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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
69: ... — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center)
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings)
201: | [[1906]] — [[1917]]
204: | [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
4: *[[Bertie Ahern|Ahern, Bertie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish p...
5: *[[Jerry Ahern|Ahern, Jerry]], author
8: ... Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer - 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]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...64]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ...us as a 20th-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colef...
6: ...Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|Waldo...
8: ...st woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Consta...
10: ...ewssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set." - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...eir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and wa...
4: ==Born in the Russian empire==
6: ...and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906== - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...d the effort to grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ...er, New York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...ming in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
9: ... Revolution (newspaper)|The Revolution]]'', published in [[New York City]], edited by Stanton, and hav...
11: ...dash; men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less."'' - 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,... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ... [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: ...r Party]] and much-concerned with women's rights. Her sister, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]], wou...
7: ...in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labour movement.
9: ...men's Dreadnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
11: ...e Bolsheviks, the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...e_bath.jpg|thumb|right|225px|''The Child's Bath (The Bath)''. [[Mary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on can...
4: ...before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris...
6: ...Masters|old masters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ... paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
10: ...ropean museums, her style matured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]]. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ... an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
3: ...of Art]] until [[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]]...
5: ... time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...s, furniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Ha... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: ...sexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...s three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [...
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...nce]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeist poetr...
8: ...ation, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ... in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages.
14: ...'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[Unite...
4: ...he wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and driving personality to obtain a job a...
6: ...] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick.
10: ...ng with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...r the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming lan...
3: ...ching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...ed to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]...
9: ... is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...any]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]...
3: ...e assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...eceived a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jen...
7: ...self is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ...dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise." - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nd singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]...
5: ...during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ...ans, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ... also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935...
11: ...ot legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...] is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
2: ...idered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
4: ...ce by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface.
8: ...There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
34: ...etermines the general working characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[... - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...n Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Soviet Union]].
3: ...t its semi-[[desert]]s ([[steppe]]) make it only the 57th country in population, with approximately 6 ...
49: | '''[[Collapse of the Soviet Union|Independence]]''' - Declared&nb...
58: | '''[[National anthem]]'''
59: | [[Anthem of the Republic of Kazakhstan]]
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