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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
109: | [[1896]] — [[1902]], [[1909]] — [[1912]] (wi... - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
9: ...'s capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
13: ...Rio de Janeiro is now was reached by Portuguese explorers in an expedition led by Italian [[Amerigo Ve...
17: ...an strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Morro do Castelo'' (Ca...
21: ...en who arrived suddenly, many inhabitants were simply evicted from their homes.
25: ...hy]] and imposed a republic in [[1889]]. However, plans for moving the nation's seat city to the terri... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...amisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
15: *[[Ivar Aasen|Aasen, Ivar]], (1813-1896), linguist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: ... Patriarch]], (died 489), patriarch of Constantinople
8: *[[Marcel Achard|Achard, Marcel]], (1899-1974), playwrighter and scriptwriter
47: *[[Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Wilhelm]], (1896-1962), mathematician - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
12: ...f Leiningen]]. Victoria, the only child of the couple, was born in Kensington Palace, London on [[24 M...
18: ...tch, but his objections failed to dissuade the couple. Many scholars have suggested that Prince Albert...
20: ...merged the Royal House name and family surname, replacing both with one deliberately English sounding ...
29: ...wives of Whigs, but Sir Robert Peel expected to replace them with wives of Tories. Victoria strongly o...
37: ... the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presumptive, the King... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
11: ... a [[Parliament]]ary [[Annuity]] of [[UKP|?]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge...
19: ...an arranged marriage, May and George soon were deeply in love. George never took a mistress and wrote ...
21: ...], [[St. James's Palace]], in [[London]]. The couple had six children in total, listed below.
27: ...2]]<td> married [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] – [[24 April]] [[1986]]); no issue.
38: ...ty, but was a favourite of George, who liked a simple life. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
8: ... paid only for her basic needs but not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the a...
21: ...ed, and she moved away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no ...
69: ...tt Mary Maternal Kiss 1896.jpg|''Maternal Kiss'' (1896)
70: ... Nurse and Child 1896-97.jpg|''Nurse and Child'' (1896-97)
77: ...y Children Playing with a Cat 1908.jpg|''Children Playing with a Cat'' (1908) - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
7: Hurston's work slid into obscurity for decades, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and poli...
9: ...Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston...
15: ...ritings, Hurston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular...
22: ... from the wider [[American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)|civil rights movement]] struggle was demons...
36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]]) - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
26: Her marriage to stockbroker Paul Mousis in [[1896]] failed, when in [[1909]] the then 44-year old V... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
7: ...d [[Parthenope]] for the old city that is now [[Naples]]). A brilliant and strong-willed woman, Floren...
23: ...mily objections concerning the risks and social implications of such activity, and the [[Roman Cathol...
31: ...cial indifference. [[Medicine]]s were in short supply, [[hygiene]] was being neglected, and mass [[inf...
35: ...ted to have escaped serious injury when it was toppled in an accident. Following this episode she used...
47: ...statistical reports and was instrumental in the implementation of its recommendations. - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...[[September 13]], [[1819]] – [[May 20]], [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Robert Schumann]], was one...
7: ... [[Johannes Brahms]], at age twenty, met the couple in [[1853]] and his friendship with Clara lasted...
11: ...oachim, as one of the first executants who really played like composers. Besides being remembered for...
14: ... Germany who declared them a "marvelous, heavenly pleasure." - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
8: ...the [[Kinetoscope]] production, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the first screen kiss in cine...
12: ...ature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black is Back]]''. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</t...
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Richmond, Virginia]]</t...
29: ...ng President]], and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until the [[196...
37: ...Tyler ([[April 17]], [[1819]] - [[January 26]], [[1896]]).
65: ...power of Government against any portion of the people; but however painful the duty I have to assure y... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
18: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Ca...
20: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Princeton, New Jersey|P...
46: ...lf admitted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment was blocking others' bad ideas. He vigoro...
56: ...ess failures, farm mortgage foreclosures, and unemployment. He obtained repeal of the mildly inflation...
62: ...d States]]). The lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, P... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age of the [[solar ...
4: ...ntists such as [[Martin Luther]] and [[Johannes Kepler]] believed in a similar date, and some today co...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched ...
9: ...ew [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scientific basi...
13: ... of the age of the Earth to creation tales, or simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always w... - Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
63: ... missionaries. At the same time, the [[Oromo]] people began to migrate north into Ethiopian territorit...
67: ...[provisional treaty]] of peace on [[October 26]], 1896.
69: ...tually defeated in [[1991]] by the [[Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF), a co...
77: ...suring a landslide victory for the [[Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front]] (EPRDF). Inte...
83: ...nt began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east, propos... - Madagascar (29377 bytes)
2: .... It is the home of five percent of the world's [[plant]] and [[animal]] species, 80 percent of them u...
57: ...r was established by military force in [[1895]]-[[1896|96]], and the Merina monarchy was abolished.
68: ...y and "Malgasization" of the education system crippled the economy, leaving traces even today of a hig...
70: ...rong in [[Antananarivo]] and the surrounding high plateau.
72: ...ations and crippling general strikes, Ratsiraka replaced his prime minister in [[August]] [[1991]] but... - Zimbabwe (16088 bytes)
46: [[Iron Age]] [[Bantu]]-speaking peoples began migrating into the area about 2,000 years...
52: ...lonialist encroachment on their native lands in [[1896]]-[[1897]].
54: ...inority government in Southern Rhodesia (known simply Rhodesia from [[1964]]) demanded independence, b...
60: ...Zambia in [[1975]], and the [[Zimbabwe African People's Union]] (ZAPU), led by [[Joshua Nkomo]]. With ...
66: ...nt with Joshua Nkomo, head of Zimbabwe African People's Union. In the free elections of [[February]] [... - Flag of New Jersey (1068 bytes)
2: ...e New Jersey General Assembly for [[March 11]], [[1896]], the buff color is due indirectly to [[George W...
5: ... of the New Jersey General Assembly for March 11, 1896] - Connecticut (28543 bytes)
56: ...t and northwest corners of the state contrast sharply with its industrial cities, located along the co...
65: ..."[[Gold Coast, Connecticut|Gold Coast]]", for example, is often derided by residents of the rest of th...
79: ...ly''' have been a miracle.) [[Bus]] service is supplied by [[Connecticut Transit]], owned by the [[Con...
81: ...hey exited. A series of terrible crashes at these plazas eventually led to abandonment of the whole to...
83: ...e daily radio broadcasts of where crashes have completely blocked traffic are a fact of life for commu...
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