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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 explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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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... - 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...
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974)
64: *[[Marcela Acuna|Acuna, Marcela]], (born c. 1979), Argentine world boxing champio... - 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
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - 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. - 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) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: Hurston was born in [[Notasulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She...
7: ...urston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and polit...
9: ... and thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For example...
13: ... praised her for her artful capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
15: ... aligned with Wright's vision of the struggle of Black Americans, and did not sink into obscurity. - 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... - 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. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...rly field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie ...
5: ...marked by the death of her sister and, four years later, her mother. She was notable for her diligent ...
7: ...ed from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of s...
9: ...ing the radioactive components, and eventually isolated initially the chloride salts (refining radium ...
13: ...ie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scien... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[March 23]] [[1882]] – [[April 14]] [[1935]]) was one of the most talented [[mathematician]]...
5: ...istinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
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...
16: She died at Bryn Mawr in 1935. - 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 ... - 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...
9: ... them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], ...
2: ...e and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...e [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ... hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marily... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: ...d to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B...
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... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] ca...
8: ...n]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "At Land" (1944) and "A Study in Choreography for Camera...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily inv...
12: ... 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|vo...
16: In 2001, [[Martina Kudlacek]] released a documentary about Deren, titled '... - 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... - 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. - 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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