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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
57: ...6]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
63: | [[Iowa]]
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] - 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 ... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...ia]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princess of Wales]], [[Duke of C...
5: ...f for formal events, Queen Mary's valuable collection of jewels built up over her years as queen are n...
11: ...ks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]...
32: ...n]] <td>[[12 July]] [[1905]] <td>[[18 January]] [[1919]]<td> suffered from epilepsy, raised apart from h...
40: The Duchess of York was not considered to be emotionally attached to her children. The royal nanny lo... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...ilroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919) and his wife, [[Anne Witcher Keene]]. Her sister...
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, ... - 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...
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. - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...o a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and an early [[feminist]].
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
9: ... the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...uccessful [[revolution]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's or...
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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...erican Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
7: ...blic schools in the [[United States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[1964]] [[Life magazine|''Life...
9: ...f [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution | First Amendment]] public policy." She acted as...
11: ...tion of the [[United States Constitution|Constitution]]. In [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Ch...
13: ...ow]] might have characterized as [[self-actualization|self-actualizing]]. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
1: [[Image:george_eliot.jpg|thumb|right|George Eliot]]
3: ...''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [...
5: ...rutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
7: ==Biography==
8: ...[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation. - 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 - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...d for female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacifi...
8: ...ring this time, she was able to keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even featured in ...
10: ...am. The two developed a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on ...
14: ...French Government, and the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert ...
18: ...publicity would help him establish his own navigation school in Florida. - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ....E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Lit...
11: ...ll as emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chrono...
13: ...resented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic na...
17: ...xamination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biography by Woolf's own nephew, [[Quentin Bell]]. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
11: ...resses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in every human society. (Her cri...
15: ... Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. entry into
18: ...fficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come.
20: ...[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] that permitting continuation of the Emperor's reign be part of the eventual s... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
8: ...l Gordan]], and rapidly built a world-wide reputation, but the [[University of G?ngen]] refused to let...
10: ...se." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]]...
12: ...etry|symmetries]] by physicists, into [[conservation laws]]. The results of Noether's theorem are pa...
14: ...m]]). Rings satisfying the ascending chain condition on ideals are now known as [[Noetherian ring]]s. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... York]], [[United States]] ? died [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]...
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 ... - 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... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
9: ... most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in s...
15: ...e was never really able to obtain the same reputation at home. Upon a visit to the United States in [[...
21: ... not legally binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader J...
23: Baker wrote several autobiographies, each containing a different story about ... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...]-[[1900]] in [[Australia]] and some short visitations to [[Europe]].
5: ...m]]). She was a [[leader]] who emphasized [[education]] and [[health]] and promoted establishment of [...
7: ...ticles and 40 books; but today, including compilations from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than ...
11: ...reasons is that her writings led to one more divisions in the Christian Church (the Body of Christ) an...
13: ...aven'' in [[Saint Helena, California]], is a [[National Historic Landmark]].
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