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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
37: | [[1933]]
57: ...6]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
63: | [[Iowa]]
64: | [[Des Moines, Iowa|Des Moines]] - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
19: ...Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer.
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
12: ...rd Aiken|Aiken, Howard]], (1900-1973), computing pioneer
23: *[[Airto]], (born 1951), [[percussion]]ist - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...erving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled ar...
5: ...sal Declaration of Human Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]]...
9: ...[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
13: ... viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
16: ...oodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagree... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret D...
9: ...cal Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...conversion to Buddhism in Ceylon, and their promotion of Buddhist revival activities on the subcontine...
13: ...re with his father and brother for a few months prior to this. This discovery started years of upheav... - 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 - 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... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...n]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
16: ... South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridg...
27: ...tp://www.bbc.co.uk/humber/famous_folk/amyjohnson/biog1.shtml BBC Humber site for Johnson centenary] - 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: ...holarship 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... - 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]]. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
11: ...ds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor ...
17: .... (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biology'' 1: 573-576, 1994)
18: *Perutz, Max F. (''Quarterly Review of Biophysics'' 27: 333-337, 1994) - 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: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
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. - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...] section of [[Baltimore]]. According to her autobiography, her house was the first on their street to...
14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
18: ... with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy.
20: ...inging trivial pop songs, her unique tone and emotional commitment made her performances special.
24: Holiday was a dabbler in recreational drug use for most of her life, smoking [[marij... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
4: ==Biography==
5: ..." Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
7: ... was "Down Hearted Blues", a song written and previously recorded by [[Alberta Hunter]]. Working a hea...
9: ...chestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radically differe...
11: ...who happened to be recording in the adjoining studio, dropped by for an almost inaudible guest visit. ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...]] during the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...en 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
11: ...de Barrow as they evaded capture and awaited the violent deaths they viewed as certain. She was fond o...
15: ...ller jobs, robbing grocery stores and filling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank...
23: ... one-week escape ending with his recapture in [[Ohio]], Clyde remained incarcerated in the [[Texas sta... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
4: == Biography ==
5: ...for by servants who believed in the many superstitions of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her to...
7: ... [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] an explosion claimed Agardi’s life, but H.P. Blavatsky ...
9: ...udience]]. One new feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of no...
15: ... divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric spiritual knowledge is... - 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... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...ally used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ... [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...an. As significantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union which placed its aviators among those of celebri...
7: .... From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-line distance fl...
9: ...n were decorated with "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females ever to receive it a...
11: ...the three regiments received their formal designations as follows:
13: ...le regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara Kaz...
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