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- 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
29: *[[Arthur Adamov|Adamov, Arthur]], (1908-1997), dramatist, author - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
11: ...za Ghulam Ahmad|Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam]] ([[1839]]-[[1908]]), founder of [[Ahmadi]] sect
12: ...i Ahmadullah|Ahmadullah, Qari]], [[Taliban]] interior minister - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...27), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ... F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in...
10: ...the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
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14: ...but was re-elected in the 1923 and June 1927 elections. She died in July 1927 after a short illness. - 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) - 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... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ...[[January 7]], [[1839]] – [[January 25]], [[1908]]) was the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|Engl...
5: ... poverty on [[January 25]], [[1908]], in [[Viareggio]], [[Italy]].
7: ==Bibliography==
15: * ''Helianthus '' (1908) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
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...
23: ...gmatism; thus at the opening of the German occupation of France she favored collaborative Vichy govern... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools...
7: === Biography ===
8: ...(This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the P...
10: ...rticularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]]...
12: ...eople would have had some influence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
14: ...andscapes that are noted for their strong composition and vibrant colors. She was, however, best known...
16: ...ne TheBath.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''The Bath''. ([[1908]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]]. Pastel. 60x49 cm. Grenob...
18: ... relationship with Valadon would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he sai...
20: ...he [[Soci鴩 Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]. A perfectionist, Valadon worked for 13 years on her oil paint...
24: ...wear a corsage of carrots, kept a goat in her studio to "eat up her bad drawings", and fed caviar to h... - 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... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...odern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth annive...
9: ... of the poor and indigent. She announced her decision to her family in [[1845]], evoking intense anger...
11: ...the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
13: In [[1846]] she visited [[Kaiserwerth]], a pioneering hospital established and managed by an ord...
15: == Rejection of marriage proposal == - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...[[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Chu...
7: ...hodist]], and Mildred Ona Pearce, 36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her...
9: ...riting letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution]], debating local clergy, etc.
13: ... short courtship, they were married on August 12, 1908. Shortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evang...
15: ...th the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: '''Ruth Elizabeth Davis''' ([[April 5]], [[1908]] – [[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known ...
5: ... aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Reperto...
7: ...became a star in ''[[Of Human Bondage]]''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for thi...
9: ...0]]), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.
11: ...earned her another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis an... - Rhododendron (3464 bytes)
2: ...y-eiffel-public-domain-20040617.jpg|250px]] | caption = ''Rhododendron ponticum''}}
5: ...x_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
11: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Subgenera}...
18: *''Therorhodion'' - Accordion (10069 bytes)
2: An '''accordion''' is a small portable [[free reed instrument|fr...
4: It is possible that some ancient civilisation had reed instruments. It has been suggested that...
9: ...Accordeon.jpg|thumbnail|200px|right|a piano accordion]]
13: *Reeds sound only if air flows in one direction
15: *Activation of sound through air ([[Bernoulli effect]]) - Middle Kingdom of Egypt (5374 bytes)
2: The '''Middle Kingdom''' is a period in the history of [[ancient Egypt]] stretching f...
5: ...t, bringing an end to the [[First Intermediate Period]]. Some authorities point to cultural difference...
8: ...of Mentuhotep IV. This explains the smooth transition of power as a palace coup by Amenemhat that resu...
10: ...emhat created his son Senuseret I co-regent. In [[1908 BC]] he was presumably murdered by his bodyguard ...
12: ...territories lost during the First Intermediate Period. The Lybians were subdued. - Conventional Egyptian chronology (10774 bytes)
1: This is a '''Conventional Egyptian chronology'''.
3: ==Introduction==
5: ...h century but not including any of the major revision proposals that have also been made in that time.
9: ...ology presented below, which is the “Conventional Chronology” that is quoted by [[David Ro...
15: * Predynastic Egypt is from [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/ Late Predynastic and Early Dynas... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...er the [[United States Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of governmen...
7: ...ffice is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
12: ...f the United States at the time the U.S. Constitution was adopted), be at least 35 years of age, and h...
14: ...sh Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend thi...
16: ...ge W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: ...font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
19: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[June 24]], [[1908]]</td></tr>
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. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
1: ...Antarctica.png|thumb|250px|World map showing location of Antarctica]]
4: ...|Greek]] ἀνταρκτικός, opposite the arctic) is...
6: Although legends and speculation about a [[Terra Australis]] ("Southern Land") go...
8: ...[population]]: indeed, it has no permanent population at all. It is also the continent with the highes...
15: ..., but [[ice]] there can last for extended time periods. Nearly all of Antarctica is covered by an [[i...
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