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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing...
197: | [[1924]] — [[1932]]
204: | [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]
209: ...List of current and former capital cities within the United States]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...specially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].'...
6: ...a]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...r]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
12: ...rge Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
17: ..., first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
1: {{Infobox President | name=George Herbert Walker Bush
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the father of the current president [[George W. Bush]].
22: ...the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]].
24: ... Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - 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 - 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
36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
46: *[[Abd-ar-rahman III]], (912-961), prince of the Ummayad dynasty in Spain - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...pg|thumb|right|200px|'''Victoria''' <br>Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empr...
7: ...Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
9: ... [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
12: ...ince of Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on ...
14: ...er educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]]. - 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== - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...uffrage Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
7: ...and her memory is still preserved in the name of the [[Fawcett Society]].
9: ...ior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ng the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...tricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, followed in subsequent years by a...
7: ...tock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and de...
9: ...tates Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ...her Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
1: ...Georgia O?Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1950]]
4: ...ubtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
6: ...ue]] in [[New York City]]. She began teaching in the public schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]...
8: ...with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
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.
19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...er mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ... She was even featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ... [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - 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. - 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." - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...ograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div>
3: ...930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ... caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ...he age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local...
13: ...le, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: ...ge:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934]]
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]],...
4: ...46]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[...
6: ...parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ... member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid." - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
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 [[...
12: ...MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after. - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: '''Sonja Henie''' ([[April 8]], [[1912]]-[[October 12]], [[19...
3: [[Image:SonjaHenie.jpg|thumb|Sonja Henie]]
4: ...over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for directions.
6: ...c Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six consecutive European championships.
8: ...grapher|choreography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internati...
3: ...t stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...n the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ...t. The outbreak of [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tenn...
14: ...nning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...y have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...rol cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
8: ...omotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
11: ...m passengers. This was particularly the case for the '''steam locomotive''', but still has some releva...
12: ...of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service.
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