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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]] - 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)
1: {{List of people A}}
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: 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
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
11: ...ecial election of the people on [[January 12]], [[1932]] becoming the first woman elected to the [[Unite...
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.
25: ...50]] and died in [[Falls Church, Virginia]]. She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkan... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civi...
9: ...; President Theodore Roosevelt took the place of his late brother in giving Eleanor's hand to her husb...
11: ...s descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ... good graces, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] wh...
15: ...d a series of interviews with Mrs. Roosevelt in [[1932]]. For the rest of their lives they would be clos... - 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]]." - 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... - 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... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] wri...
4: ... she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartr...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - 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: ...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... - 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.
12: ...Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[193...
14: ...], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after t... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
1: [[image:Hanna_Reistch.jpg|thumb|right|288px|Hanna Reitsch in the Fa ...
4: ...ogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
6: ...elis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, always looking...
8: ...ger [[bomber]]s on which she tested various mechanisms for cutting [[barrage balloon]] cables. Eventua...
12: ...so hoped to fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there w... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...9]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]]...
7: ...an working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother...
9: ...ing to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... the first to hear and publicise her, although it is generally agreed that Hammond was the first). Ham...
16: ...]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much t... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ... system. Her [[1969]] marriage to black [[separatist]] [[Stokely Carmichael]] caused further controve...
3: ...'[[Graceland]]'' tour. Shortly thereafter she published her autobiography ''Makeba: My Story''. In [[2...
5: ... 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]). - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...[[American]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to as the [[public enemy era]]...
9: ...hrough. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, they never divorced, and Bo...
11: ...sonal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ...goods (turkeys). In both of these instances there is the remote possibility that Clyde acted without c...
19: ...young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes over to her brother's house and... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
5: ...he director of that film, and demanded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefenstahl went on ...
7: ... Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]. It is not documented that she would ever have a relatio...
9: ...ympics]] but decided to film the event instead. This material became ''[[Olympia_(film)|Olympia]]'', a...
13: ...es—a position which many of her critics dismiss as ridiculous.
15: ... to photograph the rock star [[Mick Jagger]] and his wife [[Bianca Jagger]] as a couple holding each o... - 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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...ery young, she lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal D...
7: ...and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...made her final performance on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
11: ...[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, whi...
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