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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 explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - 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: 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 - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...st as a member of the [[Menshevik]]s, then from [[1914]] on as a [[Bolshevik]]. She was effectively exil...
5: .... However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks.
7: ...he was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stal...
11: ...rs' Opposition]]. However, [[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollont...
15: ...Bolshevik" and a major public critic of the Communist Party who was neither purged nor executed by the... - 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: ...tobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after seeing her most arde... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sange...
5: ...ed William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, foll...
7: ... Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and device...
9: ...lth for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ... sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - 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... - 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]...
7: In 1914 she married her cousin, [[Baron Bror von Blixen-F...
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. - Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
3: '''Marguerite Donnadieu''' ([[April 4]], [[1914]] - [[March 3]], [[1996]]), better known as '''Ma...
7: ...mon amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ... tell, a story over images whose relation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential.
11: She is interred in the [[Cimeti貥 du Montparnasse]]. - 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... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: ...orn in [[Sun Prairie, Wisconsin|Sun Prairie]], [[Wisconsin]].
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of...
6: ...in the public schools in [[Amarillo, Texas]] in [[1914]]. In [[1916]] started teaching at [[Columbia Col...
8: ...by the drawings, Stieglitz began negotiations to display her work and she allowed him to exhibit some ...
10: ...fe and Stieglitz fell in love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglit... - 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.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Nancy Harkness Love (1763 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Harkness Love''' ([[February 14]], [[1914]] - [[October 22]], [[1976]]) was an [[United Sta...
7: ...vision. She then convinced the division to establish the [[Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron]] in [... - 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... - 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... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...egitimate daughter of Judith van Hard, a Dutch Jewish [[courtesan]] known as "Youle." Her father was r...
8: ...or [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays throughout her life.
10: ...[Lou Tellegen]]). She married Greek-born actor Aristides Damala (aka [[Jacques Damala]]) in London in...
12: ...ll. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at ho...
14: ... made a member of France's [[Legion of Honor]] in 1914. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
4: ...in need of money, encouraged May and her younger sister Flora to perform. Creating a singing act, the ...
6: The Irwin sisters proved popular enough to earn regular spots f...
8: ...iss]], became the first screen kiss in cinematic history.
10: .... Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same year she began making records for ...
12: ...on of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black is Back]]''. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...ima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...rendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and one of the first international fema...
8: ...erchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was...
14: ...later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, saw Lenglen saving two match points and winn...
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