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  1. 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: ...4), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] ''Sentinel'' that desegregation was predicated ...
    36: *''[[Mule Bone]]'' (A play written with [[Langston Hughes]]) ([[1996]])
  2. 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...
    44: *''[[Orlando: A Biography]]'' ([[1928]])
  3. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    7: ...many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after l...
    11: ...pressed with the pilot episode produced by the couple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes ...
    24: ... comedy in front of a live audience demanded discipline, technique, and close choreography. Among oth...
    28: ...sode of ''[[The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour]]'', the couple [[divorce]]d. One of television's greatest marri...
    32: ...t in production. For instance, she apparently completely misunderstood the premise of one of the comp...
  4. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    3: ...vakia]]) is a former World No. 1 woman [[tennis]] player. Originally from Czechoslovakia, she defected...
    9: ...She won her first professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]] in [[1974]].
    21: ...(Navrátilová was ranked the World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s...
    25: ...ks and 331 total weeks as the World No. 1 singles player.) In [[1988]], Graf truly eclipsed Navratilo...
    31: ...ged 47 years and 8 months, to make her the oldest player to win a professional singles match in the Op...
  5. George M. Dallas (3858 bytes)
    7: ...n Van Buren]] as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia from [[1837]] to [[1839]],...
    9: ...as was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to [[United Kingdom|Britain]] by Pre...
    19: ...before=[[Richard Mentor Johnson]]|after=[[William Orlando Butler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1844...
  6. California (63989 bytes)
    44: <!-- before modifying these state symbols please verify your changes against official Californ...
    57: Grass = [[Stipa|Purple Needlegrass]] |
    81: ...Footnotes in this article use names, not numbers. Please see [[Wikipedia:Footnotes]] for details.
    82: ... 1) Assign your footnote a unique name, for example TheSun_Dec9.
    86: 5) Multiple footnotes to the same reference: see [[Wikipedia...
  7. Florida (24937 bytes)
    36: ...owery". It was discovered by [[Spain|Spanish]] explorers during the [[Easter]] season, which is calle...
    49: ...licans]], leaving the state approximately evenly split between the two parties. Despite this demograph...
    76: ...t as large as those in the [[Midwest]] or [[Great Plains]]. [[Hail]] is not an uncommon occurrence in ...
    85: ...into the theme park arena such as the [[Universal Orlando Resort]]. The great amount of sales tax revenue i...
    88: ...ata centers and the state's reputation as "a good place to do dirty business". [[Spammers]] are not t...
  8. List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
    1: This is a list of notable people associated with the [[Renaissance]].
    181: * [[Johannes Kepler]]
    198: * [[Johannes Kepler]]
    231: * [[Orlandus Lassus]] (also known as Orlando di Lasso)
    245: ==Explorers and Navigators==
  9. Ludovico Ariosto (4416 bytes)
    1: ...[epic]] poem ''[[Orlando furioso]]'' ([[1516]]), "Orlando Enraged".
    6: ... of his life yet to accomplish, at his eminence's pleasure. Nor was even this miserable pittance regul...
    8: ...iosto to accompany him. The poet excused himself, pleading ill health, his love of study, the care of ...
    10: ... of one of these hurried journeys brought on a complaint from which he never recovered, and on his sec...
    12: ... discovering that his captive was the author of ''Orlando Furioso'', humbly apologized for not having immed...
  10. Atlanta Braves (20715 bytes)
    5: ...d Stockings founder [[Harry Wright]] and the best players from that team re-formed in Boston and took ...
    20: ...st, but they ended up 10.5 games up on the second place Giants.
    21: ...y were now World Champions. The turnaround was complete. The team was at the top of the league in both...
    37: ... games. Burdette, the Series MVP, threw three complete game victories, giving up only two earned runs...
    46: ...nsistently recognized as one of the league's best players, but the Braves averaged only 65 wins per se...
  11. Chicago White Sox (19057 bytes)
    14: :''See also:'' [[List of Chicago White Sox people]]
    17: ...y [[Charles Comiskey]], a former major-league ballplayer who starred with the [[St. Louis Cardinals|St...
    25: ...eball, banned all the accused nonetheless. As the players were leaving a hearing, a boy fan (said by s...
    27: ... White Sox finished in the second division (fifth place or lower) 22 times, until the team rebuilt und...
    30: ...reflected a tendency to win games through scrappy play rather than consistently strong hitting or pitc...
  12. Houston Astros (8294 bytes)
    6: ...ged its name to the Astros when the team began to play in the [[Houston Astrodome]] in [[1965]].
    18: ...hnson]], [[Mike Cuellar]], [[Don Wilson (baseball player)|Don Wilson]], [[Larry Dierker]], [[Dave Gius...
    22: ** The Astros make the playoffs in 1981, and again in 1986, culminating in ...
    24: ...ach of these titles was followed by a first round playoff ejection, twice at the hands of the [[Atlant...
    26: ...title in 2001, and were again eliminated from the playoffs in the first round by the Braves.
  13. Oakland Athletics (34248 bytes)
    18: ...e [[National Association of Professional Baseball Players|National Association]], [[National League]],...
    20: The new league recruited many of its players from the existing National League, persuadin...
    22: ...nk]] and [[Chief Bender|Charles "Chief" Bender]]. Plank holds the club record for career victories, wi...
    24: ... traded, sold or released most of the team?s star players. In his book ''To Every Thing a Season'', Br...
    26: ...17 (.235) in 1916. The team would finish in last place every year after that until 1922, when it fini...
  14. St. Louis Cardinals (18903 bytes)
    37: ...ue president [[Ford Frick]] threatened to ban any players who boycotted any games, and the boycott nev...
    40: ...Brock]], [[Bob Gibson]], [[Steve Carlton]], and [[Orlando Cepeda]] led the "Redbirds" to World Series title...
    45: ...]]. The Cardinals, leading 1-0 at the time of the play and needing that victory to clinch the title, w...
    50: The Cards reached the playoffs [[1996]], but the [[Atlanta Braves]] defeat...
    54: ...ire broke the single-season home run record while playing with St. Louis in 1998</i></small>
  15. March 23 (10340 bytes)
    10: ...with a sword, then [[strangle]]d, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael Palace.
    11: ... Purchase]] and reaching the [[Pacific Ocean]], explorers [[Lewis and Clark]] and their "Corps of Disc...
    18: ...eir invention of one of the first successful [[airplane]]s after much hard work.
    44: *[[1749]] - [[Pierre Simon de Laplace]], French mathematician and astronomer (d. [[1...
    64: *[[1931]] - [[Viktor Korchnoi]], Russian chess player
  16. Amusement park (17293 bytes)
    3: ...park is more elaborate than a simple city park or playground, as an amusement park is meant to cater t...
    7: ...tes). Today, amusement parks have largely been replaced by theme parks, and the two terms are often u...
    9: For a remarkable example of a European park, dating from [[1843]] and sti...
    12: ...ns. This conglomeration of attractions was the template used for amusement parks for the next half-cen...
    14: ...he world-famous Cyclone [[roller coaster]] at Steeplechase Park in [[1927]] marked the beginning of th...
  17. List of Major League Baseball players (29066 bytes)
    1: ...e noted with an asterisk (*). For a list of other players for whom an article does not yet exist, see:...
    4: *[[List of First MLB Black Player by Team and Date]]
    5: *[[List of Negro League baseball players]]
    6: *[[List of current MLB players]]
    7: ... players by national origin|Lists of major league players by national origin]]
  18. Maltese (dog) (7842 bytes)
    25: ...oogle.com/search?q=cache:uGvJAFKuRCUJ:www.fci.be/uploaded_files/065gb98_en.doc+site:www.fci.be+%2265+/...
    55: ...rs. They are relatively easy to train and enjoy a playful game of fetch. These intelligent dogs learn ...
    57: ... owner and will bark or may bite if animals or people infringe on their territory or are perceived as ...
    59: ...nered of all little dogs, yet they are lively and playful as well as vigorous. Because of their size, ...
    62: ... are considered [[hypoallergenic]] and so many people who are allergic to dogs in general, may not be ...
  19. Billy Beane (1754 bytes)
    2: ... Florida]]) is a former [[Major League Baseball]] player and the current [[general manager (baseball)|...
    4: ...]], and the A's in [[1989 in sports|1989]]. He completed his 148-game career with a .219 [[batting ave...
    6: ...en repeatedly thwarted in their bid to win in the playoffs.
  20. William R. King (5588 bytes)
    5: ...ocated in [[Cahawba, Alabama]], where he became a planter.
    11: ...nd died there. He was interred in a vault on his plantation, and was later reinterred in Live Oak Cem...
    16: *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=K000217 King's Congressional Biography]
    22: ...residential_nominees|candidate]]|before=[[William Orlando Butler]]|after=[[John C. Breckinridge]]|years=[[U...

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