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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]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ell as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese c...
7: ... craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In late [[Neolithic]] times, the ...
11: ...ou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...ou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|C...
18: ...0 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, found on pottery and shells, have been alleged ... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
25: ...kerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954)
64: ...la]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champion - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
17: ...n|Agazarian, Jack]], (1916-1945), [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
20: ...ant to Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
47: *[[Antonio Aguilar|Aguilar, Antonio]], Mexican singer
48: ...ilar|Aguilar, Pepe]], Mexican singer, son of Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre - 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, ...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - 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...
8: ...]]. As a member of the ICA she took part in the [[1916]] [[Easter Rising]] and was sentenced to death by...
10: ...the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and other works, bef...
6: ...t workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chern...
8: ==Immigration to America==
9: ...ist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Gol...
13: ...ime. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopula... - 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... - 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]]. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
3: ...the first female artist to paint history and religious paintings, at a time when such heroic themes we...
5: ==Biography==
7: ...ly inspiration from [[Caravaggio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in tur...
9: ...humb|200px| Susanna and the Elders, Sch?rn Collection, Pommersfelden]]
10: ...e, Artemisia assimilated the realism of [[Caravaggio]] without being indifferent to the language of th... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...e style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a pow...
6: ... schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]. In [[1916]] started teaching at [[Columbia College]] in [[C...
8: ...s especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: In [[1916]], Stieglitz arranged for O'Keeffe to move to New...
12: ...rk, O'Keefe's work received a great deal of attention and commanded high prices. Yet O'Keeffe tired of... - 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 - 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... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... [[crystallographer]] who made important contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of ...
5: ...tary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Manda...
8: ...t the ''British Coal Utilization Research Association'' studying the fine structure of coal and charco...
9: ...ring, her mentor, had been unhappy about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the pape...
12: ...a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill. - 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: ...ing at the urging of her father. After her conversion and a short courtship, they were married on Augu...
15: ...th the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
2: ...posite the [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], [[London]]]]
7: ...his offence. She made no defence and was [[Execution by firing squad |shot]] at dawn on October 12, b...
9: ... had been allowed to see her, "I realise that patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitte...
13: In [[1916]], [[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rocki... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
1: ...almost invariably used as the bass of an oboe section incorporating the regular oboe and the [[cor ang...
3: ...mposers themselves were unclear as to the distinction between the two instruments.
5: ... seldom carried on the regular strength of professional orchestras. - 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. - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
7: ...aising a convention to rewrite the state constitution.
11: ...id that Marshall initially turned down the nomination, assuming the job would be boring.
13: ...e of the opportunity to show that he had no intention of trusting Marshall with delicate business. Si...
15: ...trate party unity if he kept Marshall on; thus in 1916 Wilson and Marshall became the first President an...
17: ...[[Versailles treaty]] and push his [[League of Nations]] idea.
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