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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under...
14: ...arty|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecut...
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman gove...
23: ...28]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]]...
24: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
5: ...Abaco|Abaco, Evaristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
6: ...nk Abagnale|Abagnale, Frank]], (born 1948), US impostor and cheque fraud
14: *[[Abba Mari|Abba Mari ben Moses ben Joseph]], (circa 14th century), French rabbi
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
14: ...oming King George IV. Though she occupied a high position in the line of succession, Victoria was taug...
20: ...was not clear what his surname was, because like most imperial, royal, princely, and ducal families, h...
29: ...hat he could not govern under the restrictions imposed by the Queen, and consequently resigned his com...
33: ... on the widely circulated [[1841]] [[Penny Red]] postage stamp.]]
39: ...ued to secretly correspond with Lord Melbourne, whose influence, however, faded away as that of Prince... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...nie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...er 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[write...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'...
7: ...she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and p...
9: ... Besant, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
14: ... against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of hi...
16: She met [[Edgar Degas]] in [[1874]], and he invited her to exhibit with the [[impre...
20: ...Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
25: The [[1890s]] were Cassatt's busiest and most creative time. She also became a role model for ...
29: Diagnosed with [[diabetes]], [[rheumatism]], [[neuralgia]... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...f the leading writers of the [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are w...
8: ...emy Bentham]] and was the leading journal for philosophical radicals. In [[1854]], she published a tr...
10: In [[1857]], she published "Amos Barton," the first of the "Scenes of Clerical Lif...
12: ... They honeymooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand C...
15: ...nt pas''... Now in this vast ugliness resides a most powerful beauty which, in a very few minutes ste... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
8: * ''B颩e'' (1874) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wood...
12: * ''Chandos '' (1866)
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...elopment of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and h...
7: ... [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[Californi...
17: ...ance and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French gove...
19: ...] and [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate Ameri... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...ther was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''...
9: ...on the older sister Anna and he very probably proposed to her.
15: ...cs]] given to her by a family friend, she came across [[trigonometry|trigonometric]] concepts unfamili...
17: She died of [[tuberculosis]] in [[Stockholm]] and is interred there in the... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ...ally she studied anatomy privately at the London Hospital, and with some of the professors at [[St And...
7: ...spital for children; but the duties of these two positions she found to be incompatible with her princ...
9: ...(in Hunter Street, WC) having over 200 students, most of them preparing for the medical degree of Lond...
14: ... in London -- this is the modern name of the New hospital mentioned above. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: She was born in Ekaterinoslav (now [[Dnipropetrovsk]]), [[Ukraine]] (then pa...
7: ...a with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of frau...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a la...
15: ...ge]] and others. The Society was a modern day [[Gnostic]] movement of the late [[nineteenth century]] ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]...
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
8: ...n for her wit, although as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was...
22: ... occasional film, as a highly-popular radio show host, and in the new medium of television. Her appear...
71: *1919 [[Footloose]] - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
3: [[Image:Irwin postcard.jpg|thumb|May Irwin]]
4: ...ed in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed...
8: ... to repeat the scene on film. In 1896, the [[Kinetoscope]] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kis...
12: ... more than thirty years she was one of America's most beloved performers. In 1914, she made her second... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
27: ...er" and "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" are among the most famous in American politics. He assumed the pres...
42: ...yler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]).
54: ... or after him. His youngest child, Pearl, died almost exactly 100 years after the death of his eldest ...
58: ...tates Whig Party|Whig Party]] policies and work closely with Whig leaders, particularly [[Henry Clay]]...
69: ...f them will be willing to set an example, in the bosom of this Union, of such frightful disorder, such... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr>
20: ...'' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[...
29: ...ree states, while Fillmore supported slavery in those states in order to appease the South. In his own...
31: ...ublic comment on the merits of the compromise proposals, but a few days before President Taylor's deat...
43: ...that all land gained by the Mexican War must be closed to slavery. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of [[slavery]] into federal terri...
48: ...ing the [[Homestead Act]] (1862). However, he is most famous for his role in ending [[slavery]] in the...
59: ...poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. <!--Vidal _United States_ c1993 p704 quoting ...
61: ...the state of Illinois, and became steadily more prosperous. Lincoln served four successive terms in th...
63: Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with [[Joshua Fry Speed]] from [[1837]] to [[1841]] in Sprin... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Union army|U...
26: ...xecutive branch who were at fault. He is instead mostly criticized for not taking a strong stance agai...
30: ...n]] in [[Brown County, Ohio]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
43: ...sissippi]], in [[1863]] is considered one of the most masterful in military history; it split the Conf...
48: ...rtionately even more and inflicted irreplaceable losses. Grant has been described as a "butcher" for h... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...f the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (w...
34: ...ie County, New York]] in 1870 and, while in that post, carried out at least two hangings of condemned ...
36: ...minded Republicans in the New York legislature. Roosevelt admired Cleveland's stubborn nature.
40: ...r child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved with several men at the time...
46: ...ension bills to [[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured...
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