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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: Ad (7741 bytes)
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...mmed Farah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
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. - 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]]
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
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... - 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... - 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... - 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...
16: ...les]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Co... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...[[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Pulit...
3: ...912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her graduation ...
5: ...reenwich Village, during which time her great popularity in America was attained. She won the [[Pulitz...
7: ... also married 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly suppo...
9: ...erle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democra... - 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== - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
3: ...r of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
11: ...nour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...istinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
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... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933. - 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: ...-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... - 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. - 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: ... [[Kaufman, Texas]] jail, Bonnie returned to [[Dallas]] in June of 1932, and was soon back on the road... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
1: [[Image:Hpb.jpg|thumb|right|Helena Blavatsky]]
2: ...ter known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: She was born in Ekaterinoslav (now [[Dnipropetrovsk]]), [[Ukraine]] (then part...
7: ...b), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities.
9: ...terests were more in the area of [[theory]] and [[laws]] of how they work rather than performing them ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ... [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disease on August...
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...
31: ...is faith, incorporating demonstrations of [[glossolalia|speaking-in-tongues]] and [[faith healing]] in...
33: ... of worship. These traits also increased her popularity. - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...sters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie...
5: ... her religious garments, she was forced into hard labor. With the end of the War in sight, the Germans... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ...erred to as the "Russian [[Amelia Earhart]]". She later became one of over 800,000 women in the milita...
5: ...nificantly in the eyes of the Soviet Union which placed its aviators among those of celebrity status, ...
7: ...record for a straight-line distance flight. The plan was to fly from [[Moscow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in...
9: ...scue crew had found the aircraft 8 days after the landing, and so were waiting when she found her way ...
15: ...was the [[Polikarpov Po-2]], a very outdated [[biplane]]. The [[Germany|Germans]] were the ones howev...
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