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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
161: | [[1895]] — [[1904]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings) - 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... - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...m]] ([[1st century BC|100 BC]]) and the forced imposition of a common system of writing by the Qin emp...
7: ...unded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
24: ...ynasty|Xia]] and the [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] can possibly refer to political entities that existed at ...
28: ... as [[Confucianism]], [[Taoism]], [[Legalism (philosophy)|Legalism]] and [[Mohism]] were founded. Afte...
30: ...since the Spring and Autumn Period and was very loosely a primitive prototype of the modern system of ... - 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... - 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...
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]...
31: ..., France awarded her the [[Legion of Honor]] in [[1904]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
15: ...[Charles 'Buddy' Rogers|Charles 'Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Bo...
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. - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
5: ...of Orleans]] and attacked the ''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' written by [[Jean de Meung]].
9: ...y. After the king's death in [[1380]] her father lost his appointment, and died soon after; and when C...
11: ...mposed some fifteen important works, chiefly in prose, besides minor pieces.
13: ...0) being received by [[Philip of Burgundy]], at whose desire Christine wrote ''Le Lure des faitz ci bo...
15: ...ells her own history, by way of defence against those who objected to her pretensions as a moralist. [... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...y really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ...
8: ...fessor of [[art history]] at the [[University of Moscow]], who was later to found the Alexander III Mu...
10: ...a's children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured An...
12: ...e of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausa...
14: ...s death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her frie... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ll-known [[editor]] and [[literary critic]]) in [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], ...
9: ...ists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artist...
11: ...emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. ...
13: ...maginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.
15: ...best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I ... - 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]]. - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...c painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
8: ...chre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples ...
34: ...rking characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying tim...
72: *[[Postmodern art|Postmodernism]]
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...a very rare [[woodwind]] instrument invented in [[1904]] by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel GmbH in [[Wiesbad...
3: ...olo heckelphone in Eb be built for use in his composition [[Eine Alpensinfonie]]. Named the terz-hecke...
11: ... undoubtedly be a great asset to contemporary composers, providing an alternative to the less-than-sat... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...ee world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
14: .... Occasionally, constitutional amendments are proposed to remove or amend this requirement, but none h...
21: ... majority, the President and Vice President are chosen by the [[United States House of Representatives...
25: ...(United States)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to ...
29: ...[[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is tradit... - 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... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
2: ...lite orthographic.jpg|thumb|250px|A satellite composite image of Antarctica]]
4: ...located near the Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ...ever, contains a southern continent that bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See als...
24: ...ontinent west of the Weddell Sea and east of the Ross Sea is called [[Western Antarctica]] and the rem...
30: Several nations, particularly those close to the continent, made territorial claims in the... - Samoa (9435 bytes)
57: ... became territories of the [[United States]] in [[1904]] and today are known as [[American Samoa]]. The ...
66: ...ent Party, led by Le Mamea Ropati, is the main opposition. Other political parties are the Samoan Prog...
70: ... state. [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]] has held this post alone since the death of his colleague in [[1963...
72: ... The prime minister's choices for the 12 cabinet positions are appointed by the chief of state, subjec... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...colony]] of the [[Belgian Congo]], the country's post-independence name was changed in 1971, from Cong...
21: leader_names = [[Joseph Kabila]] |
61: ...04 report on the Congo condemned the practice. [[Joseph Conrad]]'s novella ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' a...
67: ...ducated in mission schools and later worked as a postal clerk. He became a member of the permanent com...
69: ====Post-independence wars (1960–1965)==== - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
7: ... the family of Calvert's mother, and features a cross bottony. George Calvert adopted a coat of arms ...
11: ...remained with the Union and so they adopted the Crossland banner, which had the benefit of being red a...
13: ...04). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cross bottony the official ornament for a flagstaff ca...
20: ...ed field of red and white, charged with a Greek cross, its arms terminating in trefoils, with the colo...
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