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  1. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    11: ...Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, ...
    13: ...th]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged her cousin Franklin as a husband, but th...
    37: ...her old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democra...
  2. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    7: ...Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a col...
    11: ...aldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as ...
    19: ...er died in 1966 in [[Tucson, Arizona]] at age 87 only a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Co...
    31: ...d of exhausting her system, with the results not unlike the effects of masturbation and debauchery.
    47: ...om/swtaboo/taboos/ms_apwp.html]. Then considered enlightened in some circles, today such measures are ...
  3. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    8: In [[1923]], she discovered the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spect...
    10: ... Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
  4. Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
    6: ...resbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921.
  5. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    6: ...ebut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one...
    12: ...orter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny Mercer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern a...
    112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon"
    113: *[[Media:April In Paris.ogg|Download sample]] of "April in Paris" by Fitzgerald wit...
  6. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    16: ...gularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
    36: ...e was swindled out of her earnings and died with only $0.70 in the bank and $750 on her person. At th...
  7. Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
    5: ...vis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insinc...
    9: ...ard]] she claimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when s...
    11: ...ward|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawford ever worked togethe...
    17: Davis's only natural-born daughter was by her third husband, ...
  8. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    6: ...y candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where ...
    16: ...e that Marilyn Monroe has. Her [[face]] was certainly her fortune and to this very day - over 40 years...
    44: By [[1958]], Monroe was supporting them. Not only did she pay alimony to Miller's first wife, he r...
    46: ... she was admitted by her then-psychiatrist into [[Manhattan]]'s Payne-Whitney Clinic, reportedly placed in th...
    59: ...roses delivered three times a week to her crypt. Unlike the other men who knew her intimately (or had ...
  9. Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
    7: ...g in [[Woody Allen]]'s ''[[Manhattan (1979 movie)|Manhattan]]'', ''[[The French Lieutenant's Woman]]'', ''[[S...
    9: ...le), ''[[The River Wild]]''— her first and only action film to date—and her noted comic tu...
    13: ...Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaim...
    39: ...979]] - [[BAFTA]] Best Supporting Actress, in ''[[Manhattan]]''
    88: *[[Manhattan (1979 movie)|Manhattan]] (1979)
  10. Locomotive (16705 bytes)
    29: By the end of the [[20th century]], almost the only steam power still in regular use in [[North Amer...
    34: ...to do so. Therefore this type of transmission is only suitable for low-powered [[Switcher|shunting]] l...
    43: ...n from Chicago, Illinois to [[Denver, Colorado]] only cost [[United States dollar|US$]]14.64 (in 1934]...
    60: ... remain dominant in some European countries. The only diesel-electric locomotives of the Deutsche Bund...
    82: ...local law banning diesel-powered locomotives in [[Manhattan]] tunnels. For the same reason [[Amtrak]] operate...
  11. George Washington (29551 bytes)
    21: ...e of the most important figures in U.S. history. Unlike many other [[revolution]]ary leaders, he volun...
    79: ...the Army]] (five star), George Washington is the only President with military service to reenter the m...
    95: ...ng the principle that even a former president is only, after all, a private citizen.
    104: Unlike all the other slaveholding [[Founding Fathers]...
    114: ... outside the [[Federal Hall]] Memorial in lower [[Manhattan]], site of Washington's first inauguration as Pre...
  12. U.S. state (14432 bytes)
    81: ...k|county]] (coterminous with the [[borough]] of [[Manhattan]]) in that city.
    83: * The state of Washington is the only state named after a [[President of the United St...
    87: ...the state (however, such name-sharing occurs commonly with states and provinces in some other countrie...
    97: ...states; [[Maine]] is the only state that borders only one other state. [[Missouri]] and [[Tennessee]] ...
    98: ...New Mexico]], [[Colorado]], and [[Utah]] are the only four states to share a common border, known as t...
  13. Kansas (21369 bytes)
    71: ... District of Kansas|District 4]]). Moore is the only Democrat in the delegation; all others are Repub...
    95: ...d by people with no formal training, and it sits only a block or two from the Garden of Eden.
    159: *[[Manhattan, Kansas|Manhattan]], site of [[Kansas State University]]
    209: ...d largest enrollment, with 23,151 students at its Manhattan and Salina campuses and Veterinary Medical Center...
    234: .../www.kansashistoryonline.org/ksh/ Kansas History Online]
  14. Tennessee (19096 bytes)
    39: ...ge named "Tanasqui" in [[1567]] while travelling inland from [[South Carolina]]. European settlers lat...
    50: ...orders of North Carolina and extending them with only one small deviation to the [[Mississippi River]]...
    52: Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not h...
    58: ... laboratory, one of the principal sites for the [[Manhattan Project]]'s production and isolation of weapons-g...
    77: ...nnessee lies adjacent to 8 other states, matched only by Missouri which also borders 8 states. Tenness...
  15. American Psycho (168 bytes)
    3: ... a novel by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] about a young [[Manhattan]]ite [[serial killer]]. A film adaptation was rel...
  16. List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
    314: *[[List of Manhattan, New York neighborhoods]]
    535: ...f tunnels]]: [[List of tunnels in the Netherlands|NL]], [[Tunnels in New Zealand|NZ]], [[Tunnels in th...
    601: *[[List of NLP topics]]
    631: **[[List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names]]
    678: **[[List of words commonly mispronounced]]
  17. Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
    3: ...evices. "The Wizard of [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]]" was one of the first inventors to apply ...
    5: ... a conglomerate of nine major film studios (commonly known as the Edison Trust).
    24: ...the track during replay so that one could listen only once. A redesigned model using wax cylinders was...
    26: ===Menlo Park===
    27: ...jor innovation was the [[Menlo Park, New Jersey|Menlo Park]] research lab, which was built in [[New Je...
  18. World War II (58065 bytes)
    4: ...ar I|two world wars]] are one conflict separated only by a "ceasefire".
    8: ...c weapon]]s, [[jet aircraft]], and [[RADAR]] are only a few of many [[Technology during World War II|w...
    20: ...ing and occupying parts or the whole of Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania.
    24: ...iendly," despite the fact that neither country openly proclaimed any alliances. Such situations allowe...
    31: ...g war two days later on [[3 September]].{{fn|1}} Only partly mobilized, Poland fared poorly against th...
  19. History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
    5: ...a detachment of the British regular Army marched inland from [[Boston, Massachusetts]], in search of a...
    31: ...ny, New York|Albany]]. Burgoyne's army advanced only a few miles during the whole Summer of 1777, and...
    41: ...s encouraging commerce and economic development, only aggravated a gloomy outlook.
    58: ...spotic and corrupt as [[Great Britain]] had been only decades earlier. The most notable Antifederalist...
    68: ...naugurated in April 1789 at Federal Hall in lower Manhattan.
  20. January 1 (18244 bytes)
    30: ...of Greater New York. The four initial boroughs, [[Manhattan]], [[Brooklyn]], [[Queens]], and [[The Bronx]], a...
    86: ...Sweden]] and the republics of [[Austria]] and [[Finland]] are admitted into the [[European Union]].
    219: * [http://www.tnl.net/when/1/1 Today in History: January 1]

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