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- 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]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people_A}}
4: ...ie]], (born [[1951]]), [[Taoiseach|Irish prime minister]] and leader of [[Fianna Fᩬ]]
6: *[[Alf Ahlberg|Ahlberg, Alf]], Swedish writer
7: ...Ahlefeldt, Karl Gustav]], ([[1910]]-[[1985]]), Danish film actor
8: ...hlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...toria Mary of Teck'''), (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]],...
5: ... Mary was known for setting the tone of the [[British Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality ...
9: ...ustria]]). Through the House of W?berg, Mary was distantly descended from the [[Habsburgs]], the once ...
11: ...[Italy]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]...
13: ... week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aun... - 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]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
12: ...der sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become h... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...[[February 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[civil righ...
7: ...r early education in a school her father ran for his and neighbors' children, and from the age of 17 t...
9: ...he Revolution (newspaper)|The Revolution]]'', published in [[New York City]], edited by Stanton, and h...
13: ...life]] views of Susan B. Anthony. Many early feminists, aware of how the procedure endangered women's ...
19: ...on [[March 13]], [[1906]]. Anthony is known as [[List of people known as the father or mother of somet... - 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: ... to leave the Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into the fold th... - 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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
1: ...[image:Cpankhurst.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|'''Christabel Pankhurst''']]
3: '''Christabel Harriette Pankhurst''' ([[September 22]], [[...
5: ...e after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ... States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1936. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
5: ...Pankhurst|Christabel]], would also become an activist.
7: ...Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast t...
9: ...age Federation]] and then to the [[Workers' Socialist Federation]]. She founded the newspaper of the W...
11: ... dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
13: ...the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Communist Workers Party. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...he capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...ters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, ...
10: ...atured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. The Salon critics claimed th... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...90]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of Bohemia'''.
3: ... she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s...
5: ...usband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...te]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, compos...
11: ...rniture, rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...o cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...nation. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...ionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until Ju...
14: ...ilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Volo... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[Unite...
6: ...kly became enamored and offered to help her establish a cosmetics business. Despite her lack of educat...
8: ...ting her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] t...
10: ...ling with the reality of her estranged and impoverished family.
12: ...d the [[Distinguished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]]. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...iral '''Grace Murray Hopper''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an early compute...
3: ...rst woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Cri...
5: ...a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work o...
9: ... code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her...
14: ...1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]]. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: Prof. Dr. '''Maria G?rt-Mayer''' ([[June 28]], [[1906]] - [[February 20]], [[1972]]) was born Maria G?r...
3: ... G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[Un...
5: ...ed a model for the nuclear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1...
7: ...he Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea...
9: ...; some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise." - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: '''Josephine Baker''' ([[June 3]], [[1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Joseph...
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ...mb|The [[Mona Lisa]] is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
2: ...ve been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to be among the most important...
4: [[Drawing]], by comparison, is the process of making marks on a surface by apply...
6: ==[[History of painting]]==
10: ''See also [[Art history]].'' - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...as a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic of the now extinct [[Sovie...
3: Kazakhstan is the ninth-largest country in the world by area, b...
40: | '''[[Prime minister]]'''
44: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 9th]]<br>2,717,300 [...
47: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 57th]]<br/>15,...
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