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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]] - 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
3: ...a, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
4: ...Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman - 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: 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}}
7: *[[Mohamed Farrah Aidid|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
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 - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
1: ...ucceeded her father to the throne of Sweden upon his death at the [[Battle of L?(1632)|Battle of L?] (...
4: <caption><font size="+1">'''Kristina'''</font></caption>
5: ...ait by S颡stien Bourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christina of Sweden, depicted by S颡stien Bourdon]]
10: ...om is the prop of the realm''") <!-- Official English version from www.royalcourt.se -->
22: ...amined. While the grave was open, a team of scientists examined her bones in an attempt to determine i... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ...men's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
5: ...io]]. Her father was an antiques salesman. With his family in tow, he traveled in a trailer all aroun...
9: ...orters. After two years she landed a job as an assistant editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelan...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...her notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant la... - 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]...
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.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...ics|folklorist]] and author. Her best-known work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''....
9: Dialogue in Hurston's work is roughly transcribed so as to mimic the actual spe...
11: ... too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo'...
13: ...g of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the actual langua...
15: ...[[Langston Hughes]], were aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did no... - 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. - 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... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
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.
20: ...Japanese as their liberators from Western colonialism, nor accepting their supposedly obviously just p... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ... the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ... sister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where s...
7: ...r 26]]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...rating the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radi...
11: ...heir joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She wa... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...rst woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her dissertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Cri...
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... - 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: ... several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
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... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...oted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singin...
4: ...ort News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her ...
6: ...t was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: ...e]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...rcer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Rid... - 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... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...anguage|German]]: ''Rote Armee Fraktion''), which is also known as the ''Baader-Meinhof gang''.
5: ...e married [[Klaus Rainer R?], a [[communism|communist]], in [[1961]] and had twin girls, Bettina and R...
7: ...an and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: ...ile on a trial that would have given her life imprisonment, she was found dead in her cell on [[May 9]...
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