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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...e use of the variant spelling ''M骩co'', see section [[#The name|The name]] below) is a [[country]] l...
14: image_map = LocationMexico.png |
15: national_motto =''Sufragio efectivo, No reelecci
16: ...nguage|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
17: national_anthem = ''[[Mexicanos, al grito de guerra]]''... - 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]]
105: | [[1911]] — [[1917]] - 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]] - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
13: *[[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
25: ...kerman, Forrest J.]], (born 1916), US science fiction author
50: *[[Harold Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Harold]] (c1877-1917)
61: *[[Julio Acosta|Acosta Garc� Julio]] (1872-1954)
64: ...la]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champion - 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... - Indira Gandhi (15405 bytes)
6: | [[November 19]], [[1917]]
20: | [[Indian National Congress|Congress (I)]]
51: ...om [[January 14]], [[1980]] until her [[assassination]] in [[1984]].
57: ...a was expected to be a passive leader, but her actions proved her otherwise.
59: ... member of Parliament in her father's [[Indian National Congress]] Party, and was appointed a minister... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, the...
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]]. - 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: ...ment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: - 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: ...ion in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of...
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - 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: ...exual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, ...
13: ...27, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
5: ...himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani...
7: ...at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took...
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.
17: Although she won the case, the situation profoundly affected her for the remainder of her... - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affai...
3: ...ip to [[Vassar College]]. After her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
7: ...the poet [[George Dillon]], fourteen years her junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
9: ...orting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism."
22: ...rdy]] once said that America had two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vinc... - 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: ...ed country except Spain and Turkey. She died in [[1917]]. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...bolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]],...
4: ==Biography==
6: ...r of Alvah and Vesta Walker, she believed the fashions of the day, which included such binding clothin...
10: ...Chickamauga]]. Finally, she was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilia...
12: ...s later appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. During this service, she frequently cr... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ... for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]...
10: ...certs were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able t...
12: ...by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pab...
14: ...[[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of...
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