *[[Fresco]]
52: ...that an artist is associated with. This can stem from an actual group that the artist was consciously...
96: *[[Paul C麡nne]], ([[1839]]-[[1906]]), French artist - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th... - James Madison (15187 bytes)
21: ..., helping to draft their declaration of religious freedom and persuading [[Virginia]] to give their no...
25: ...the thinking of what Thomas Jefferson (who was in France at the time) called an "assembly of demi-gods...
31: ... States_House_of_Representatives|Representative]] from his home state of [[Virginia]]. He successfully...
33: ..., Madison was the nation's shortest president and frequently ill. In [[1794]] Madison married [[Dolley...
38: ...th any nation that would not remove the blockade: France did, and Britain did not. - James Monroe (11107 bytes)
22: ... the [[Continental Army]], and practiced law in [[Fredericksburg]], Virginia. His parents Spence Monro...
24: ...-[[1796]], he displayed strong sympathies for the French cause; later, with [[Robert R. Livingston]] a...
30: ... State. Only [[Henry Clay]]'s refusal kept Monroe from adding an outstanding Westerner. Both of these ...
34: ...iring Missouri as a slave state with [[Maine]], a free state, and barring slavery north and west of Mi...
36: ...e free from future European colonization and free from European interference in sovereign countries' a... - John Quincy Adams (11783 bytes)
8: | succeeded=[[Andrew Jackson]]
22: ...e]] at the [[University of Leiden]]. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in [[1787]], and was ele...
26: ...list]] to the [[United States Senate]] and served from [[March 4]], [[1803]], until [[June 8]], [[1808...
28: ...814]], and Minister to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] from [[1815]] to [[1817]]. During this time, Adams a...
30: ...cquisition of [[Florida]] and in keeping the U.S. from becoming dependent on [[England]]. He is someti... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=Andrew Jackson
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ...imes called the "'''Age of Jackson'''" or the "'''Jacksonian Era'''" — an era traditionally seen as d...
22: ... favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] for his willingnes...
24: ...began to prosper in the rough-and-tumble world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state milit... - Martin Van Buren (21629 bytes)
7: <tr><td>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Andrew Jackson]]</td></tr>
25: ...;[[February 16]], [[1817]]) who also had children from a previous marriage.
29: ... of [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]] from [[1808]] until [[1813]], when he was removed. I...
33: ...inued to reside until he entered [[Andrew Jackson|Jackson's]] [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] in [[1829]]...
35: ...anks voted by the legislature to General [[Andrew Jackson]] after the [[Battle of New Orleans (1815)]]. He ...
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