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- Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States|American]] [[human rights]] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the Unite...
9: ...However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin D...
11: ...Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, ...
33: ...eful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied n...
43: ...), for many years graced the mantle above the fireplace in her husband Franklin's presidential library... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ... years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. A...
7: ...Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a col...
9: ...m William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville...
15: ...he time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...ion, which legalized birth control for married couples in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year st... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...ent to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[Otto Hahn]]. She worked t...
10: ... Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan Project]].
12: ...omen's Press Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949. - Anna Maxwell (1551 bytes)
6: ...resbyterian Hospital|Presbyterian Hospital]] in [[Manhattan]], [[New York]] from 1892-1921. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...ebut]] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in one...
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
111: ==Samples==
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon" - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie...
16: ...gularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
20: ...dy Day with the white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that feature...
26: ...anis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[auto...
28: .... She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Billie married Lo... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...vis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insinc...
7: .... Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played God]]'', and she became a star in ''[[Of Huma...
11: ...hat Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'', in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time ri...
13: ...d [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Jack Warner]] signed Davis for another ven...
21: ...s. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
8: ...ven. The Bolenders were a religious couple who supplemented their meager income by being foster parent...
15: ...3.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
22: By 1952 Zanuck was nearly convinced and she played her first role as a leading lady in ''Don't B...
23: ...l, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her unique connect...
25: ...ppeared in the first edition of his new magazine, Playboy in December 1953. It was a smash hit. And wh... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
7: ...d. From [[1984]] to [[1990]], Streep won six [[People's Choice Award]]s for Favorite Motion Picture Ac...
9: ...ence. In the [[1990s]], therefore, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, including farce ...
11: ...[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she learned to play the [[violin]].
13: ...Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaim...
39: ...979]] - [[BAFTA]] Best Supporting Actress, in ''[[Manhattan]]'' - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...nge class]] [[steam locomotive]], at [[Bristol Temple Meads]] station, Bristol, England]]
3: ...red locomotives, and may be referred to as [[multiple unit]]s or [[railcar]]s; the use of these self-p...
12: ...should the locomotive break down, it is easy to replace it with a new one. Failure of the motive power...
14: ...e payload-hauling cars means that either can be replaced without affecting the other. At some times, l...
21: ... or [[oil]]. Because of the steam engine, some people took to calling the steam locomotives themselves... - George Washington (29551 bytes)
11: | place of birth=[[Westmoreland County, Virginia|Westm...
14: | place of death=[[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]], [[Virginia]]
21: ...[republic]]an [[democracy]] that served as an example around the world.
24: ...n his birth year. His birthplace was Pope's Creek Plantation, south of [[Colonial Beach, Virginia|Colo...
26: ... eventually inherited the estate, [[Mount Vernon (plantation)|Mount Vernon]] in [[Fairfax County, Virg... - U.S. state (14432 bytes)
5: ...oward centralization, with the federal government playing a much larger role than it once did.
74: For a complete list of non-state dependent areas and other te...
81: ...k|county]] (coterminous with the [[borough]] of [[Manhattan]]) in that city.
82: ...|counties]] in various states. See the [[list of places named for George Washington]].
84: ...land is "the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" - Kansas (21369 bytes)
37: ... from the [[Sioux|Siouan]] word Kansa meaning "People of the south wind", is a [[Midwest|midwestern]] ...
44: ...r [[Oregon]], Kansas was a waystop and outfitting place. On [[March 30]], [[1855]] "Border Ruffians" f...
48: ...] destroying much of the city and killing many people.
55: {{Template:MetaSidebar|250px|#ffffaa|right|[[Kansas state...
66: }}<!-- this may be placed anywhere in the article, just keep out of the... - Tennessee (19096 bytes)
39: ...rst recorded by Captain Juan Pardo, the Spanish explorer, when he and his men passed through a [[Nativ...
41: ...)|Creek]] word. It has been said to mean "meeting place", "winding river", or "river of the great bend...
46: ... the cultural predecessors of the [[Muscogee]] people who inhabited the [[Tennessee River]] Valley pri...
48: ...west, including all [[Muscogee]] and [[Yuchi]] peoples, including the [[Chickasaw]] and [[Choctaw]]. F...
56: The need to create work for the unemployed during the Depression, the desire for rural e... - American Psycho (168 bytes)
3: ... a novel by [[Bret Easton Ellis]] about a young [[Manhattan]]ite [[serial killer]]. A film adaptation was rel... - List of reference tables (55289 bytes)
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17: ...s/List_of_mis|11,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_people_by_name:_Zz|12,]] [[Special:Allpages/List_of_tel...
29: **[[Lists of people]]
63: **List of [[Resin identification code|plastic recycling codes]]
90: *[[Classification of finite simple groups]] - Thomas Edison (20653 bytes)
3: ...was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of [[mass production]] to the process of [[inve...
5: ...patents, and were actually made by his numerous employees. Edison was frequently criticized for not sh...
20: Edison applied for his first patent, the electric vote record...
24: ...e invention enjoyed popularity. The "gramophone", playing [[gramophone record]]s, was invented by [[Em...
27: ...marily supervised the operation and work of his employees. - World War II (58065 bytes)
1: ...umb|295px|[[Mushroom cloud]] from the [[nuclear explosion]] over [[Nagasaki]] rising 18 km (over 11 mi...
8: Approximately 57 million people [[List of World War II casualties by country|die...
10: ..., and China came to split into the Communist [[People's Republic of China]] and the Nationalist [[Repu...
18: ...s powers with any great abundance of troops or supplies.
24: ...ests in seeing a particular side prevail. For example, neutral [[Switzerland]] was generally considere... - History of the United States (1776-1789) (19792 bytes)
15: The perceived need for a more powerful and complete federal government led, in 1787, to the callin...
31: ...England from the rest. Failed communications and planning resulted in the army descending from Canada...
35: ...nch not to seek a separate peace, which would cripple French efforts to gain concessions from the Brit...
49: ...large population and its political leadership had played prominent roles in the Revolution. New York ...
58: Opponents of the plan for stronger government took the name [[Antifed... - January 1 (18244 bytes)
1: ...'' refers to the order in which the months are displayed, [[January]] to [[December]]. The first day o...
7: ...known [[gladiator]] competition in [[Rome]] takes place.
15: ...vet Island]] is discovered by [[France|French]] explorer [[Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier]].
17: *[[1797]] - Albany replaces New York City as the capital on New York.
18: ... Great Britain]] and [[Kingdom of Ireland]] is completed to form [[United Kingdom]]
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