Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
60: | [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could have been born in other pla...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided b...
3: ... or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Amer...
5: ...own to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing pre...
7: ... anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
3: ...a, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
4: ...Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...(1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
14: ...thur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
20: ...nger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[...
4: ...y tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
6: ...orf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of [[John Jacob Astor I...
8: ...he was required to give up his seat in the [[British House of Commons]] as MP for [[Plymouth Sutton (...
10: ...ewspaper, would never forgive Claud Cockburn and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...ght|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...elphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. ci...
6: ...ed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
12: ...der sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become h...
14: ...8. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...esant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...heosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
4: ...men's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific wr...
5: ...Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
9: .... He had to leave the Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into t... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s colle...
6: ...od trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a grow...
8: ...Russian workers' parties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of its...
10: ...[[Middle Ages]] and economic and stock exchange crises.
12: .... But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members of parliament focused more and more on g... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...me of "Mrs Pankhurst", more than any other, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women ...
5: ...ement by her daughters, [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and [[Sylvia Pankhurst|Sylvia]], both of w...
7: ...lt. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after seeing ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ... a steamship who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking...
7: ...he play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickfor...
9: ...d from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inability to acc...
11: ...and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
15: ...g "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...scribed as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[American Red...
6: ...he could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "artichoke".
8: ...luding the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would become Clar...
10: == Teaching, organizing, learning bureaucracy, a mission ==
14: ...l science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and religion. Afterward, she was ... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
4: ...rsing [[typhoid]] patients at a copper mine in [[Bisbee, Arizona]] until accepting an appointment as ...
6: ...t of the United States Army Nurse Corps. During this time, her invaluable contributions to her profess...
8: ...e organized for disaster relief and over 8,000 registered nurses were trained and ready for duty by th...
10: ...he top of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurs...
12: ...ross and to preserve artifacts that document the history of Red Cross nursing. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (30.0...
4: ...the official name of the city, in local speech it is typically called simply by the name of the countr...
6: ...irat Al Adaa" meaning "subduer of the enemies". This title was given to the city as many armies were d...
11: ...ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focused over the capital city of Cairo, Egypt, se...
14: Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of E... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ...sh;[[1801]]) [[President of the United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth Preside...
22: ...gland]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...t, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: ...[1818]]), the daughter of a [[Congregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, Joh... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
13: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1893]])</td></tr>
15: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1889]])<br>
21: ...s|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
23: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
25: [[Thomas A. Hendricks]] ([[1885]], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...capital of the [[Al Iskandariyah]] governate. It is located at {{coor dm|31|12|N|29|15|E|}}, 208 km (...
3: ... had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
5: ...'s state-of-the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
7: [[Image:Alexandria_egypt_6.jpg|thumb|right|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close ...
9: == History == - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...rrive at the age of the Earth and outlines their history.
4: ...arth creationism]] (see [http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v24/i1/belief.asp Old-earth or young...
6: ...e]], who thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...ence, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the mid-[[18th Century]] that the...
11: ...position and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,0...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).