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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]] - 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
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornithologist]]
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...st as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effectively exil...
5: ... [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshe...
7: ...tion, and working laws put in place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist f...
11: ...[[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollontai was more or less totally ...
13: ...er of the Soviet delegation to the [[League of Nations]]. She died in [[1952]]. - 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... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the public ...
7: ...cene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control...
11: ...basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual f...
13: ...27, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...She began publishing fiction in various Danish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her...
7: ...ined in Kenya and continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 ...
9: ...multaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitl...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphili...
29: * ''On Modern Marriage and Other Observations'' (posthumous 1986, USA) - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: '''Marguerite Donnadieu''' ([[April 4]], [[1914]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Ma...
7: ...selling, ostensibly [[Autobiographical novel|autobiographical work]] ''[[L'Amant]]'' ([[1984]]), trans...
9: ... rather than tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...the [[London School of Art]] until [[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[P...
5: ...himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani...
7: ...ga Workshops on decorative art. Her artistic creations were widely exhibited during [[World War I]] in...
11: ...r Fry]] assisting him with the avant-garde productions of fabrics, clothes, murals, furniture, rugs, a...
15: ... sued her and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book. - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...e style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a pow...
6: ...in the public schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]. In [[1916]] started teaching at [[Columbia Col...
8: ...s especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
12: ...rk, O'Keefe's work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. Yet O'Keeffe tired of...
20: ...shtml Biography at FemBio - Notable Women International] - 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... - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Harkness Love''' ([[February 14]], [[1914]] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United Sta...
3: ...e education, she worked in various jobs in [[aviation]]. She married Robert Maclure Love in [[1936]].
5: ... Car Company]], testing various aircraft modifications including the new [[tricycle landing gear]].
7: ...s ferrying division. She then convinced the division to establish the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Sq... - 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...
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...
26: ... painter, [[Andr頕tter]]. She married Utter in [[1914]], but the marriage also did not last. - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...ed into the ''Conservatoire de Musique et D飬amation'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]] for theatr...
6: ...States]]. She soon developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress, earning the title, "The Divin...
8: ...culpting herself, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series...
10: ...arried a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska, 1863-1914). Later lovers included several artists ([[Gusta...
12: ...went on to star in eight motion pictures and two biographical films in all. The latter included ''Sara... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...n''' born [[June 27]], [[1862]] in [[Whitby, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in ...
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...
14: ...a summer home on secluded Club Island in the Ontario part of the [[Thousand Islands]] and at her winte... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...e first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...ale tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the d...
8: ...cise where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had ...
10: ...ed most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on hol...
14: ...[[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[Wimbledon Championships]] were again organised after a four year hi...
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