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- Mexico (27255 bytes)
2: ...ca]] and the most populous [[Spanish language|Spanish]]-speaking country in the world.
16: ([[Spanish language|Spanish]]: ''Effective suffrage, no reelection)'' |
18: official_languages = [[Spanish Language|Spanish]] |
42: established_events = • Declared<br> •...
43: established_dates = From [[Spain]]<br>[[September 16]], [[... - 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]] - Bagpipes (20858 bytes)
3: ... using enclosed [[reed (music)|reed]]s. The term is equally correct in the singular or plural, althou...
6: ...age:annotated_stand.jpg|right|thumb|A set of Scottish Great Highland bagpipes.<br>
16: ...he Middle east, and the Balkans, a whole goatskin is used, cured with salt and alum.
18: ...a, and cylindrical bores for the Musette and Scottish Small Pipes). In general, chanters with a cylin...
20: ... overblown. Sometimes the term is also somewhat mistakenly used to describe the general sound produce... - Ionic order (6526 bytes)
1: ...ruines plus beaux des monuments de la Grèce'' Paris, 1758 (Plate XX)]]
4: ...6th century Ionic temple was the [[Temple of Artemis]] at Ephesus, one of the [[Seven Wonders of the W...
6: ...e [[16th-century]] Renaissance architect and theorist [[Vincenzo Scamozzi]] designed a version of such...
8: ...er of hollow flutes in the shaft settled at 24. This standardization kept the fluting in a familiar pr...
9: ...c Greek Ionic capital, in ''Nordisk familjebok'', 1910]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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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: Ag (3474 bytes)
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10: *[[Andre Agassi|Agassi, Andre]], (1970-), tennis player
11: ...anuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]...
21: ...on|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
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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 - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - 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... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
1: ...:Goldman-4.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Emma Goldman, c. 1910]]
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... - 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... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...es of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinism]].
7: ...n [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...Akhmatova was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an int...
13: There is a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain Hou... - 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... - 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. - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...dash;[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
3: ...rder of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ...aic virus]], [[vitamin B12]], and [[insulin]]. This latter achievement took her 34 years, having star...
7: ...[[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallography and in [[197...
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structura... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
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."
11: ...arded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Mari... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...ng]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
7: ...ister (named [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed wo...
9: ...er family in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ...f the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical care.
13: ... care and by the commitment and practises of the sisters.
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