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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]]
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
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 - 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... - 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: ...]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[19...
8: ...government. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of ... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...rah Ann Stabenow''' (born [[April 29]], [[1950]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] [...
5: ...Abraham by a narrow margin (his wife Jane Abraham is rumored to be a Republican candidate for Stabenow...
7: She is a member of the [[U.S. Senate Committee on Budget...
9: ...ed in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], when [[Francis B. Stockbridge]] died.
11: ...mocratic caucus. As caucus secretary, she will assist [[Senate Minority Leader]] [[Harry Reid]], D-Nev... - 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. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...uary 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and...
8: ...ly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordina...
10: ...ks helped make her fellow Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle.
17: While few historians doubt Park's contribution to the civil rig...
19: Standard accounts of Parks' act of [[civil disobedience]] in [[1955]] refer to her simply as a "... - 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... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...nce. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] ...
7: ...f the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]],...
9: ... and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordi...
11: ...studio, dropped by for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, prefe...
13: ...ling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi along [[United States Highway 61]]. She wa... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...ter Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[193...
7: ...36 years his junior, who had been hired to nurse his wife during her terminal illness. (The age differ...
9: ... her public speaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defendi...
13: ...ontracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave ...
15: ...n|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913. - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
3: ...'' (spelled '''Margarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who ...
5: ...nd became an exotic dancer, performing "[[Orientalism|Oriental-style]]" dances. Her stage name Mata Ha...
7: ...l agent for the French and the Germans, but there is no evidence that she ever produced any substantia...
9: ... third tale claims that not only did she fling a kiss to her killers, she flung open her long coat and...
11: ...lure, and the guns were loaded properly. The tale is highly unlikely to be true, as it bears a suspici... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ...was born into slavery in [[Maryland]]. Usually it is thought that she was born in around 1820, but tha...
7: == Escape and abolitionist career ==
9: ...ympathetic [[Quaker]]s, members of the [[Abolitionist]] movement who were instrumental in maintaining ...
13: ...the chickens and chase them to recapture them. This would amuse the whites who would assume the ineff... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: ...ndash; [[July 7]], [[1967]]) was an [[England|English]] [[Actor|actress]] who was born '''Vivian Mary ...
7: ...k Gable]] including [[Norma Shearer]], [[Bette Davis]], [[Jean Arthur]], [[Katharine Hepburn]], and [[...
11: ...or her portrayal the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
13: ...citating. She had also been plagued by [[Bipolar Disorder|manic-depression]] for some time, which was ... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
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2: ...ite iris (small).jpg|240px]]| caption = A white iris}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
9: {{Taxobox_genus_entry | taxon = '''''Iris'''''}}<br />{{Taxobox authority|author = [[Carolu... - Rose (15436 bytes)
2: ...e:4-11-07_10a.jpg|240px]]| caption = ''Rosa arvensis'' (Field Rose)}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliopsida]]}}
12: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen| plural_taxon = Species}}
15: ...du/plantbio/260/Rosaceae/Slide17.html U. of Illinois] 2002-05-29</small> - 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)
2: ...ates of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
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... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
33: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
44: ... election]] further polarized the nation. Before his [[inauguration]] in [[March]] of [[1861]], seven ...
46: ...spire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1864|1864...
48: ...ead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the United States w...
50: ... ranked as one of the greatest presidents, though is criticized by some for overstepping the tradition...
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