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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...6]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
63: | [[Iowa]]
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]]
143: | [[Ohio]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
3: ... stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas, they ...
5: ...hroughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing press]].
7: ...e isles of Juana ([[Cuba]]) and Espanola ([[Hispaniola]]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|...
9: ...[[horse]]s), and the first large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans.
11: ...sive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[Italian American]]s hail Columbus... - 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
41: ...above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
12: ...rd Aiken|Aiken, Howard]], (1900-1973), computing pioneer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
23: *[[Airto]], (born 1951), [[percussion]]ist - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...mes, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actually ta...
10: ...t of Hitler and led to much criticism of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critica...
12: ...oiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, ...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... coined for [[Margaret Thatcher]]. [[David Ben-Gurion]] once described her as "the only man in the Cab...
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
14: ...ocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: ...chools. She joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[19...
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - 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...
23: * The Law Of Population (1877) - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...rmany]] and took part in an unsuccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising ...
10: ...er fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]],...
12: ...ts in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament foc...
14: ...tions under [[socialism]], which later caused tensions with [[Vladimir Lenin]].
16: ...rging with Lithuania's social democratic organisation. Despite living in Germany for most of her adult... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...d with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...], both of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...eeing her most ardently pursued goal come to fruition: the right to vote for women in the United Kingd... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...en, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. S...
9: ...llars a year (the first male actor who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of...
11: ... Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" b...
18: ...h]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $5 a day - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...]] chemist and pioneer in the early field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She foun...
4: ==Biography==
5: ...ear. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish universities so she w...
7: ...known radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[December 26]]th Mar...
9: ...he other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...s, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American [[teacher]], [[nurse]], and [[human...
4: == Youth, education, family nursing ==
6: ...nd sisters were kept busy answering her many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skil...
8: ...hsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's lifework.
10: ...Teaching, organizing, learning bureaucracy, a mission == - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
4: ...ever]] epidemic. There, she demonstrated her superior executive and administrative skills and develope...
6: ...e American Nurses Association and chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ... united the work of the [[American Nurses Association]], the Army Nurse Corps, and the American Red Cr...
10: ...At the top of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 ...
12: ...ber of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing Advisory Committee formed the "Jane De... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
2: ...iro is the [[List of metropolitan areas by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] in ...
6: ...e city. The planet Mars, asssociated with destruction was called "Al Najm Al Qahir" in Arabic, from wh...
10: ...umb|200px|right|Average temperature and precipitations in Cairo]]
14: ...ree branches into the low-lying [[Nile Delta]] region. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
20: ==Biography==
22: ...r, a farmer, also named John, was a fourth-generation descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[...
24: ...s undertook to write out, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the...
26: ...4]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. The... - 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== - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...y of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ... a long decline, which by the late [[Ottoman]] period had seen it reduced to little more than a small ...
11: The history of Alexandria covers four periods:
13: * The [[#Foundation|Ptolemaic era]] which starts with the founding o...
18: === Foundation === - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ween several millions up to about one hundred million years, the exact age of the Earth is difficult t...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: ...nism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young-earth belie...
11: ...a small globe that resembled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led ...
13: ...layering of rock and earth, gave them an appreciation that the Earth had been through many changes dur...
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