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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
57: ...6]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
63: | [[Iowa]]
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...on]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: *[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ...
10: *[[Antonio de Abreu]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explo...
11: ...]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...sh Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: * [[1884]] - [[U.S. presidential election, 1884]]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democr...
15: ...ns the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crow...
16: ... [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
17: ...[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...o, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, economic, and technological cha...
14: ...he occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taught only [[German language|Germ...
16: ... would an adult. In order to prevent such a scenario, Parliament passed the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', ...
18: ...h young Victoria, and that he entered into a relationship with her in order to gain social status (he ...
20: ... [[Order-in-Council]] partially reversed the decision by granting [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret D...
9: ...cal Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...conversion to Buddhism in Ceylon, and their promotion of Buddhist revival activities on the subcontine...
13: ...re with his father and brother for a few months prior to this. This discovery started years of upheav...
21: * The Political Status of Women (1874) - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...ssatt grew up in an environment that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn...
6: ... her family's objections to her becoming a professional artist, she began studying painting at the [[P...
8: ...[[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, aft...
14: ..., though, she knew she was not alone in her rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my ...
16: ...mpressionist show. An active member of the impressionist circle until [[1886]], she remained friends w... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [...
5: ...rutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
7: ==Biography==
8: ...[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation. - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
5: ... poverty on [[January 25]], [[1908]], in [[Viareggio]], [[Italy]].
7: ==Bibliography==
8: * ''B颩e'' (1874) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wood...
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States...
5: == Biography ==
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with...
15: ... and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early works of [[Pablo...
19: ...rges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate American writers... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...ther was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''...
5: ...Academician) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: ...s, applying the then-new theory of [[Abelian function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort th...
9: ...thoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and...
22: ...: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...st]], the first woman to gain a medical qualification in Britain.
5: ...ning bodies refused to admit her to their examinations; but in the end the [[Society of Apothecaries]]...
7: ...al for children; but the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her principal...
9: ...t Anglian branch of the [[British Medical Association]].
11: ...sion, of which Dr Anderson was the indefatigable pioneer in [[England]], extended in her lifetime to e... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
4: == Biography ==
5: ...for by servants who believed in the many superstitions of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to...
7: ... [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] an explosion claimed Agardi’s life, but H.P. Blavatsky ...
9: ...udience]]. One new feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of no...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a la... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
22: ...orite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ...y|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was endearingly wicked in a flapper starlet...
104: *1945 [[Foolish Notion]] - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...n''' born [[June 27]], [[1862]] in [[Whitby, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in ...
4: ...ed in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed...
8: ...cene on film. In 1896, the [[Kinetoscope]] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the ...
10: In addition to her performing and singing, May Irwin also wr...
12: ...ppearance, this time in the feature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black i... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
3: ...tion><font size="+1">'''John Tyler'''</font></caption>
16: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>[[lawyer]]</td></tr>
21: ...United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence]], and the first to assume the o...
23: ==Biography==
25: ...essive handling of the South Carolina [[nullification]] issue. - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
3: ...ont size="+1">'''Millard Fillmore '''</font></caption>
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>[[Lawyer]]</td></tr>
20: ...ded [[Zachary Taylor]], who died of acute indigestion. Fillmore served out Taylor's term and was never...
22: == Biography == - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]]
44: ...|seceded]][[Confederate States of America#International Diplomacy and Legal Status |<small><sup>1</sup...
46: ...f the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864 presidential campaign]].
48: ...e stage for the complete abolition of the institution.
50: ... is criticized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power. - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
3: ...font size="+1">'''Ulysses S. Grant'''</font></caption>
10: ...'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Point Pleasant, Ohio]]</td></tr>
14: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>[[General]]</td></tr>
22: ...sh; [[July 23]], [[1885]]) was a [[Union army | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and ...
24: ...ration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: ...font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
22: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr>
29: ...n between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1912]].
31: ...ttle imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nation's economic problems in his second term.
33: ==Biography==
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