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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
161: | [[1895]] — [[1904]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings) - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...icle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fic...
6: ... de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ... de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...lmeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...uerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...eate the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
7: ...itation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculative. The ''[[Homo ...
14: ...metimes said to be the ancestor of all Chinese people. Following this period Sima Qian relates that a ...
24: ...in early China is known to have been much more complicated. Hence, as some scholars of China suggest, ...
38: ... from Persian or Sanskrit origins for "Chinese People" which ultimately was derived from 秦 qÃn and ... - 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.
23: Between [[1904]] and [[1906]] her work was interrupted by three ...
32: ...l catastrophe which even led her to briefly contemplate suicide: [[Revisionism]], which she had fought... - 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 ...
31: ..., France awarded her the [[Legion of Honor]] in [[1904]].
77: ...y Children Playing with a Cat 1908.jpg|''Children Playing with a Cat'' (1908) - 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... - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
4: ...du Castel died, and Pizan became a court writer employed by various ducal and Royal households, in ord...
21: ...fe in the France of the early 15th century not supplied by more formal historians.
25: ...ved in a manuscript at Longleat. This was edited (1904) for the Roxburghe Club by W.G.F. Warner as ''The... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...e of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausa...
20: ...s, she came into contact with ordinary Russian people and was shocked by the mood of anger and violenc... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work... - 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.
41: ...ct was founding the National First Aid Society in 1904. - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: '''Painting''' is the practice of applying [[pigment]] suspended in a carrier (or [[medi...
4: ... is the process of making marks on a surface by applying pressure from or moving a tool on the surface...
8: ...ceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
20: *[[Pointillism]] (aka divisionism, 'stippling')
36: Examples include: - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...a very rare [[woodwind]] instrument invented in [[1904]] by the firm of Wilhelm Heckel GmbH in [[Wiesbad...
3: ...ach]]'s second [[Brandenburg Concerto]], where it played the high trumpet part in the last movement. I...
5: Following the basic principle of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone in F...
7: ...sion instruments capable of cutting through quadruple wind sections became much less necessary. Thirdl...
9: ...ted with keys. Four or five are known to be on display at the Heckel museum in [[Biebrich]], and there... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ould be repealed because it excludes qualified people based on technicalities, and fails to appreciate...
16: ...George W. Bush]] will become the fourth at the completion of his current term in 2008.
19: ...President, while the individual who was in second place became Vice President.
25: ...ing across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. Much of the modern electoral pr...
35: ... a vast organization numbering about 4 million people, including 1 million active-duty military person... - 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... - 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... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...arth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
15: Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s ...
53: ... that at a given time there are at least 1,000 people living in Antarctica. This varies considerably w...
82: ...dm|60|44|S|44|44|W|}}) [[Orcadas Islands]] (since 1904)({{flag|Argentina}})
103: ...[John Calvin Batchelor]]'s "The Birth of the [[People's Republic]] of Antarctica" ([[1983]]) - Samoa (9435 bytes)
57: ... became territories of the [[United States]] in [[1904]] and today are known as [[American Samoa]]. The ...
59: ...m Western Samoa to Samoa. Samoa had been known simply as Samoa in the [[United Nations]] since joining...
64: ...resigned due to health reasons. Tofilau Eti was replaced by his deputy, Tuila'epa Sailele Malielegaoi.
66: ... Progressive Conservative Party, the Samoa All Peoples Party, and the Samoa Liberal Party.
90: ...ragement of investment, and continued fiscal discipline. Observers point to the flexibility of the lab... - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
59: ===European exploration and administration (1870–1960)===
61: ...]]'s novella ''[[Heart of Darkness]]'' also takes place in Congo Free State. In 1908, the Belgian parl...
67: ... of the permanent committee of the All-African Peoples Conference (founded in [[Accra]], 1958) and pre...
72: ... was not believed by many). Riots of protest took place in many parts of the world. See his ''Congo: M...
74: The [[CIA]] had aided Mobutu and was pleased with the outcome, having viewed the [[Soviet... - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
13: ...(Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective [[March 9]], 1904). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cros...
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