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- Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n]]. She spent a number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Livi...
13: ...Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authoriti...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
32: ...ting from the [[Russian Civil War]]. Goldman was friends with Communists and New Yorkers [[John Reed ...
38: ...anish Civil War]]. During this time she wrote the obituary of the prominent [[Spanish anarchist]] [[Buenaven... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
7: ...stallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she was app...
13: ===Obituary notices===
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biolog... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...aduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor's degree in ...
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]]. - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...st remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ... clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ... a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his dea...
9: ... In [[1985]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[...
18: * [[Frank Scott Hogg]] - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ...ard of at a time where female athletes were still frowned upon by many. It earned her the nickname ''"...
7: ...and set or tied 12 [[world record]]s. She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became leade...
35: ...the high jump competition in fourth, with bruises from the fall. The second day was more successful, a...
43: ... m final. [[Audrey Patterson]], the first [[African American]] woman to win an Olympic medal plac...
47: ...the city, she received a lot of praise and gifts. From her neighbours, she received a new bicycle: "to... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
48: ...as a member of the State House of Representatives from [[1835]] to [[1837]] and [[1839]] to [[1841]]. ...
51: ...a|the Confederacy]], Johnson was the only Senator from the seceded states to continue participation in...
113: ...o nineteen for acquittal. He had avoided removal from office by a single vote. There were two votes ...
121: ...a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from [[March 4]], [[1875]], until his death near [[E...
130: * Johnson's [[obituary]], from the [[New York Times]]: http://starship.python.... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...es]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
42: ...Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis's instead of the French stuff I shall find."
44: ...dent to be married in the [[White House]] itself. Frances Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in the...
46: ...[[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the [[Grand ...
54: ...s it is now when we come back again....four years from today." - Florida (24937 bytes)
43: ... of the United States of America. Florida seceded from the Union on [[January 10]], [[1861]] and was o...
64: ...nasa.florida.750pix.jpg|right|thumb|Florida taken from NASA Shuttle Mission STS-95 on 31st October 199...
72: ...ces, September 2nd.jpg|left|thumb|138px|Hurricane Frances near peak strength.]]
76: .... These thunderstorms which are caused by airflow from the [[Gulf of Mexico]] seemingly "pop up" in th...
80: ...ey|Charley]] ([[August 13]]), [[Hurricane Frances|Frances]] ([[September 4]]-[[September 5|5]]), [[Hur... - Georgia (U.S. state) (26579 bytes)
50: ...y [[South Carolina]] met the Spanish moving north from their base in Florida. In [[1724]], it was firs...
58: ...Georgia|Louisville]] (''pron.'' Lewis-ville), and from [[1806]] through the [[American Civil War]] at ...
62: ...ce of any state in the Union. For over 130 years, from 1872 to 2003, Georgians only elected Democratic...
68: ...tution mandates a maximum of 56 Senators, elected from single-member districts, and a minimum of 180 R...
74: ...ter [[Button Gwinnett]], one of the [[delegate]]s from Georgia who signed the [[U.S. Declaration of In... - Kentucky (15076 bytes)
9: Capital = [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] |
41: ...h the [[Cumberland Gap]], and was the first major frontier developed west of the [[Appalachian Mountai...
45: ...to the state. A different version of the name is from the Indian word meaning "dark and bloody huntin...
48: ... [[capital]] of Kentucky is [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] and its governor is [[Ernie Fletcher]] (...
63: ...blage of smaller cities across the [[Ohio River]] from [[Cincinnati, Ohio]], also has a large metropol... - Texas (39610 bytes)
38: ...nguage]] of the [[Hasinai]], ''tejas'', meaning ''friends'' or ''allies''; [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers...
42: ...ist of U.S. state mottos | state motto]] — "Friendship"
50: ** flying — [[Mexican free-tailed bat]]
57: ...om you talk to (and which part of Texas they come from), Texas forms part of the [[U.S. Southern State...
62: ...ve flown over its soil: the [[Fleur-de-lis]] of [[France]], and the national flags of [[Spain]], [[Mex... - 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...
72: ...see Governors]], [[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Tennessee]]'' - Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
42: ...ges, while others are virtually indistinguishable from non-Amish or Mennonites.
55: ...en founded a colony there as a place of religious freedom for [[Quaker]]s, and named it for the [[Lati...
59: ...rench]] during the [[French and Indian War]]. The French established numerous fortifications in the ar...
61: The colony's reputation of religious freedom also attracted significant populations of [[...
67: ...turning point of the [[American Civil War]]. Dead from this battle rest at [[Gettysburg National Cemet... - Ohio (19444 bytes)
42: ...ries]]. During the [[18th century]], the [[France|French]] set up a system of trading posts to control...
44: ...e [[Treaty of Paris (1763)|Treaty of Paris]], the French ceded control of Ohio and the old Northwest t...
46: ...ited the [[American colonies|American colonists]] from settling in Ohio Country. British control of th...
48: ...lished slavery in the coming two generations, the free states would be known as Northern States. The N...
74: ...distinctive regional dialect set this section off from the rest of the state and, unfortunately, creat... - Illinois (27007 bytes)
37: ...ry]]. Its name was given by the state's [[France|French explorers]] after the indigenous [[Illiniwek]...
39: ...e its largest city is [[Chicago]], along the waterfront of [[Lake Michigan]]. Most of the state's pop...
48: ...lt of their exploration, Illinois was part of the French empire until [[1763]], when it passed to the ...
56: ...Illinois in the Civil War]]), which were numbered from the 7th IL to the 156th IL. Seventeen cavalry r...
60: ...ing from traditions cultivated during the state's frontier era. As codified in the state constitution... - Albert Einstein (43065 bytes)
12: ...b|200px|Young Einstein before the Einsteins moved from Germany to Italy.]]
20: ...e school to let him go with a medical note from a friendly doctor, but this meant he had no secondary-...
22: ...r Maja was to later marry their son Paul, and his friend [[Michele Besso]] married their other daughte...
26: ...ed his scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. He and Mileva had a daugh...
33: ...fe]], a Soviet physicist who knew Einstein, in an obituary of Einstein, wrote, "The author of [the papers of... - Alfred Nobel (7332 bytes)
1: [[Image:AlfredNobel.jpg|thumb|200px|Alfred Nobel]]
3: '''Alfred Bernhard Nobel''' ([[October 21]], [[1833]], [[...
5: ...borg]], and a disastrous one in [[1864]] killed Alfred's younger brother [[Emil Nobel|Emil]] and sever...
7: Less well-known is the fact that Alfred Nobel was also a playwright. His only play (''[...
9: Alfred Nobel is interred in the [[Norra begravningspla... - Ronald Reagan (52721 bytes)
23: ...-grandfathers had immigrated to the United States from [[Ballyporeen]], [[Ireland]] in the [[1860s]]....
25: In [[1920]], after years of moving from town to town, the family settled in [[Dixon, Il...
29: ...the next seven years, reportedly saving 77 people from drowning. Reagan would later joke that none of ...
31: ...games, getting only the bare outlines of the game from a ticker and relying on his imagination and sto...
35: ...] in the film ''[[Knute Rockne, All American]]'', from which he acquired the nickname ''the Gipper'', ... - Gerald Ford (28942 bytes)
18: ...tives]]; he was first elected to Congress in 1948 from [[Michigan's 5th congressional district]].
20: ...friends of the U.S. At home, the economy suffered from [[inflation]] and [[recession]]. Ford came unde...
27: ... America out of [[World War II]]. Ford graduated from law school in [[1941]], having coached football...
36: ...73]]) he served as Minority Leader, Ford won many friends in the House due to his fair leadership and ...
63: ...rican personnel from [[Vietnam]], in '[[Operation Frequent Wind]]'. On [[29 April]] and the morning of...
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