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1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
   108: | [[Helena, Montana|Helena]]
   129: | [[1964]] — [[1966]]
   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. 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
3. Burundi (13403 bytes)
   1: ...o the Tanzanian ocean port of [[Dar es Salaam]]. The country's name derives from its [[Bantu languages...
   3: ...e growing demands for political participation of the [[Hutu]] majority.
   12: national_anthem = [[Burundi bwacu]] |
   37: established_events =  - Date |
   38: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]],...
4. 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
   34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
   36: ...in Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian
5. 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]]
6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
   4: *[[Jan Santini Aichel|Aichel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech archite...
   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
   16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
7. 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."
8. Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
   25: | [[January 19]], [[1966]]
   51: ...[[1977]], and from [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
   55: She was the only child of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]], the first [[Prime Minister of India]].
   57: ...be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
   59: ...he emerged to be one of the strongest leaders in the history of independent India.
9. Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
   1: :Mary Robinson ''is also the name of an English poet, see [[Mary Robinson (poe...
   3: ...end of her term of office to take up her post in the [[United Nations]].
   17: <tr><td>'''Other candidates:'''</td><td>[[Fianna Fᩬ]]: Brian Le...
   23: ... mix of rebels against the Crown and servants of the Queen.
   25: ...sor William Binchy]], and, the current holder of the position, abortion rights campaigner [[Ivana Baci...
10. Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
    2: ..."font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher'''
    3: ...#efefef;" align="center" colspan="2"|[[Image:thatcher.jpg]]
    25: |[[Order of the Garter|Order of the Garter]]<br>Life Barony
    27: ...in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]), an appellati...
    29: ...e the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Argentina]] in the [[Falklands War]].
11. 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.
12. 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]]."
13. Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
    1: ...e [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist...
    3: ...n, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
    5: ...Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
    7: ...]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
    9: ...ms written in the form of correspondence between the two.
14. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
    4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
    6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
    8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
    10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicol᳠was born there that year.
15. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...She is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976...
    4: ...been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
    6: ...especially as one of [[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[De...
    8: ...), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
    10:
16. 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.
17. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    1: ...a_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa 61]]
    2: ...pilot]], and a favourite of the upper echelon of the [[Nazi]] party.
    4: ...n a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
    6: ...e flew the Fa 61 every night inside the arena of the Berlin Motor Show.
    8: ...ombined Pilot and Observer Badge with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured sev...
18. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    3: ...t Union|Soviet]] [[astronaut|cosmonaut]] and was the first woman to fly in [[outer space|space]], aboa...
    5: ...Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hun...
    7: ...tlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
    9: ...] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
    11: ...2]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]...
19. 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.
20. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    4: ...th her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
    6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
    8: ...ictor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
    10: ...in D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
    12: ... (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.

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