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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...[[Spain]]. He believed that the [[earth]] was a relatively small [[sphere]], and argued that a ship co...
2: ...x|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...r whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or getting stuck i...
5: ...t voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the gen...
7: ...ay" ([[12 October]], the anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
9: ...misepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...mmed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
9: ...1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
10: *[[Clay Aiken|Aiken, Clay]], (1978-), singer
13: ... 1697), hanged for blasphemy, near Edinburgh, Scotland.
19: ...959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...loguist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastema...
6: ...band, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd...
8: On the death of her father-in-law, her husband inherited the title ''Viscount Asto...
10: ... ''The Observer'' newspaper, would never forgive Claud Cockburn and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for s...
12: ...]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ative-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a teenager; he moved back to...
12: ...she met Morris Myerson, a sign painter, who would later become her husband.
16: ... [[1917]] and began planning to emigrate to the [[Land of Israel]], then [[British Mandate of Palestin...
20: ...them at [[Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz li...
22: ...In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor council of Histadrut. This required her to mov... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
5: ...er reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this ...
9: ...rse, matter and the history of mankind through [[clairvoyance]]. The two became embroiled over Leadbea...
11: ...aders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Budd...
13: ...eosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...ed by the remnants of the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called th...
5: ===Poland===
6: ...lin]] in the then Russian-controlled [[Congress Poland]]. Sources differ on the year of her birth - sh...
10: ...]] with flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she atte...
12: In [[1890]], [[Bismarck]]'s laws against [[social democracy]] were annulled and ... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...paign was interrupted by her husband's death in [[1898]]. In [[1903]] she founded the better-known [[Wo...
7: ...ame privations as many of the imprisoned working-class suffragettes; however, she did experience force... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...rly field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie ...
5: ...marked by the death of her sister and, four years later, her mother. She was notable for her diligent ...
7: ...ed from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of s...
9: ...ing the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radium ...
13: ...ie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scien... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...JPG|275px|right|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red C...
2: ...''Clarissa Harlowe Barton''' (better known as '''Clara Barton''') ([[December 25]], [[1821]] (although...
6: ...school at age 4, she she could already spell 3 syllable words, and surprised her teacher by spelling "...
8: ...his was an early indication of what would become Clara's lifework.
12: Clara became a [[teacher]] at age 15, a post that she... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of t...
3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ntendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ...98]], during the [[Spanish-American War]], Jane Delano became a member of the New York Chapter of the ...
8: ...ourse of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... Cairo is the [[List of metropolitan areas by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] ...
6: ...anet Mars during the foundation of the city. The planet Mars, asssociated with destruction was called ...
11: ... over the capital city of Cairo, Egypt, seen as a large bright area centre left of the image, Credit-E...
12: ... satellite image of Cairo, Egypt, taken on NASA's Landsat 7 satellite.]]
14: Cairo is located on the banks and islands of the [[Nile|Nile River]] in the north of Egy... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...f Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his ...
24: ...eal for the cause of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to wr...
28: ...These qualities were particularly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...olspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Cal...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|Pr...
21: ...<td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr> - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...city of [[Canopus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ...it reduced to little more than a small fishing village.
5: ...the-art [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...cks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for Eg...
21: ...n, but are thwarted when Alexander descends in a glass box, and armed with exact knowledge of their ap... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ... 4.567 billion years old, giving an age for the solar system and an upper limit for the age of the Ear...
4: ...uther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today continue to defend [[young ...
9: ...w [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basis...
11: Lomonosov's ideas were mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] natura...
13: ...uralists whose studies of [[stratum|strata]], the layering of rock and earth, gave them an appreciatio...
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