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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...cia]] or [[Portugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic O...
3: ...etting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Americas,...
5: ...t]]''', one of the most consistent is the first exploration (before 1472) of two, led by [[João Vaz C...
7: Columbus landed in the [[Bahamas]] and later explored much of the [[Caribbean]], including the isle...
11: ...]]. Others honour him for the massive boost his explorations gave to Western expansion and culture. [[... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
12: ...ate]] troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material...
24: ...orders the [[United States Customs Service]] to implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939...
31: ...d as the [[Arno]] and [[Po]] rivers flood; 113 people die, 30,000 are rendered homeless, and countless...
51: *[[1883]] - [[Nikolaos Plastiras]], Greek general and politician (d. [[1953...
53: ...[1909]] - [[Skeeter Webb]], American [[baseball]] player (d. [[1986]]) - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
9: ...amisepp|Aamisepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
14: ==== People named Adam ====
32: ===== People named Adams =====
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
9: ...-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
19: ...1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...or [[Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor then became the [[Con...
10: ...sign and supported [[Winston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became edito...
12: ...an campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day Dodgers]]''. Her implication that they had it easy because they were av...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...#1512;''') (b. '''Golda Mabovitz'''; [[May 3]], [[1898]] – [[December 8]], [[1978]]) was a founder...
10: ...ort time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
16: ...]], then [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. The couple and her sister Sheyna emigrated to Palestine in ...
20: ...nity. Her duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the...
28: ...pendence]], I couldn't imagine these were real people doing something real. And there I was sitting do... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
22: ...iage, As It Was, As It Is, And As It Should Be: A Plea For Reform (1878)
27: * The Ancient Wisdom (1898) - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
14: ...ontrary, stuck to her revolutionary Marxist principles. In [[1893]], along with [[Leo Jogiches]] and [...
19: ... Revisionists to leave the SPD. This did not take place, but at least [[Karl Kautsky]]'s party leaders...
21: ...he party leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky.
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought...
42: ...e Social Democratic leader, [[Friedrich Ebert]] employed nationalist militia, the [[Freikorps]], to su... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...paign was interrupted by her husband's death in [[1898]]. In [[1903]] she founded the better-known [[Wo...
7: ...n did not endear her to everyone, and there were splits within the movement as a result. Her autobiog... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted...
9: ...r who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few stars who were successfu...
11: ... became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the rec...
13: ...r]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful busines... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
7: ...ted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of ...
15: ...share two Nobel Prizes. She is one of only two people who has been awarded a [[Nobel Prize]] in two di... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...er many questions, and each sibling taught her complementary skills. When Clara started school at age ...
21: ...] bureaucracy in vain to bring her own medical supplies to the battlefields. Finally, in July 1862, sh...
23: In [[1865]], President [[Abraham Lincoln]] placed her in charge of the search for the missing m...
35: ... less than a mile from her birthplace in a family plot in Oxford, Massachusetts.
43: ==Clara Barton's Birthplace House and Museum== - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
6: In [[1898]], during the [[Spanish-American War]], Jane Dela...
8: ...course of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military.
12: ... York]] there is a Jane Delano Memorial with a display of personal items including a number of her awa... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ...rea]] population of approximately 15.2 million people. Cairo is the [[List of metropolitan areas by po...
4: ...e city, in local speech it is typically called simply by the name of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabi...
6: ...Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
20: ...the ancient [[necropolis]] of Memphis on the Giza plateau, with its three large [[pyramid|pyramids]], ...
32: ...amed the city Al-Qahirah after the planet [[Mars (planet)|Mars]] which was rising on the day the city ... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
28: ...ly manifested at a later period—as, for example, during his term as president.
39: ...ore this question had been disposed of, Adams was placed at the head of the Board of War and Ordinance...
46: ...rens played a minor role, Jay, Adams and Franklin played the major part in the negotiations. Overrulin... - 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...
60: ...to decisively win the [[Spanish-American War]] in 1898, one year after he left office. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
19: ...ocks of birds to eat it. In any case, the story explains Alexandria's role as the shipping-point for E...
34: ...ose favor the city paid dear to [[Octavian]], who placed over it a prefect from the imperial household...
36: ...ne of the chief reasons which induced Augustus to place it directly under [[Roman Empire|imperial powe...
40: ...century]] AD, it declined fast in population and splendour.
42: ...temples by Theophilus|Destruction of the pagan temples by Theophilus]]. - 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...
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