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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]]
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]] - 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. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
2: ...as an ancient capital of the [[Persian Empire]], situated some 70 km northeast of [[Shiraz, Iran|Shira...
4: ...0 years, the ruins of Persepolis still inspire visitors from far and near.]]
5: ==Site==
6: ...id without mortar, and many of them are still in situ. Especially striking are the huge pillars, of wh...
8: ...rther, with regard to a number of Persian kings, either that their remains were brought "to the Persia... - China (38909 bytes)
5: ...]]ese invasion. Imperial monarchy in China ended with the establishment of the [[Republic of China]] i...
7: ... extent of ''China'' is the subject of ongoing political disputes on [[Chinese reunification]]/[[Taiwa...
14: ...e (or centre) land," referring to the historic position of China at the centre of her known world, sur...
16: ...l political influence expanded territorially, and its culture assimilated alien influences.
18: ...gh acceptance or denial of such claims remains politically controversial, especially where Zhongguo me... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: *[[Evaristo Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...bandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
30: ...rge Abbot|Abbot, George]], (1603-1648), English writer - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
1: [[Image:DiderotVanLoo.jpg|thumb|right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
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5: ... as the author of the essay ''Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown'', upon which many an artic...
7: ... had affairs with the writer Madame Puisieux and with Sophie Voland, to whom he was constant for the r...
10: ... ''Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit'' (1745), with some original notes of his own. He composed a vo... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...[Princess]] of Teck in the Kingdom of [[W?berg]] with the style [[HSH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To h...
5: ...itish Royal Family]], as the model of regal formality and propriety, especially during State occasions...
9: ...s]], the once powerful ruling family of Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Roy...
11: ...taly]], for a time. There Princess May enjoyed visiting the [[art gallery|art galleries]], [[church]]e...
13: ...f Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embas... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... and was later deported to [[Russia]], where she witnessed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|...
6: ...ds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: ...lly married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
12: ==New York City==
13: ... Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to h... - 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. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
5: ...d to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...th [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
10: ... to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: ...80]] she married a friend, [[John Cross]], an [[United States|American]] banker, who was 20 years her ... - 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... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...te]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...ed as a governess for several years. Eventually, with the monetary assistance of her elder sister, she...
7: ...8]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioact...
9: ...r was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...e [[Nobel Prize in Physics]], [[1903]]: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have render... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ... moved to [[Chicago]] in [[1927]] where she sang with [[The Johnson Brothers]], one of the earliest pr...
3: ... had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...rn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in [[Germany]] in [[1971]]; when she r... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...1136]] Hildegard was chosen superior of the community, and eventually moved the group to a new [[monas...
8: ...lding them inside. She was finally convinced to write by members of her order after falling physically...
11: ...ng of the religious texts, and commanded her to write down everything she would observe in her visions...
12: ... and suddenly I understood of the meaning of expositions of the books...
13: ...also overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy and hesitated to act. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: ...1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]], [[comedian...
4: ...r and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll...
5: ...e spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. Her grandfather who ...
7: ..."the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ... nickname "Babe" (after [[Babe Ruth]]) after she hit five [[home run]]s in a single [[baseball]] game....
5: ...hampion. After the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
9: ... her career in the mid-1950s. She won the 1947 [[Titleholders Championship]] and the 1948 [[U.S. Women...
11: ...e her final ones in competitive golf. Cancer took its toll and Zaharias died in 1956 while still in th... - Retina (13061 bytes)
3: ...ball of [[vertebrate]]s and some [[cephalopod]]s; it is the part of the eye which converts [[light]] i...
5: ...optic nerve]]. The retina not only detects light, it also plays a significant part in [[visual percept...
7: ...ld]], [[Haldan Keffer Hartline]] and [[Ragnar Granit]] won the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
12: ...om one ora to the other (or macula), the most sensitive area along the horizontal [[meridian]] is abou...
14: ...to hit the photoreceptors (right layer). This elicits chemical transformation mediating a propagation ... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
3: ...ited Kingdom|UK]] and other countries that have British-style brass bands.
7: ...a fourth above the standard Bb. This instrument, with usually just one in a band, adds an extreme high...
9: ...s as it is easier to hold, with its centre of gravity much closer to the player.
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]]
13: ...y cornet traditionalists and it is not clear what its intended role is. - John Adams (18716 bytes)
2: | nationality=american
15: | party=[[United States Federalist Party|Federalist]]
18: ... Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825]]–[[1829]]).
24: ... out, at length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
26: In [[1764]] Adams married Miss [[Abigail Smith]] ([[1744]]–[[1818]]), the daughter of a [... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
2: ... is the meridian at which longitude is 0 degrees. It is sometimes referred to as the Greenwich Meridia...
4: ...r [[1884]]. At the behest of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Chester A. Arthur]], ...
7: # It was desirable to adopt a single world meridian to...
8: ... at the Observatory at Greenwich was to be the "initial meridian".
9: # That all longitudes would be calculated both east and west from t...
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