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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]] - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
8: ...es of tornadoes cause heavy damage in the South, Alabama being the hardest hit. 324 people are killed ...
9:
12: ... law enforcement officer. She was released a week later because of credit for time served.
13: ...ram, which began with the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on April 12, 1981.
20: - Rush Limbaugh (21665 bytes)
6: ...imbaugh started out in radio as a teenager in the late [[1960s]] in his hometown of [[Cape Girardeau, ...
8: ... made him eligible for the [[draft]], but he was classified 1-Y due to an undisclosed medical problem ...
10: ... as a claim to use a "golden microphone". (This claim is now a reality as Limbaugh does use a golden ...
16: ...] (and his current flagship station, WABC) in the late [[1980s]] and eventually became syndicated on [...
18: ...e program has for over 15 years been the most popular talk radio show in the United States. The show ... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
2: ...een of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
7: ...] of the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland]], she was also the first monarch to use the ti...
9: ...al change in the United Kingdom. Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her succes...
12: ...nly child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 May]] [[1819]].
14: ...[[Greek language|Greek]], [[Latin]], and [[French language|French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[... - Madeleine Albright (7085 bytes)
21: | '''Place of Birth:'''
40: ...e from Columbia University's Department of Public Law and Government.
42: ...om [[1976]] to [[1978]], she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to Senator [[Edmund Muskie]].
44: ...t the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the [[Smithsonian Institution]] following an...
45: role of the press in political changes in [[Poland]] during the early [[1980s]]. - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
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22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
31: ... [[November 4]], [[1993]]. Though she was not popularly elected, she remains [[North America]]'s only ...
33: .... She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a doctorate i...
35: ... political science at the [[University of British Columbia]] and at [[Vancouver Community College]], and ent... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
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18: |'''Place of Birth'''
19: |[[Birmingham, Alabama]]
29: ...mination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ... father and her uncle were the principals of two black high schools in town. Rice's father, John Wesle... - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ... at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
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. - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of desert flowers, which ar...
6: ...6]] started teaching at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: ...ally impressed with O'Keeffe's interpretations of landscapes in the American West.
10: ... O'Keeffe to move to New York City and secured a place for her to live. Over the next few years O'Keef... - 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. - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...er: [[Valentina Tereshkova]] ([[1963]]) and [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [...
5: ...''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[STS-7]]. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in space.
9: ...'Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]]. - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
7: She entered graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz ...
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... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...rearing, personality, and culture. (Source: ''The Columbia Encyclopedia'', Fifth Edition, 1993.)
24: ...ative [[United States]] organization) recently declared ''Coming of Age in Samoa'' the "worst book of ...
26: ...having engaged in casual sex as young women, and claimed that they had lied to Mead.
28: ... Anthropological Association]] passed a motion declaring Freeman's ''Margaret Mead and Samoa'' "poorly...
33: ...ksapmin, West Sepik Province, a more sparsely populated area. Cultural patterns there, were different ... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...anesthesia]] and childbirth. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...gram there. She was then director of nursing at [[Columbia Presbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in ...
8: ...rmy Nurse Corps]] was established and nurses were later given officer rank. She helped design the unif...
13: ...omen buried at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. [[Columbia University]] awarded her an honorary master of ar... - 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... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ... and even [[opera]], The state of [[Michigan]] declared her voice to be a natural wonder. She has won ...
6: ...ck-a-bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody."'' Though Columbia really wanted her as a jazz singer, the results n...
8: ...in said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the h...
10: ...of her most influential full-length releases, the latter a double LP of live gospel music recorded in ...
12: ...awards for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance; she later added three more Grammies in this category in ... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: ...n the history of the genre. She grew up in the "Black Pearl" section of the [[Carrollton, Louisiana|C...
3: ...s who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility.
5: ...]]. The late [[1960s]] saw a downturn in her popular success. She ended her career with a concert in... - 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. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...h]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] and later a [[pop icon]].
6: ...Monroe Baker, worked as a film-cutter. However in later years, more and more have gone for the theory ...
8: ...ting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent.
10: ...alk, California|Norwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a mental hospital near...
12: ... of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guardian. After Grace marr...
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