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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Ameri...
3: ...nd. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out...
5: ...Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472...
9: ...]], the [[Columbian Exchange]] of species (both those harmful to humans, such as [[virus]]es, [[bacter...
11: ...est Indies]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and c... - 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: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
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 - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
5: ...ichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
28: ...Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
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 [[...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...njamin Netanyahu]] is a native-born [[Israeli]] whose family moved to [[Philadelphia]] when he was a t...
14: ...e was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]...
20: ... also began to emerge as a leader. Her kibbutz chose her to represent them at [[Histadrut]], the Gen...
28: ...erican history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the [[United States Declaration of In...
33: ...rowd.jpg|right|thumb|Jewish [[High Holidays]] in Moscow, 1948. Golda Meir in the crowd (est. 50,000) o... - 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 ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ..., [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the mon...
6: ...rg III and his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapp...
8: .... Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...charsky]] and [[Leo Jogiches]]. She studied [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[politics]], [[economics]] a... - 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... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ... a steamship who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, né¥ Charlotte Hennessy, began taking...
18: ...vered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $...
29: ... alternatives, they settle on ''[[Rosita (movie)|Rosita]]'', in a performance that was praised by crit...
30: ...theatres this year, in Chicago and Detroit. The Los Angeles theatre is now known as the [[University ...
31: ...ning $1.4 million. Her performance earned her an Oscar. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
7: ...active]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pi...
23: ... by the myriad of [[physician]]s and makers of [[cosmetic]]s who used [[radioactive]] material without...
25: ...eukemia]], almost certainly due to her massive exposure to radiation in her work. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...a Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...st remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cross]].
12: ...mmunity's need for free education, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools...
14: ... addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and religion. Afterward, she was appointed to...
21: ...ician)|Benjamin Butler]] "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]]. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ..., was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
4: ...nt as the Superintendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ... and chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ...n]], the Army Nurse Corps, and the American Red Cross. Through her efforts, emergency response teams w...
10: ...e memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who lost their lives during World War I. - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...t of metropolitan areas by population|thirteenth most populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo...
11: ...his Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focused over the capital city of Cair...
16: ...astern half is filled with hundreds of ancient [[mosque]]s that act as landmarks.
18: ...ed and government officials live. Bridges also cross the Nile attaching the city to the suburbs of [[...
25: [[Image:mosque2.jpg|thumb|right|[[Al-Azhar University]] in th... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
31: ...and Feudal Law''), in which he argued that the opposition of the colonies to the Stamp Act was a part ...
33: ...of the officer who commanded the detachment, and most of the soldiers; but two soldiers were found gui...
35: ...my]]. His influence in Congress was great, and almost from the beginning he was impatient for a separa...
39: ...n its adoption. Before this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board o...
41: ...John Adams, as depicted on a two-cent American [[postage stamp]].]] - 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: ... who claimed he fathered her child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved...
46: ...ension bills to [[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
7: ...|Fishing Boats in Alexandria's Eastern Harbour, close to Kait Bey Castle]]
19: ...interpreted this as an omen that the city would prosper, particularly in grain. Other authors make the...
23: ...y one possible site, behind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Ni...
29: ... number-theorist [[Euclid]]. From this division arose much of the later turbulence which began to mani...
34: ...is example was followed by [[Marc Antony]], for whose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who pl... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...hat the solar system can not be much older than those rocks. [[Ca-Al-rich inclusions]] - the oldest kn...
9: ...e scientific basis. The naturalist [[Mikhail Lomonosov]], regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n scien...
11: ...ted a small globe that resembled the Earth in composition and then measured its rate of cooling. This ...
13: ... would be. However, there were many naturalists whose studies of [[stratum|strata]], the layering of r...
15: ... at widely differing locations contained similar fossils, then it was very plausible that the layers w...
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