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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]]
136: | [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...thers. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reached the [[Amer...
2: ...age provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]]
3: ...ate was over whether it would be possible to get around the planet without running out of food or gett...
5: ...rica was known to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[p...
9: ...large-scale [[colonization]] of the Americas by Europeans. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...2]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozhars...
12: ...ard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ...]: [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican...
15: ...ility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]]. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
11: *[[Aaron]], (ca. 1300 BC), [[Bible|Biblical]] figure
12: *[[Hank Aaron|Aaron, Hank]], (1934-), baseball player
13: *[[Sarah Aaronsohn|Aaronsohn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [...
14: ...ronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ... General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: ...orge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ... States]], the third of the five daughters of railroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919...
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where...
10: ...y critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had protested to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...9]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]. Golda Meir was the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epith...
6: ...up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. Her life there was tough; she and her two sis...
10: ... carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a grocery store. Beginning when she was only eight yea...
14: ...gan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public schoo... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: [[Image:Annie Besant - Project Gutenberg eText 13715.png|thumbnail|right|250...
2: ...]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights...
4: ...n socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
7: ...ophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
9: ...]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into the fold through the agency of Besant, who had been elected pre... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...y, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the mo...
6: ...his wife Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her ...
8: ...aged to meet in secret; Rosa joined one of these groups.
10: ...flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Z... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
5: ...paign was interrupted by her husband's death in [[1898]]. In [[1903]] she founded the better-known [[Wo...
7: ...feeding after going on [[hunger strike]]. Her approach to the campaign did not endear her to everyone... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...ed seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smi...
7: ...Mille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she ...
9: ...that reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines.
11: ...olism, and Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883...
13: ...'s second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business schedule and Fairban... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...g even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown|...
7: ...active]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pi...
9: ...tive country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...earches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first wo...
13: ...tionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scientific co... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ra Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...est remembered for organizing the [[American Red Cross]].
6: ... and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers and sisters were kept busy answering her man...
8: ...ring little girl, but at the age of 11, when her brother became ill, for 2 years Clara stayed by his s...
12: ... taught in a small Massachusetts town, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to tea... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross Nursing Service]].
4: ...strative skills and developed innovative nursing procedures for the patients under her care. Leaving F...
6: ...n and chair of the National Committee of the Red Cross Nursing Service.
8: ... War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military.
10: ... of the hill overlooking the nurses section is a bronze memorial to Jane Delano and the 296 nurses who... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
1: ...an Pyramids|Pyramids]] have become a symbol of Cairo internationally]]
2: ...ost populous metropolitan area]] in the world. Cairo is located at 30°2' North, 31°13' East (3...
4: ...y, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) pronounced ''Maşr'' in the local dialect.
6: ...airo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are examples)
7: ...age:EgyptAlQahirah.png|thumb|200px|Egypt, with Cairo [[Governorates of Egypt|governorate]] highlighted... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...eration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in ...
24: ...758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing d...
28: ...[Samuel Adams]]; instead, his influence emerged through his work as a constitutional lawyer. Impetuous...
31: ...which he pronounced the Stamp Act invalid on the ground that Massachusetts, being without representati...
35: ...f a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establish... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...="center" colspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
21: ...of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (...
22: <tr><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>Lawyer</td></tr>
29: ... [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[1912]]. - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...opus (Egypt)|Canopus]]. It has a population of approximately 3,341,000.
3: ... of antiquity. However, upon the founding of [[Cairo]] by Egypt's mediæval Islamic rulers its st...
13: ...ding of the city and ends with the arrival of the Romans (blue).
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[64...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (ye... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...rth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several ...
4: ... Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on [[October 23]], [[4...
6: ...o thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...ury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thousa...
13: ...ve them an appreciation that the Earth had been through many changes during its existence, however lon...
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