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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta...
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
11: ...obox_species_entry | taxon = '''''C. × paradisi'''''}}
13: ...= lightgreen | binomial_name =Citrus × paradisi | author = Macfad.}} - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
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 == - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...(1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
14: ...thur]], (1773-1854), English chemist and mineralogist
15: *[[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ... She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a special election of the ...
15: ...that she would run for reelection. Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkan...
21: ...inted to the [[Federal Employees Compensation Commission]] and to the [[Employees Compensation Appeals...
23: ...lt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
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...
15: ...also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time. - 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: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
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. - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
1: [[Image:morrison_toni.jpg|frame||Toni Morrison]]
2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ...the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but ki...
6: ...or [[Hispanic Literature]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literatur...
8: ...]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
11: ...nevertheless to achieve his values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of...
12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
13: #That the individual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor ...
19: ... name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she... - 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. - 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: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner...
14: ...ed the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (USA)|Distinguished Flying Cross]] from Congress, the Cross of Kni... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...– [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hul...
6: ...rom this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ... received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]]...
12: ...Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[193... - 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. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
6: ...o worked at the White Sox Barber Shop as a manicurist. There she heard tales of the world from pilots ...
8: ...flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ... [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flight schools because she was ...
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]].
18: ... [[1995]], she was honored with her image on a [[List of people on stamps of the United States|postage... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work o...
9: ... code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her...
14: ...1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...d take to make life easier for their users. She visited a large fraction of Digital engineering facil... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ...ere Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ...05]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of English at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[...
15: The asteroid [[2917 Sawyer Hogg]] is named after her. - 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... - 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: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr...
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