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1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
   108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
   141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
   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]]
2. History of China (45919 bytes)
   2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
   7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
   9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
   14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
   18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
   3: ... Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
   6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
   12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
   13: ...[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
4. 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.
   34: ...s|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
   38: ...Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
   41: ...son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
5. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
   16: *[[Agathon]] (c. 448-400 BCE), Athenian tragic poet
   17: ...[[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
   21: ...d Agmon|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
   25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
   27: ...Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]]
6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
   4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
   7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
   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
7. Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
   1: ...32]]) during Sweden's intervention in Germany in the [[Thirty Years' War]].
   10: ... regni sapientia]]"<br>("''Wisdom is the prop of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www....
   22: ...mpt to determine if she was [[intersexual]], but they were not able to come to a clear conclusion.
   25: ...inst the prospect of having to produce a heir to the throne.
   27: ...rtes]], who had been invited from France to tutor her.
8. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
   2: ...n's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
   5: ...a cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
   8: ...ive, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[Indi...
   9: ...e [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Pla...
   12: ...nd. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florync...
9. 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.
10. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    2: ... author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
    5: ...labama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] u...
    9: ... the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gourd V...
    13: ...tful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
    15: ... Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink int...
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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...
14. Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
    5: She was born in [[New York, New York|New York]]. 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]].
15. Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
    2: ...] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]]...
    5: ...[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
    7: ... thus on [[December 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
    9: ...olonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactiv...
    11: ...ered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize.
16. 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.
17. 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: ... 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) ...
18. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
    2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
    4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
    6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
    8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
19. 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: ... Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
20. Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
    3: ...''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
    5: ...n editor for the radical left paper ''konkret''. She married [[Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communi...
    7: ...itation of the common man and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
    9: ...s held that she was killed by representatives of the German authorities.

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