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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]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...]]. Also, see [[International Space Station]] for ISS explorers, and for the [[Ford Motor Company|Ford...
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] n...
11: ...cisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] missionary and explorer in [[Ethiopia]])
21: ...eorge Back]], (1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Ca...
23: ... de Balboa]], (c. [[1475]]-[[1519]]), [[Spain|Spanish]], first to sight the [[Pacific Ocean]], founded... - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835) - 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 - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[March 23]] [[1882]] – [[April 14]] [[1935]]) was one of the most talented [[mathematician]]...
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: ...rivatdozent]].'' After all, the university senate is not a bathhouse." She was finally admitted to the... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
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. - 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: ... 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... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...d to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B...
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... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...] [[avant-garde]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...y [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...fternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film...
8: ...on]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Anais Nin]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "...
10: ...t, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accomp... - 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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