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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]]
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (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. - 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... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family...
4: ...ury tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]...
8: ...quired by-election. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman electe...
10: ...eplacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, would neve...
12: ...e and the future invasion. The allied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, they composed a sarcastic so... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
5: ...Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side with either faction. However, she came to dislike aspects...
7: ...omen's lives in the [[Soviet Union]], fighting illiteracy and educating women about the new marriage, ...
11: ...after which Kollontai was more or less totally politically sidelined.
15: ...me, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influence in government policy or operat...
17: ...e of Passion: The Life of Alexandra Kollontai'', with [[Glenda Jackson]] as the voice of Kollontai. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...8]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...ng [[Sinn F驮]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩr...
8: ...ster Rising]] and was sentenced to death by the British government. The sentence was commuted to life ...
10: ...clined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
3: ...opposed to a [[suffragette]], who were usually militantly violent) and an early [[feminist]].
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
7: ...ade a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still ...
9: ...the [[senior wrangler]] in the [[Cambridge University]] mathematics examinations. - 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 ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[Ame...
4: ...graphy]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair with William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a child (Will...
7: ...er and Bible-reading at public schools in the [[United States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[196...
9: ... | First Amendment]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on...
11: ... [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist... - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...1897]] - c.[[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaki...
6: ... spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ...tts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even fea...
10: ...hart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Distinguished Fly... - 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... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
11: ...ors said to appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of t...
15: ... the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research...
18: ...ed with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...[mathematician]]s of the early [[20th century]], with penetrating insights that she used to develop el...
6: any early precocity at mathematics — as a teenager she was mor...
8: ...y built a world-wide reputation, but the [[University of G?ngen]] refused to let her teach, and her co...
9: ...s under his own name. A long controversy ensued, with her opponents asking what the country's soldiers...
10: ...nd joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the [[United States]]. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... York]], [[United States]] ? died [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]...
4: ...as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ... Nurses Association and chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ...rses played vital roles with the United States military.
10: ... her death her remains were brought back to the United States by the Army Quartermaster Corps and re-i... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of war]...
6: ...corsets]], were not healthy and advocated looser fitting clothing.
10: ...[July 21]], [[1861]] and at the Patent Office Hospital in [[Washington, D.C.]] She also worked as an ...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read:
16: ...k and wounded soldiers, both in the field and hospitals, to the detriment of her own health, and has a... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ....JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...e Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ...] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing ...
7: ...d the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
9: ...he most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
1: [[Image:ellenwhite.jpg|right|]]
3: ...890]]-[[1900]] in [[Australia]] and some short visitations to [[Europe]].
5: ...ranslated American author of either gender. Her writings covered topics of [[theology]], [[evangelism]...
7: ...om her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 titles are available in English. Among her works is t...
9: ...rophetess for the end-times, through the Holy Spirit, she sought to draw more and more to studying the...
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