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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
37: | [[1933]]
108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
204: | [[Cheyenne, Wyoming|Cheyenne]]
209: ...List of current and former capital cities within the United States]]
219: [[Category:Lists of cities in the United States|* Capital]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: *[[Adolphe-Charles Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
19: ...Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
9: ...itical writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
13: ...Aikenhead, Thomas]], (died 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
14: ...thur Aikin|Aikin, Arthur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist - 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... - 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. - 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. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ... flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...nce Museum_(London)|Science Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of th...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] i...
12: ...e Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and women.
3: ...[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
5: ...or Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems''.
7: ..., fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: ... noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[... - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: ... medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
11: ...n Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...t she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
3: [[Image:Noether.jpg|thumb|Emmy Noether]]
5: ...d mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
6: ...y precocity at mathematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
8: ...David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. 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... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...ay.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...ke him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]). - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: ...BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ... and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
5: ...e had gained a reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
7: ... [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...ent that is radically different from any found on her recordings. - 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. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hpb.jpg|thumb|right|Helena Blavatsky]]
2: ...' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...Russia, and apparently encouraged her to believe she had supernatural powers at a very early age.
7: ...at she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), whi...
9: ...ws]] of how they work rather than performing them herself. - 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]]. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...[[Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ... her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ...ivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before the war ended.
7: ...the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des Sciences de l'Homme]] in Lyon. - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three ...
5: ...]] and [[1938]], while she was still teaching at the Air Academy.
7: ...k]] (in the Far East). When finally completed, the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a strai...
9: ... award, the first females ever to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
11: ...ter their training, the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:
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