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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
33: | [[1872]] — [[1879]]
69: | [[1866]] — [[1873]] (east wing), [[1879]] — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — ...
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - 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
38: *[[Jacob Abbott|Abbott, Jacob]], (1803-1879), American writer
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
16: ...Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
87: *[[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - 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... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...itcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite po...
8: ...mber in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do so.
10: ...ement of Hitler and led to much criticism of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely cri...
12: ...lied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, they composed a sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting [[... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...ffragette "martyr", [[Emily Davison]] and the composer, Dame [[Ethel Smyth]]. She was joined in the m...
7: ...n [[1914]]. She died ten years after seeing her most ardently pursued goal come to fruition: the righ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...trol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the pub...
5: ...ried William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, fo...
9: ...on by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned...
23: ==Philosophy==
24: ...h she contrasted with mandatory registration of those with infectious diseases such as [[measles]]). - 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: ...onism|impressionists]] and her work hung in the [[1879]] impressionist show. An active member of the imp...
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... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: Kovalevskaya was born in [[Moscow]]. Her father was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukov...
5: ...other was [[Elizaveta Fyodorovna Schubert]] (1820-1879). She was granddaughter of [[Theodor Schubert]] ...
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... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
7: ...rt of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
10: ...eg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard h...
14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o... - Lillian Russell (2418 bytes)
5: ...61, Helen Louise Leonard would become one of the most famous and beautiful actresses of the late [[19t...
7: In [[1879]], under the new guise of "Lillian Russell", Hele...
11: ...remost singer of operettas in the U.S. Among her most well-known roles were in Gilbert and Sullivan's ... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
7: In [[1879]] three 'ukulele makers arrived from Portugal in ...
13: ...the re-entrant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele.
44: ...these instruments are referred to as Tahitian banjos.
60: ... these tunings, but that the chords will be transposed and inverted. - Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
18: ... [[France]], [[Political philosophy|political philosopher]], [[revolutionary]], [[Agriculture|agricult...
20: ... ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alo...
37: ...s]] from [[1797]] until [[1801]], achieving that position after getting second place in the presidenti...
102: ...d States|Postmaster General]]||align="left"|'''[[Joseph Habersham]]'''||align="left"|1801
123: ...r. In later years he was negligent in dress and loose in bearing. - 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... - Belgium (31774 bytes)
3: Belgium is at a cultural crossroad between [[Germanic language|Germanic]] Europ...
36: |'''[[Gross Domestic Product|GDP]]''' <br> - Total ([...
55: ...|Spanish]], and [[Austria]]n influences. During most of its history, Belgium has been part of the [[L...
57: ...re included today's Belgium. Christian scholars, mostly [[Ireland|Irish]] [[monk]]s, preached Christia...
63: ...ty and a combination of remarkably non-violent opposition and impressive economic development. - Bolivia (30115 bytes)
13: national_motto = ''Morir antes que esclavos vivir''<br>([[English language|English]]: "To die...
14: national_anthem = ''[[Bolivianos, el hado propicio]]'' |
59: ...e [[Moxos]] in the eastern lowlands and the [[Mollos]] north of present-day [[La Paz]] also developed ...
62: ...duced much of the Spanish empire's wealth, and Potos�site of the famed Cerro Rico — "Rich Moun...
67: ... Pacific]] ([[1879]]–[[1883|83]]), when it lost its seacoast, and the adjoining rich [[nitrate]]... - Peru (12264 bytes)
24: ... of Peru|Prime Minister]]''' || [[Carlos Ferrero Costa]]
36: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || "[[Somos libres, se᭯slo siempre]]" "We are free, may we ...
48: ...ar of the Pacific]]. After the war (and with the loss of the province of [[Tarapaca]]), political stab...
53: ... are subdivided into [[province]]s, which are composed of [[district]]s. There are 180 provinces and 1...
57: ...was divided into 24 [[department]]s (''departamentos''), and many people still use this term when refe...
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