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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]] - 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. - 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... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: [[ Image:Irish_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Counte...
2: ...was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ... visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...ist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
8: ...government. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of ... - 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...sentative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ... Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ...t Riot]] drew the young Emma Goldman to the anarchist movement, and at twenty she became a [[revolutio...
13: ...rkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United States at the time. Her d...
15: ...also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ge|English]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out...
5: ...er younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]...
9: ...eral other works simultaneously in Danish and English, mostly collections of short stories; she also w...
11: ...on. She had suffered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: Pickford was born '''Gladys Louise Smith''' in [[Toronto, Ontario]], [[Canada]] (fo...
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. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] wri...
4: ... she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartr...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - 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 ...
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.
13: ... in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a ... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
8: ...er Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in t...
12: ...lo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
18: ...on would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an ...
20: ...[[Soci鴩 Nationale des Beaux-Arts]]. A perfectionist, Valadon worked for 13 years on her oil painting... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
5: ...]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
11: ...o appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for w...
18: ...litary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...ne 7]], [[1909]] - [[August 7]], [[1974]]) specialised in [[anesthesia]] and childbirth. She graduated...
3: ...f [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and... - 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. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...[[American]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]]...
9: ...hrough. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, they never divorced, and Bo...
11: ...sonal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ...goods (turkeys). In both of these instances there is the remote possibility that Clyde acted without c...
19: ...young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes over to her brother's house and... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ... (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
2: ...after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she was revered by the [[Catholic ...
7: ... Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disinheriting Charles, the [[Dauphin]] ([[crown princ...
9: ===Visions and mission===
11: ...n ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|M... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: ...of a [[saint]]. A [[shrine]] that houses a relic is called a [[reliquary]].
3: ==Christian relics==
5: ===History of Christian relics===
7: ...cited for the efficacy of relics that are objects is the passage in Acts mentioning how Paul's handker...
9: ...[[Golden Legend]]'' or the works of [[Caesar of Heisterbach]]. These miracle tales made relics much s... - Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
2: ...ame fame as Peary in an America where [[racism|racist]] views were still common.
4: ...later in collaboration with [[Bradley Robinson]] his biography ''Dark Companion'' in [[1947]].
6: ... children with [[Inuit]] women, two of whom were discovered by [[S. Allen Counter]] in a [[Greenland]]...
10: Matthew Henson is the great-grand nephew of [[Josiah Henson]], a fa... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
5: ...He was admitted to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as a lawyer in [[Columbia City, Indiana]]....
7: ... platform through the state legislature, nor in raising a convention to rewrite the state constitution...
11: ... and served as Vice President until [[1921]]. It is said that Marshall initially turned down the nomi...
13: ...ited States Capitol|Capitol]] building. Before this, Presidents had made a habit of using the Vice Pr...
17: ...ope]] to sign the [[Versailles treaty]] and push his [[League of Nations]] idea.
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