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  1. 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]]
    37: | [[1933]]
    104: | [[Jefferson City, Missouri|Jefferson City]]
  2. List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
    18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
    20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
    25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
    26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
    34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
  3. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    4: ...chel, Jan Santini]], (circa 1670-1723), Czech architect
    7: ...d|Aidid, Mohammed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
    8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
    9: ..., ɴienne]], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e...
    15: ...[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
  4. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
    3: ...e United States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]...
    5: ...tion]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal D...
    9: ...urvived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR ...
    13: ...ce viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
  5. Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
    2: ...eosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
    4: ...m]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
    5: ...trine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
    9: Together with [[Charles Webster Leadbeater]] she investigated ...
    11: ...lon, and their promotion of Buddhist revival activities on the subcontinent (see also: [[Maha Bodhi So...
  6. 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...
  7. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
    3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
    7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
    9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
    11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
  8. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    4: ...went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaini...
    6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
    8: ...don]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
    10: ...] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphreys]].
    14: In [[1932]], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to he...
  9. Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
    1: ...and Bohemian lifestyle and her many love affairs with both men and women.
    3: ...er her graduation in 1917, she moved to New York City.
    5: ...ularity in America was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Wea...
    7: ...r junior, for whom a number of her sonnets were written.
    9: ...eems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] d...
  10. 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...
  11. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
    1: ...]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [...
    3: ...yrightKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in t...
    5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
    7: ...n [[1965]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchil...
    13: ===Obituary notices===
  12. 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]].
  13. Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
    1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
    3: ...he health of [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after...
  14. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    7: ...r mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
    9: ...ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a responsible father. In the rar...
    14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
    16: ... Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], di...
    18: ... than compensated for this shortcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotiona...
  15. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
    2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 2...
    5: ... probably helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at...
    7: ...[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]]...
    9: ...[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Hende...
  16. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    3: ... States]] during the [[Great Depression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
    5: ...vated the attention of the [[American]] press and its readership during what is sometimes referred to ...
    11: ...hey viewed as certain. She was fond of creative writing and the arts. Her poem "The Story of Bonnie an...
    15: ...Clyde acted without criminal intent. However, despite holding down "square" jobs during the period 192...
    19: ...ght it was anything special. Nobody guessed where it would lead."{{ref|knight}}
  17. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
    5: ...d for by servants who believed in the many superstitions of Old Russia, and apparently encouraged her ...
    7: ...satisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
    9: ...ects out of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in...
    11: ...ural expert, and journalist who covered the [[Spiritualist]] phenomena. Soon they were living together...
    13: ..., she became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the [[United States]].
  18. Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
    9: ...eaking career at the age of 13 in this context, writing letters to the newspaper defending [[evolution...
    13: ...September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
    15: ...er in this work. While so occupied in [[New York City|New York]], she met her second husband, Harold S...
    23: ...ullhorn. On the road between sermons, she would sit in the back seat typing sermons and other religio...
    25: ...filed for separation. His petition for divorce, citing abandonment, was granted in 1921.
  19. Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
    3: ...tually used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for the [[Mouvements Unis de R鳩stance]] (MUR...
    5: ...igious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With the end of the War in sight, the Germans began a...
    7: ...lle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des Sciences de l'Homme]] in Lyon.
  20. Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
    3: ... later became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female...
    5: ...on which placed its aviators among those of celebrity status, she became the first in a number of long...
    9: ...ver to receive it and the only ones to be awarded it before World War II.
    11: ...rs for these regiments. This military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the thre...
    13: '''The 586th Fighter Aviation Regiment:''' This unit was the first to take part in combat ([[April 16]...

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