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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
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2: ...onomic boom was accompanied by the rise of [[populism]] and the American [[labor movement]]. Finally,...
7: ... of laws, passed by the Federal government, established the conditions and procedures for reintegratin...
9: ...t of 1866]]; however, his veto was overridden. This failure of the federal government to effectively ...
11: ...or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel States." - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
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7: ...Keep 'Em Down On the Farm After They've Seen [[Paris|Paree]]?". In fact, many did not remain "down on...
9: ...the nation rejected Wilson's brand of interventionism.
14: ...th the election of [[Warren G. Harding]], who promised a "return to normalcy" after the traumatic year...
16: ...ovies]], [[automobile]]s, and [[chemical]]s) flourished. The unevenness was also geographic: the stan...
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- 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: 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
12: *[[Louis Agassiz|Agassiz, Louis]], (1807-1873), work on [[ice age]]s, [[glacier]]...
21: ...on|Agmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: ...Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - 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: ... seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do...
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: ...]] 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 ... - 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... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
1: ...renBlixen.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|Blixen in Kenya, 1918]]
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. - 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: ..., rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted ... - 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. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear ph...
4: ...her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ... [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later. - 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: ... after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New Yo... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
14: ...lznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: Polled, moviegoers thought otherwise. Her screen test for [[Gone with the Wind]] put ...
20: ...in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won ...
22: ...avorite as is her role as the Black Widow on television's Batman.
24: ... by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And beh... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ..., while 3rd place finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
3: ... [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[athletics|athlete]]. She is most famous for winning four gold medals at the [...
11: ...t decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised her to do athletics because there were already ...
13: ...Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a middle distance runner. The following year, only eighteen ye...
15: ...l (the sixth team in the final, [[Germany]], was disqualified). - Hair (11457 bytes)
2: ...or which is '''[[trichome]]s''' (see for further discussion of plant hairs).
4: ...s often [[pigment]]ed, it provides coloration. This might serve to [[camouflage]] an individual; in s...
6: ...beards. The trench warfare between [[1914]] and [[1918]] exposed men to [[lice]] and [[flea]] infestatio...
8: The hair of non-human animal species is commonly referred to as ''[[fur]]''.
13: ...o a great length before being shed. [[Anthropologist]]s speculate that the functional significance of... - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
5: ... whose family moved to town in 1890, always kept his first impression of her -- "golden curls" and "th...
7: ...ant Truman left for the battlefields of France in 1918. They were married on [[June 28]], [[1919]]; they...
9: ...lic had come to expect a candidate's wife to do. His election to the [[United States Senate|Senate]] i...
11: ...man found the [[White House]]'s lack of privacy distasteful. As her husband put it later, she was "no...
13: ... corps assigned to her. The press conference consisted of written questions in advance of which the r... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
32: | '''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
42: ...[[civil rights]] bills embroiled him in a bitter dispute with the Congressional Republicans, leading t...
45: ... never attended any type of school; his wife has historically been credited with teaching him to read ...
86: ...stmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[William Dennison]]'''||align="left"|1865–1866
105: ...se, was run by the North. Johnson's public criticisms of Congress provoked much talk of impeachment o... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
15: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
24: ...ne of America's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corrup...
26: ...accomplishments of his administration, including his struggle to preserve [[Reconstruction]], and look...
30: ...[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...g 21st in a class of 39. At the academy, he established a reputation as a fearless and expert horseman... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
14: | wife=[[Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur]]
18: ...]. Garfield was shot by [[Charles Guiteau]], a disgruntled office seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garf...
20: ...iends. Interestingly, Chester Arthur pronounced his middle name, Alan, with the stress on the ''secon...
22: ...enty-four hours after being found unconscious by his [[nurse]].
27: ...y that Arthur was born near the Canadian border. His parents were William Arthur and Malvina Stone. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
13: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1893]])</td></tr>
15: [[Benjamin Harrison]] ([[1889]])<br>
21: ...s|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
23: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
25: [[Thomas A. Hendricks]] ([[1885]], [[List of leaders who died in office|died in office]])<...
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