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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]] - 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. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
5: ...ppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
8: ...ar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player - 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
26: ...[[Valdas Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
34: ...ms, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
37: ...drew Adams|Adams, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
7: *[[Ajit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empi...
26: ...tana Agnesi|Agnesi, Maria Gaetana]], (1718-1799), Italian polymath
27: ..., Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - 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
9: ..., ɴienne]], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e...
15: ...[Lucy Aikin|Aikin, Lucy]], (1781-1864), English writer
20: ...Ainger|Ainger, Nicholas Richard]], (born 1949), British Labour MP - Christina of Sweden (9364 bytes)
5: ...er>[[Image:Swedish queen Drottning Kristina portrait by S颡stien Bourdon stor.jpg|center|185px|Christ...
22: ...o later become an icon of the transgendered community. During the [[20th century]], her grave was open...
25: ...for her difficult birth, or just the horror story itself, may have prejudiced Christina against the pr...
27: ...her [[Ren頄escartes|Descartes]], who had been invited from France to tutor her.
29: ..., and therefore there were only females left. Despite of the fact that there were living female lines ... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: '''Gloria Steinem''' (born [[March 25]], [[1934]]) is a [[US]] [[feminism|feminist]] and [[journa...
5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism == - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
5: ...s]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First Worl...
7: ...ed a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated in...
9: ...tions of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', under the pseudonym ...
11: She died in Rungsted, apparently from malnutrition. She had suffered for many years from [[syphi...
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ...llege]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
7: ...lainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: ...o mimic the actual speech of the period, and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America...
11: ...m uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator gut...
13: ...s not deserving of respect. Recently, however, critics have praised her for her artful capture of the... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ... the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in [[1934]] and published two novels, ''[[We The Living]]''... - 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]]. - 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... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...[[1887]] - [[September 17]], [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], re...
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. - 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... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...ssertation was on ''New Types of Irreducibility Criteria''. Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vass...
5: .... She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from t...
7: ...r versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compi...
9: ...ine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on ...
12: ...for a six-month period that turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[19... - 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: ... several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935). - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940...
2: ...urity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]...
6: ...You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Ti...
8: ...band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - 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: ...irst). Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was ...
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... - Ulrike Meinhof (1853 bytes)
3: ...rt]]) was a [[Germany|German]] radical leftist militant who started out as a journalist. She was one o...
5: ...ved in the [[anti-nuclear movement]] and was an editor for the radical left paper ''konkret''. She mar...
7: ...on man and the imperialism of the [[capitalism|capitalist]] system.
9: ...was killed by representatives of the German authorities.
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