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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]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ... ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and ...
7: ...h itself as a cultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically signif...
14: ...this period of the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: s&...
15: .... Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...stors of modern [[Chinese character]]s, but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records... - 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. - 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: ...quired by-election. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman electe...
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". - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
5: ...[[Julius Martov]] and the [[Bolshevik]]s under [[Vladimir Lenin]] in [[1903]], Kollontai did not side ...
7: ... place by the Revolution. She was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was ...
9: [[Image:AlexandraKollantaiLarge.jpeg|200px|left]]
13: ...ecoming the world's first female Ambassador. She later served as Ambassador to [[Mexico]] and [[Swede... - 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: ... Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Mini... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]]. - 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 ... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [...
4: ...tained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954...
7: .... In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') rea...
9: ...ic policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...orn again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]]. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psych...
5: ... scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
8: ...ical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a translation of Feuerbach's ''Essence of Christianity'', a...
10: ...'. The collected "Scenes" were well received and launched Evans on a novelistic career. Evans' cohab...
21: ...ll on the Floss]]'' and the frequently-read ''[[Silas Marner]]'', Eliot presented the cases of social ... - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ..., Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that ...
8: ...star]]. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was empl...
10: ...veloped a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]]...
14: ...o land in a pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Disti...
16: ..." financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - 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. - 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== - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
11: ...ns of Culture'' ([[1934]]) expresses [[cultural relativism]] in describing behaviors said to appear in...
15: ...o were recruited by the U.S. Government for war-related research and consultation after U.S. entry int...
20: ... in society of the [[Emperor of Japan]], and formulating the recommendation to President [[Franklin D....
24: ...tly racist", it is still generally regarded as a classic whose value continues even despite the post-w... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...istinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
10: ...se." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]]...
12: ...|symmetries]] by physicists, into [[conservation laws]]. The results of Noether's theorem are part o...
14: ...positions for such rings (a result known as the [[Lasker-Noether theorem]]). Rings satisfying the asc...
20: ...ics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland, "''[http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~histor... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of t...
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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. - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...[[November]], [[1832]] – [[February 21]], [[1919]]) was a versatile woman — a [[Feminism|fem...
10: ...tant Surgeon (civilian)" by the Army of the Cumberland in September, [[1863]], becoming the first ever...
12: ... on to serve during the [[Battle of Atlanta]] and later as supervisor of a female prison in [[Louisvil...
18: ... a brevet or honorary rank cannot, under existing laws, be conferred upon her; and whereas in the opin... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
5: ...er in the history of literature and the most translated American author of either gender. Her writings...
7: ... available in English. Among her works is the popular Christian book, ''Steps to Christ''.
11: ...e from Satan and one of the big apostasies of the last days.
13: ...nt Helena, California]], is a [[National Historic Landmark]].
23: ...len would be taken into vision. The visions would last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours.
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