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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
81: ...1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
109: | [[1896]] — [[1902]], [[1909]] — [[1912]] (wings added)
204: | [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]
209: ...List of current and former capital cities within the United States]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: ...8th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
7: ...res [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
9: ...iam III of England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
10: ...852]] - [[Count Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont...
11: ...Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University - 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." - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ... the poet [[W. B. Yeats]] who frequently visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and po...
6: ...ist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
8: ...to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ... [[Second Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...mmunity, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ... remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: ...pular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen y...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at t... - 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. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...n of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became...
7: ... [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickford'''.
9: ...s that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...s was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...41]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ...of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]]
13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]] - 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 [...
11: ...nce]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...is]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic. - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...e [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
6: ...e:ValadonSuzanne BlueRoom.jpg|thumb|300px|left|''The Blue Room''. ([[1923]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]].]]
8: ...] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in the portrait ''The Hangover''.
10: ...eceived acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
12: ...ame of a close friend and as [[Maurice Utrillo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
5: ...]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
7: ...aculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
9: ...ote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until the early 1930s.
11: ...ics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
13: In 1936 she was appointed an [[associate professor]]. - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...]) specialised in [[anesthesia]] and childbirth. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: ...t test, called the [[Apgar Score]], to assess the health of [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...ntique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
4: ...ee, Arizona]] until accepting an appointment as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital i...
6: ...sociation and chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ...han 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military.
10: ...orial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who lost their lives during World War I. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...reat Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
9: ... Bonnie was wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died.
11: ...e and Clyde" is a remarkably personal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ... to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...ted Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of va...
4: ...les VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred Years' War]].
7: ...), and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: ...herine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine]] are behind her. Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [...
11: ... depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]].]] - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...eligious]] [[veneration]], especially a piece of the [[body]] or a personal item of a [[saint]]. A [[...
7: ... how Paul's handkerchiefs were imbued by God with healing power (19:11-12).
9: ...racle tales made relics much sought after during the Middle Ages.
11: ...ssess the relic of [[Jesus]]' [[circumcision]] - the [[Holy Prepuce]].
13: ====Romano-Christian [[daemon]]s and the "virtue" of relics==== - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
1: ...mage:MatthewHenson.jpeg|thumb|right|200px|Matthew Henson in Arctic furs]]
2: ...ver reached the same fame as Peary in an America where [[racism|racist]] views were still common.
4: ...ut his arctic exploration (''A Negro Explorer at the North Pole'') in [[1912]] and later in collaborat...
6: ... in a [[Greenland]] expedition when they were in their eighties.
8: On April 6, 1988 Henson was reinterred in [[Arlington National Cemete... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ...sdent.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...deral government]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: ...dent was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today...
7: ...]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] o...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ... served as the twenty-eighth [[Vice President of the United States of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson...
5: ...ed law at [[Wabash College]]. He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as a lawyer ...
7: ...islature, nor in raising a convention to rewrite the state constitution.
11: ...l initially turned down the nomination, assuming the job would be boring.
13: ... have rarely relied on their VPs in dealing with the Senate.
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