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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]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - 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. - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...iewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
6: ...aris]], where in [[1893]] she met and married [[Poland|Polish]] artist Count Casimir Markiewicz. They ...
8: ...Citizen Army]] (ICA), and, though a member of the landed [[gentry]], she devoted herself to the cause ...
10: ...d Dᩬ]] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ed in as [[Irish Minister for Labour|Minister for Labour]] from April 1919 to Jan 1922, in the [[Minis... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...ator [[Spencer Abraham]] (whom [[George W. Bush]] later named [[United States Secretary of Energy|Secr...
5: ...ity]] in [[1972]] and an [[M.S.W.]] ''[[magna cum laude]]'' from Michigan State University in [[1975]]...
9: ...state legislature). No former Michigan state legislator had served in the U.S. Senate since [[1894]], ...
11: ...ts' agenda and priorities. Reid was elected to replace Minority Leader [[Tom Daschle]], who lost a re-...
15: ...ressional Delegations from Michigan|U.S Senator (Class 1) from Michigan]] | years=2001- | after=Incumb... - 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]].
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... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: '''Rosa Louise Parks''' (born [[February 4]], [[1913]] as '''Rosa Louise McCauley''') is a retired [[A...
4: Rosa Parks was born in [[Tuskegee, Alabama]], daughter of James and Loeona McCauley. She...
6: ...nch of the [[NAACP]]. She also attended the [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for worker...
8: ...d convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
10: ...s of public buses stood idle for months until the law legalizing segregation in public buses was lifte... - 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... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...hattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and...
5: ...an developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gaine...
7: ...lroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompanim...
9: ...ver, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued touring and ...
11: ...de" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popular recordings. - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
15: ...n|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
19: ... what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada...
27: ... Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[Echo Park, Los...
29: ...nt. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect, her flamboyance and her unashamed use of low-key sex appe... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
3: ...argarete Gertrude Zelle''' in English), a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[exotic dancer]] who was accused, con...
5: ...day" in [[Malay language|Malay]] and [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]]. She was also a [[courtesan]] ...
7: ...ient to blame all of the military failures of the last three years on her. She was found guilty and [[...
9: ...er killers before the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did she fling a kiss to her kill...
11: ...ars a suspicious resemblance to [[Puccini]]'s popular opera, ''[[Tosca]]''. - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
1: ...0, Image provded by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
2: ...ll as part of the struggle for liberation from [[slavery]] and [[racism]].
5: ...she was born around 1825. Born Araminta Ross, she later took the name Harriet after her mother. Around...
9: ...ed. And she guided hundreds of people trapped in slavery up to the free states, during the Civil War.
13: ...ffectual chicken chaser could not be the cunning slave stealer. - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: ...Convent of the Sacred Heart in [[Roehampton]], England, along with fellow actress-to-be [[Maureen O'Su...
7: ...m ''[[A Yank at Oxford]]'', but told no one until late [[1938]], when filming began. [[Paulette Goddar...
9: ... arranged for a divorce from Holman and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The pair had met in 1935 and ha...
11: ...y Award]] for her portrayal the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
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11: {{Taxobox_end_placement}} - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
7: ... in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations with a [[preside...
14: ...States Secretary of Labor|Secretary of Labor]] [[Elaine Chao]], born in [[Republic of China|Taiwan]]; ...
19: ...resident, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
25: ...ng across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. Much of the modern electoral pro...
35: .... In addition, the president has important [[legislative]] and [[judicial]] powers. - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ates of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
5: ... to the bar in [[1875]] and began his career as a lawyer in [[Columbia City, Indiana]].
7: ...f his progressive platform through the state legislature, nor in raising a convention to rewrite the s...
11: ...[1912]] Democratic convention in [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]], Marshall's name was put in as Indi...
13: ... meetings his ideas were rarely considered. In [[1913]] Wilson took the then unheard of step of meeting... - 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]]
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