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- Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...moting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[Firs...
5: ...tes of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that draf...
9: ...exual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information...
11: ...rom the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...f the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...efore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Hud...
7: ...Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a col...
9: ...aper advocating birth control. She also separated from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family...
15: ...egate of the Birth Control Federation of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the In...
17: ...lable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
8: ...]], which is named for [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years...
10: ... Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...er were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Straßann]]. On a visit to the USA in 1946 she...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essa...
25: .../13/3/1 A critical review of Patricia Rife's book from PhysicsWeb] - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...yterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
8: ...e uniform for US army nurses. During World War I, France awarded her the [[Medaille de l'Hygiene Publi... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...ebut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one...
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]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...own for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
16: ...gularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
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. - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...vis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insinc...
7: ...the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...laimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when she resigned...
21: ...e Arts and Sciences. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation.
23: ...October 6]], [[1989]] in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]], following a long battle with [[breast canc... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...er work in [[movies]] and [[television]] and who, from the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been rega...
5: ...Vassar College]] and earned a Master of Fine Arts from the [[Yale]] School of Drama. She appeared in ...
7: ...tiated in court) that a [[dingo]] took the child. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's...
13: ...Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaim...
18: ...e]] (link below). Summarized below are her awards from the best recognized institutions. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...se they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...h the trains in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train ...
11: ...en safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for ...
14: ...solescence cycles'' - separating the motive power from the payload-hauling cars means that either can ...
17: ... fuel, or they may take [[Power (physics)|power]] from an outside source. It is common to classify loc... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
26: ...e was initiated as a [[Freemasonry|Freemason]] in Fredericksburg on [[4 February]] [[1752]]. On Lawren...
28: ==French and Indian War and afterwards==
31: ...nternational incident, and helped to ignite the [[French and Indian War]], which eventually became the...
33: ...ition]], which successfully drove the French away from [[Fort Duquesne]].
37: ...en. In that year, he was chosen as a [[delegate]] from Virginia to the First [[Continental Congress]] ... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
3: ...of education, health, transportation, and other infrastructure are generally the responsibility of the...
34: ...'<td>Ky.<td>[[Kentucky]]<td>[[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]</tr>
79: ...arianas]]) which do have a legal status different from the states.
81: ...k|county]] (coterminous with the [[borough]] of [[Manhattan]]) in that city.
85: ...ee to organize their judicial systems differently from the federal judiciary, as long as [[due process... - Kansas (21369 bytes)
37: '''Kansas''', derived from the [[Sioux|Siouan]] word Kansa meaning "People...
44: ...lace. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" from [[Missouri]] invaded Kansas during the territor...
52: ...t]], and [[Carrie Nation]]. Famous sport athletes from Kansas include [[Barry Sanders]], [[Gale Sayers...
75: ...termine if evolution should once again be removed from state science standards.
78: ...ors of Kansas]]; [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Kansas]] - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...ed "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers later enc...
48: ...9]], nearly 17,000 Cherokees were forced to march from Eastern Tennessee to [[Indian Territory]] west ...
50: ...ennessee was the last Confederate state to secede from the Union when it did so on [[June 8]], [[1861]...
52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor...
58: ... laboratory, one of the principal sites for the [[Manhattan Project]]'s production and isolation of weapons-g... - American Psycho (168 bytes)
3: ... a novel by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] about a young [[Manhattan]]ite [[serial killer]]. A film adaptation was rel... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
7: ... allowing the link to be accessible in the future from the toolbar.
178: *[[List of largest optical refracting telescopes]]
314: *[[List of Manhattan, New York neighborhoods]]
363: *[[Historical African place names]]
371: *[[List of toponyms]] (with names derived from a place or region) - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
5: ...ding the [[United States]], [[United Kingdom]], [[France]], and [[Germany]]. Edison started the [[Moti...
7: ...et at his winter retreat (The Mangoes). They were friends until Edison died. The [[Edison and Ford Win...
14: From [[Port Huron]], Sam Edison moved to [[Detroit]]...
16: ...to read and experiment. Many of his lessons came from reading the book [["Parker's School of Natural ...
18: ...ork as it blocked out noises and prevented Edison from hearing the telegrapher sitting next to him. So... - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...e:nagasakibomb.jpg|thumb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] ris...
6: ...ranean Sea]], [[African Theatres of World War II|Africa]], the [[Middle East Theatre of World War II|M...
8: ... a case of [[total war]], it involved the "[[home front]]" and [[Strategic bombing|bombing of civilian...
18: ...7. Spain's fascist government lead by [[Francisco Franco]] was a great asset in trade to the Axis powe...
22: ...of the British Empire, Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Gr... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
5: ...een." Further along their line of march, they confronted a much larger group of militia at a bridge i...
7: ...nd [[Continental Congress]], with representatives from 13 of the [[United_Kingdom|British]] [[colonies...
9: ...rson]]. However, Jefferson's work was reviewed by Franklin at length and then submitted to the Congres...
11: ... States with a great wilderness empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River, and incl...
21: ...Seven Years' War]] and in North America, as the [[French and Indian War]], in 1763, Britain had emerge... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
15: ...8]] - [[Bouvet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de ...
20: *[[1804]] - [[France|French]] rule ends in [[Haiti]].
22: ...] - [[Mary Shelley]]'s [[novel]] ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus]]'' is first ...
25: ...m under the [[Homestead Act]] is made by [[Daniel Freeman]] for a farm in [[Nebraska]].
26: *[[1869]] - [[Sigma Nu]] fraternity is officially founded at the [[Virginia M...
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