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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
37: | [[1933]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] - 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}}
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
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 - 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...
16: ...ing biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, disagrees with Cook's assessment that Mrs. Roosevelt ... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...esant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...heosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
4: ...men's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific wr...
5: ...Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
9: .... He had to leave the Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into t... - 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. - 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. - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...ent Millay, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1933]]'''Edna St. Vincent Millay''' ([[February 22]], ...
7: ...ld widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly supported her career and too...
9: ...cracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism." - 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. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...dash;[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
3: ...rder of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...[[1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallography and in [[197...
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structura... - 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: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: ...part of the fundamentals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetri... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: ...f [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and... - 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: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ...]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much t... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...f the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]],...
9: ... and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordi...
11: ...studio, dropped by for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, prefe...
13: ...ling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi along [[United States Highway 61]]. She wa...
17: ...ance....She died some eight or ten hours after admission to the hospital. We gave her every medical at... - 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... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
5: ...odels that allowed her to mature into a nonconformist. She was cared for by servants who believed in t...
7: ...ng (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities...
9: ...ne new feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Thou...
11: ...rnate spelling: "Lamastery") where her work ''[[Isis Unveiled]]'' was created.
13: ... [[1875]] in New York City. She maintained that this marriage was not consummated either. She separate... - 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... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: '''Elise Rivet''' born [[January 19]], [[1890]], in [[Dra...
3: ...ore weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR).
5: ...hamber including a weakened and starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks befor...
7: ...[M餡ille des Justes]] and in 1999 the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...status, she became the first in a number of long distance records. Most of these record flights occur...
7: ...over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of 6,450 km).
9: ...plane was unable to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no e...
11: ...pport staff and engineers for these regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Gro...
13: ...emale regiments and participated in 4,419 combat missions (125 air battles and 38 kills) under Tamara ...
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