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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]]
116: | [[Carson City, Nevada|Carson City]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...sion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
21: ...tish Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]] [[Arctic]]
30: ...7]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]] [[Berber]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central...
35: *[[Vitus Bering]]
36: *[[Vittorio Bottego]] (1860,1897), Italian explorer of the [[Giuba]] region in north-ea... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as...
7: ...times, the [[Huang He]] valley began to establish itself as a cultural center, where the first village...
11: ...ological site]]s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilizat...
14: ...asty|Shang]] and [[Zhou Dynasty|Zhou]] dynasties. It is during this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ...
18: ...Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which...
6: ... on her CV for Z?University, but her [[1887]] [[Abitur]] certificate says she was 17, in which case sh...
8: ...put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined o...
10: ...]]. She studied [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[politics]], [[economics]] and [[mathematics]] simultane...
12: ... able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...y Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ... she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], an...
6: Despite her family's objections to her becoming a profes...
8: ... commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pion...
5: ...oduction of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and...
7: ...]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. D...
9: ...ies of disappointing roles and the public's inability to accept Pickford in roles that reflected her o...
11: ...ame secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbank... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...adies how to manage their family's estates and military affairs in their husband's absence and is ther...
4:
5: ...]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...n her. This determined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: ...as love poems were the fashion she continued to write other--''lais'', ''virelais'', ''rondeaux'' and ... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...1]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...e of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotions; sh...
8: ...magination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of M...
12: ...and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury gro...
7: ...stently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among othe...
9: ...els and essays as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was sel...
11: ...e dark," and her literary achievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...f life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on the themes of flux of time and life, pres... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ... been described as having had an "indomitable spirit" and is best remembered for organizing the [[Amer...
6: ...ung Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were ...
8: As a child, Clara was a shy and retiring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her brother b...
12: ...unity's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools i...
14: ... she was appointed to a job as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Offic... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...r about 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by m...
24: *[[Computer painting]] (Digital)
34: ... such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying time, etc.
48: *[[Spray paint]] ([[Graffiti]])
52: ...c discussions about contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...itched in F, a perfect fourth above the [[oboe]], its compass is from b to g"'#, sounding a perfect fo...
3: ...heckelphone, Strauss ultimately did not score for it and only a single prototype was ever built.
5: ...h not as wide as that of a [[saxophone]]), giving it a characteristically strong and powerful tone.
7: ...e only ever produced in extremely small numbers, with production ceasing altogether in [[1955]] due to...
9: ..., or may be in the hands of private collectors awaiting discovery. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
1: ....jpg|200px|thumb|[[Seal of the President of the United States]]]]
3: ...overnment]] and [[commander-in-chief]] of the [[United States armed forces|armed forces]].
5: Because of the superpower status of the United States, the American President is considered by...
7: ...is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[presidential system]] of government.
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: <tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Clevel...
23: ...e United States|Political party]]:'''</td><td>[[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]]</td></tr>
24: <tr><td>'''[[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]]:'''</td><td>
29: ... [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] political domination between the [[American Civil War]]...
31: ...e when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the nati... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ... the ancient city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...e late [[Ottoman]] period had seen it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
7: ...Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
13: ...ch starts with the founding of the city and ends with the arrival of the Romans (blue).
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrive... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ation of the Ca-Al-rich inclusions and the meteorites. Since the accretion time of the Earth is not e...
6: ... the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
11: ...embled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This led him to estimate that t...
13: ...at the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however long that might be.
15: ...ffering locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers were the same ... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
2: ...te orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
4: ...cated near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ...ra Australis]] ("Southern Land") go back to antiquity, the first commonly accepted sighting of the con...
8: ...erage [[altitude]], and the lowest average [[humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowe...
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level do... - Samoa (9435 bytes)
21: | '''[[Capital]]'''
33: ...04 Est.)<br> - [[Population_density|Density]]
57: ...amoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence.
59: ...ng that the change diminished its own Samoan identity. American Samoans still use the terms Western Sa...
61: == Politics == - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...o-[[Kinshasa]] (after its capital, to distinguish it from the Republic of Congo, or Congo-[[Brazzavill...
5: Infobox; scroll down to edit content
17: capital = [[Kinshasa]] |
19: government_type = transitional |
20: leader_titles = [[List of Presidents of the Democ... - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
7: ...rt adopted a coat of arms that included a shield with alternating quadrants featuring both the colors ...
11: ... banner, which had the benefit of being red and white (which were seen as "secession colors").
13: ...(Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective [[March 9]], 1904). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cros...
19: ...st of 6 vertical bars alternately gold and black with a diagonal band on which the colors are reversed...
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