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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
113: | [[1919]] — [[1932]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...dentity. These cultural and political influences from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves o...
7: ...opulation, the ability to store and redistribute crops, and to support specialist craftsmen and admini...
9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
11: ...anxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[China]].
14: ...oral examplars, and one of them, the [[Yellow Emperor]], is sometimes said to be the ancestor of all C... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: .... She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she su...
9: ...Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambrid...
11: ...]]s in [[1883]]. The Tecks travelled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying i...
13: ...d War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]].
17: ...he [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of ... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ...ilroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919) and his wife, [[Anne Witcher Keene]]. Her sister...
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where...
8: ...quired by-election. Elected on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman electe...
10: ...y critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had protested to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ... effectively exiled by [[Stalin]], who sent her abroad as a diplomat, and she was thus one of the very...
7: ...ment" in [[1919]]. This organization worked to improve the conditions of women's lives in the [[Soviet...
13: ...Joseph Stalin]] gained power, he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appoint...
15: ...the Stalin regime, though as a diplomat serving abroad, she had little or no influence in government p... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
4: ...n '''Constance Gore-Booth''', the daughter of [[baronet]] and explorer Sir Henry Gore-Booth, she lived...
6: ..., where she became involved in radical politics through the [[suffragette]] movement and in the Irish ...
10: ...clined to take her seat on release from prison in 1919. Instead she joined her colleagues assembled in ...
12: ... Dᩬ. Holding cabinet rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Mini... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...WSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]]. - 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... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [...
4: ...yn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practic...
11: ...d also produced an [[atheism|atheist]] [[radio]] program in which she criticized [[religion]] and [[th...
16: ... of only $500,000. No further communication came from any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray fi...
18: ...iolent crimes (along with one for stealing funds from the organisation). Police concluded he and accom... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ... [[Victorian era]], whose novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their [[realis...
5: ...ay have been a desire to shield her private life from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attendin...
8: ...ion. Charles Bray, a [[Coventry]] manufacturer, brought her into contact with more liberal theologies...
12: ...ooned in [[Venice]] and, allegedly, Cross jumped from their hotel balcony into the Grand Canal on thei...
14: Friend and author [[Henry James]] once wrote of her: - 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... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...s|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and remembered for her myst...
6: ...olism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve...
8: ...lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her f...
10: ...to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...old Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]]. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...lly began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her eccen...
8: ...]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's second wife, a highly literat...
10: ...rgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her...
12: ... by the sea at Nervi, near [[Genoa]]. Here, away from the rigid constraints of a bourgeois Muscovite l...
16: ...ommunity, the ''魩gr駧 [[Viktoria Schweitzer]] wrote: "Here inspiration was born." - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...nd a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...he intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation ...
9: ...ar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of...
11: ...arious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]],...
13: ... of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imagina... - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ..., [[1948]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: ... graduate studies at [[Columbia University]] in [[1919]], studying under [[Franz Boas]], receiving her [...
9: Benedict wrote poetry under the name "Anne Singleton" until th...
13: In 1936 she was appointed an [[associate professor]].
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Governmen... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
5: ...ether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlangen]]. She did not show
9: ...rsity's prospectus under his own name. A long controversy ensued, with her opponents asking what the c...
10: ...se." She was finally admitted to the faculty in [[1919]]. A [[Jew]], Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]]...
12: ...ern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetries.
14: ... theory)|ideal]]s in a [[commutative ring]], and proved the existence of primary decompositions for su... - 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... - Mary Edwards Walker (4835 bytes)
2: ...]], [[Abolitionism|abolitionist]], [[Prohibition|prohibitionist]], [[Secret agent|spy]], [[prisoner of...
8: ...ert Miller, and they set up a joint practice in [[Rome, New York]]. The practice did not flourish, as...
10: ...worked as an unpaid field surgeon near the Union front lines, including the [[Battle of Fredericksburg...
12: ...], [[1864]], she was captured by [[Confederate]] troops and arrested as a spy (there appears to be som...
14: Sections from the citation accompanying the medal read: - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of...
9: ... [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the e...
13: ...was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: ... personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...other expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...n [[Australia]] and some short visitations to [[Europe]].
5: ... who emphasized [[education]] and [[health]] and promoted establishment of [[schools]] and medical cen...
7: ... and 40 books; but today, including compilations from her 50,000 pages of manuscript, more than 100 ti...
9: ...by some to be the prophetess for the end-times, through the Holy Spirit, she sought to draw more and m...
11: ...tians. She even considered Christian unity to be from Satan and one of the big apostasies of the last ...
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