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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
    193: | [[1919]] — [[1928]] (Legislative Building)
  2. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole...
    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]]
  3. 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...
  4. 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
    85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist
  5. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    5: ...ichinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
    27: *[[Chingiz Aitmatov|Aitmatov, Chingiz]], (born 1928), [[Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyz]] author
    28: ...Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss
  6. 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...
    22: ...dren: a son, Menachem; and a daughter, Sarah. In 1928, she was elected secretary of the women's labor c...
    28: ...erican history as a schoolgirl and I read about those who signed the [[United States Declaration of In...
  7. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    1: ...|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
    3: ...[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the U...
    5: ...ctive in the formations of numerous institutions most notably the [[United Nations]], [[United Nations...
    9: ... outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
    11: ...Hyde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johann...
  8. The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
    11: ...tish North America Act]], [[1867]], included the possibility of women becoming [[Senate of Canada|sena...
    15: .... Canada (Attorney General)'' <nowiki>[</nowiki>[[1928]]<nowiki>]</nowiki> S.C.R. 276, The Supreme Court...
  9. Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
    3: ...khurst''' ([[July 14]], [[1858]] - [[June 14]], [[1928]]) was one of the founders of the British [[suffr...
    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...
  10. 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...
    15: In 1928, Sanger resigned as the president of the American...
    23: ==Philosophy==
  11. Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
    3: ..., she entered into a conspiracy in [[1118]] to depose her brother [[John II Comnenus|John]] after his ...
    11: ...e Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
  12. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    8: ..., where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was ab...
    10: ... friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]...
    14: ...Distinguished Flying Cross]] from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Ho...
    16: ... California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark...
    18: ...helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hoped the resulting publicity wo...
  13. 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: ... [[1902]] Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in cli...
    14: ...s death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her frie...
  14. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    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 ...
    22: In [[2002]], ''[[The Hours]]'', a film loosely based on Woolf's life and her novel ''[[Mrs. D...
  15. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: ...bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics in [[1928]] and pursued her graduate education at [[Yale Un...
    9: ... to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
    14: ...mentation of [[standards]] testing of computers, most significantly for [[programming languages]], par...
    18: ...nsultant to [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. H...
    38: ...nearly a thousand feet long, representing a [[microsecond]].
  16. Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
    7: ...rch she conducted as a graduate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrot...
    13: ...instructive to know that standards differ in the most unexpected ways.
    22: ...k upset many Westerners when it first appeared in 1928. Many American readers felt shocked by her observ...
    28: After an initial flurry of discussion, most anthropologists concluded that the absolute trut...
    33: ...ferent from say, Mt. Hagen. They were closer to those described by Mead.
  17. Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
    6: ...at [[Columbia Presbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1...
    12: ...Maxwell Hall ([[1928]]-[[1984]]) at Presbyterian Hospital was named for her.
  18. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
    3: ...[1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] d...
    9: ... The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition ...
    17: ...he was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Mona...
    19: ...was the star of a retrospective show in Paris, ''Jos鰨ine'', celebrating her fifty years in the theat...
  19. 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 &mdash; a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
    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...
    24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ...
  20. Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
    4: ...Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], [[New York]]. In [[1928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[193...
    6: ...era. She used this camera to make her first and most well-known [[film]], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon...
    14: ...ing [[seance|s顮ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]. Deren is a...

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