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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]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing... - 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]] - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...ions]] ([[1971]]–[[1973]]), [[Republican National Committee]] chairman ([[1973]]–[[1974]])...
21: == Youth, education == - 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
55: *[[`Abdu'l-Bah, (died 1921), religious leader
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dune...
74: *[[James Abercrombie Junior|Abercrombie Junior, James]], (died 1775), British Colonel, killed a...
91: ...aharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - 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... - 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: ...chools. She joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[19...
18: ==Emigration to Palestine, 1921== - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...o a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and an early [[feminist]].
5: ...omen's Suffrage Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
7: ... British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name ...
9: ... the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - 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]]. - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ...e style stressed contours and subtle tonal transitions, which often transformed the subject into a pow...
8: ...s especially impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.
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] - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
1: {{Infobox_Biography |
4: image_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for...
11: ...vist philosophy#Ethics: rational self-interest|rational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her nove...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
16: ==Biography== - 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... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ... passed the University's arbiter entrance examinations and enrolled there in the fall. Among her prof...
9: ...pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more variation; all the dancers are spinning twirling round and...
13: ...eller]] that would be used for Teller's investigations into the possibility of a [[hydrogen bomb]].
17: ...lectures about her research at four major institutions. Two of her former universities honour her too.... - 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... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
22: ...orite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ...y|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was endearingly wicked in a flapper starlet...
78: *1924 [[Conchita]]
79: *1924 [[This Marriage]]
80: *1924 [[The Creaking Chair]] - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...per ads. Her first [[film|motion picture]] aspirations came when she appeared in an advertising short ...
10: ...ajor role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He als...
12: ...Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fire...
19: ...tar]], she was one of the few who made the transition to [[Sound film|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice ...
23: ... [[Sweden]]!" This would frighten the [[movie studio]] heads, who gave in to her every wish. She was k... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...the rink several times to ask her coach for directions.
6: ... year. She also won six consecutive European championships.
10: ...biography, which was republished in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]...
12: ...tad]]. Together, they accumulated a large collection of modern art that formed the basis for the [[He...
19: *''[[One in a Million]]'' ([[1936]]) - 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... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...eam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
5: ...here the locomotives push the trains in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the op...
8: ...ns why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than in sel...
16: ==Classification by motive power==
20: ...in illustration.jpg|thumb|right|300px|An illustration of a historical train. Pictures provided by by [...
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