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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
16: The '''grapefruit''' is a sub-tropical [[citrus]] [[t...
18: ... and [[Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as the ''toronja''.
20: ... [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
22: ... not determined until the [[1950s]]. This led to the official name being altered to ''Citrus × p...
24: ...ibition of this enzyme that grapefruit increases the effects of [[simvastatin]], [[terfenadine]], [[fe... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wi...
73: | [[1905]] — [[1910]]
97: | [[1893]] — [[1905]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
169: | [[1905]] — [[1911]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
6: ...|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
18: ...die, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
9: *[[Chinua Achebe|Achebe, Chinua]], (born 1930), Nigerian writer
10: *[[Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford|Acheson, Archibald]] (1776-1849), 2nd Earl of Gosford
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: *[[Edward Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
13: *[[Kenny Acheson|Acheson, Kenny]] (born 1957) - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
1: ...Yelizaveta Petrovna, Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias (1709-62)]]
3: ...nment and not a single person was executed during her reign.
7: ...by political opponents to challenge her right to the throne.
9: ...rom her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and vivacity.
11: ... found herself at the age of eighteen practically her own mistress. - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...ary's valuable collection of jewels built up over her years as queen are now priceless.
9: ...ary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Du...
11: ... for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]es and [...
13: ...he Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]]. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ... her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ilderen, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations ...
11: ...e Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...cratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...mber 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[wri...
4: ...], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
5: ...r conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[18...
7: ...r she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...in by the government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.
6: ... growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...rs managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...ience of [[form of government|forms of state]]), the [[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange c...
12: ...f parliament focused more and more on gaining further parliamentary rights and on material wealth. - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ... and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...ngland, she moved to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936.
11: ...in [[Los Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Santa Monica,... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...ociated with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...come to fruition: the right to vote for women in the United Kingdom. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...e [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist...
3: ...n, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
5: ...ar to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
7: ...]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...ms written in the form of correspondence between the two. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...igure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...y and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as ...
11: ...language "a little further against the dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influen...
13: ...he art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneo... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
1: [[Image:Helen_Hogg.jpg|right]]
3: ...to [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until ...
5: ...Harlow Shapley]]. on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]]...
7: ... took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until hi...
9: ...n [[1988]]. She died of a [[myocardial infarction|heart attack]] in 1993. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|...
5: ...son ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...e cast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...He also gave her the [[stage name]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
1: ... oboe section incorporating the regular oboe and the [[cor anglais]].
3: ...elves were unclear as to the distinction between the two instruments.
5: ...arried on the regular strength of professional orchestras.
9: *[[Piccolo heckelphone]]
10: *http://www.contrabass.com/pages/heckel.html - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
33: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Political Party]]:'''
36: | '''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''
42: ...he United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican Party|Republican Party...
44: ...ithin their boundaries. These events soon led to the [[American Civil War]]. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...d to arrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
4: ...Other scholars and scientists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar ...
6: ...kind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...rth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousands of years befo...
11: ...s rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old.
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