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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    7: | [[Alabama]]
    8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
    11: | [[Alaska]]
    12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
    35: | [[Delaware]]
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    1: <!-- language links at bottom -->
    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...
  3. 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
    46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
    61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
  4. 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.
    18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
  5. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    7: ...their children and home and her husband practiced law and started a political career.
    11: ... [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
    17: ... ran again for reelection against [[John L. McClellan]] and was victorious after receiving support fro...
    23: ...|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation.
    25: ...[[Falls Church, Virginia]]. She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]].
  6. 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...
    15: ...d a series of interviews with Mrs. Roosevelt in [[1932]]. For the rest of their lives they would be clos...
  7. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    5: ...years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Al...
    7: ...he [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contracept...
    9: ... returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review ...
    11: ...ublished "What Every Girl Should Know," which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman...
    13: ... 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]].
  8. Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
    5: ...and [[Jean Cocteau]], she stayed for a while at [[La Ruche]] with many of the leading members of the a...
    7: ... the ''[[Salon d'Automne]]'' in Paris. Back in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Inst...
    13: ...nd later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]].
    15: ... and the publisher for libel over allegations of Black Magic made in her book.
    17: ...'Queen of the Fitzroy''' spent a good part of the last few decades of her life at the bar, trading ane...
  9. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    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...
    22: ...e The Living]]'' ([[1936]]), and ''[[Anthem (novella)|Anthem]]'' ([[1938]]).
  10. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    2: ...ctober 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n o...
    4: ...[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
    6: ... [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated wi...
    12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]]
  11. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
    3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
    7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
    13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
    17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work...
  12. 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.
  13. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    4: ...lot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
    8: ...lane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) n...
    10: ...ying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphrey...
    12: ...], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Pe...
    14: In [[1932]], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mol...
  14. Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
    4: ...and was in training to become a medical doctor in 1932 when she left that field to pursue a career as a ...
    8: ... only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman awarded ...
    10: ... He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be used as point-attack wea...
    12: ... She is said to have overheard Hitler laying out plans for Nazi commanders to join together in mass su...
    16: ...n gliders. In 1952 '''Hanna Reitsch''' won third place in the world gliding championship in Spain (and...
  15. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    3: ...ly 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the gre...
    7: ...er to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out...
    9: ...oliday: Wishing on the Moon'', ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a...
    14: ...er first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
    16: ... Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manh...
  16. Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
    1: ...y, especially in the United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come back to South Africa in [...
    3: ...keba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music Prize]] with [[Sofia Gubaidulina]].
  17. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    15: ... poor farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when police confronted him ...
    19: ...g the evening of [[January 5]] [[1930]] in the Dallas neighborhood of [[Oak Cliff, Texas|Oak Cliff]]. ...
    23: ...yde. A prisoner serving a life sentence took the blame willingly for this killing. Fellow inmate [[Ral...
    25: ...e returned to Texas within weeks, embroiled in a plan to raid Eastham prison and free associate [[Raym...
    27: ...]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road with Clyde.
  18. Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
    2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
    7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
    13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
    15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh...
    17: Later she became interested in the [[Nuba]] tribe in...
  19. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
    2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
    4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
    6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
    10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
  20. Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
    3: ...lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal Dramatic Theater...
    5: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]''. Two years later she received her first Academy Award nominatio...
    7: ...rgman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
    9: ... Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]'' ...
    11: ...actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them."

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