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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
3: {{Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen}}
4: {{Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = [[Plant]]ae}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]...
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}} - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
23: *[[Ernst Abbe|Abbe, Ernst]], (1840-1905), physicist
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
14: *[[Achillas of Alexandria]], (died 313), Coptic Pope, Patria...
30: *[[Anton Ackermann|Ackermann, Anton]] (1905-1973)
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
3: ...Peterhof]] and [[Tsarskoye Selo]]. The [[Winter Palace]] and the [[Smolny]] Cathedral remain the chief...
9: ..., German and Swedish, and could converse in these languages with more fluency than accuracy. From her ...
11: ...er beloved sister Anne, her only remaining near relation, the princess found herself at the age of eig...
13: ...red to be her lover. The [[Dolgorukov]]s, who supplanted Menshikov and hated the memory of Peter the G...
17: == Palace Revolution of 1741 == - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promotin...
5: ...sident [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive trave...
9: ...rations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jac...
16: ...sexual]]. Historians disagree about the theory [[Blanche Wiesen Cook]], author of one of Mrs. Roosevel... - 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 ... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...as a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[England]].
5: ...rst]], and a sister of [[Sylvia Pankhurst]], in [[1905]], Christabel Pankhurst interrupted a [[The Liber...
7: ...ck riding but was defeated. Leaving her native England, she moved to the [[United States]] where she e...
11: ...Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Santa Monica, Californ... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...on most famous for its militancy which began in [[1905]]. Its members included the notorious [[Annie Ke...
7: ...ame privations as many of the imprisoned working-class suffragettes; however, she did experience force... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: ...ar to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] was executed in [[1921]] for activiti...
13: ... House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), ...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: ... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...th in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She is best known, at least in ...
5: ...ish periodicals in 1905 under the pen name ''Osceola''. Her younger brother [[Thomas Dinesen]] won the...
7: ... continued to operate the plantation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to aba...
15: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
16: ...published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
6: date_of_birth=[[February 2]], [[1905]] |
7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...and her novels ''[[The Fountainhead]]'' and ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction bot...
19: ...o has a quotation from Ayn's cousin in which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name R... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...y|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remembered for her astronom...
7: ...[Ontario]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director ...
9: ...riestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]–[[1988]]), a professor emeritus of Englis... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|...
8: ...ave school and go to work. Her first job was as a lather girl in a barbershop. She then became a clerk...
12: ...at Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was f...
17: ...27]]). The latter two she starred in with the popular leading man [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]...
19: ...lm|talkies]]. Her low, husky voice with [[Swedish language|Swedish]] accent was heard on screen for th... - Heckelphone (1998 bytes)
1: ...n incorporating the regular oboe and the [[cor anglais]].
3: ...t different earlier instrument of the same or similar name (French ''hautbois baryton''). In some case...
5: ...rchestral scene, and is seldom carried on the regular strength of professional orchestras. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
21: | '''Place of birth:'''
22: ...ucky]]<br />(site now in [[LaRue County, Kentucky|LaRue County]])
26: | '''Place of death:''' || [[Washington, D.C.]]
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
31: | '''Profession:''' || [[Lawyer]] - 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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