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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]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
1: {{History_of_China}}
2: ...lternated between periods of political union and disunion, and was occasionally conquered by external ...
5: == Prehistoric times ==
7: ...c]] times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first vil...
13: == Ancient history == - 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... - 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: ...quired by-election. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman electe...
10: ...ewspaper, would never forgive Claud Cockburn and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Mens...
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... - 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 ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...e usually militantly violent) and an early [[feminist]].
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
7: ... the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name of the [[Fawcett Soci...
9: ... of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female doctor, and the mother of [[Philippa Fawc... - 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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church...
4: ...arried [[Roman Catholic]] and refused to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced R...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') reached the [[United States ...
9: ...the separation of church and state, and addresses issues of [[First Amendment to the United States Con... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...rovincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...r works were taken seriously. Female authors published freely under their own names, but Eliot wanted...
8: ...shed a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', and it was at that time that she began ...
10: ..." were well received and launched Evans on a novelistic career. Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a ...
15: ...g in love with her. Yes behold me in love with this great horse-faced bluestocking.</blockquote> - 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. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...female pilots, and remembered for her mysterious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocea...
6: ...ause of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of he...
8: ...featured in local newspapers while she taught English.
10: ...join pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon. The team left [[Trepassey Harbor]], [[New...
14: ...ed the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] from Congress, the Cross of Kni... - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ... [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a signi...
7: ...oore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ... in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," an...
13: ...lic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
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. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...any]]. Her father, [[Max Noether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]....
8: ...nd her colleague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ...bert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
10: ...se." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]]...
12: ...part of the fundamentals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetri... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... York]], [[United States]] ? died [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]...
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... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...ition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]], [[Surgery|surgeon]] and the only wo...
8: ...in [[Rome, New York]]. The practice did not flourish, as female doctors were generally not trusted or...
10: ...was awarded a commission as a "Contract Acting Assistant Surgeon (civilian)" by the Army of the Cumber...
12: ...nd later as supervisor of a female prison in [[Louisville, Kentucky]] and head of an [[orphanage]] in ...
16: ...ps as a prisoner of war four months in Southern prison while acting as contract surgeon.'' - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...[1890]]-[[1900]] in [[Australia]] and some short visitations to [[Europe]].
5: ...d [[education]] and [[health]] and promoted establishment of [[schools]] and medical centers.
7: ...orks is the popular Christian book, ''Steps to Christ''.
9: ...r the Second [[Advent]], or second coming of [[Christ]].
11: ...he unity among Christians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of the big apo...
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