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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]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...lorations]], [[Sea explorer|sea explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[Hi...
7: *[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] ex...
8: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
15: *[[Diego de Almagro]] - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[Ronald Reagan]]
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...resident of the United States]] under President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1981]]–[[1989]]). He is the...
22: ...in the prominent investment banking firm [[Brown Brothers Harriman]].
24: ...Phillips Academy]] in [[Andover, Massachusetts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated earl... - 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: Ab (7347 bytes)
16: ...orge Robert Aberigh-Mackay|Aberigh-Mackay, George Robert]], (1848-1881), author
18: ...ob Abbadie|Abbadie, Jakob]], (1654?-1727), Swiss Protestant preacher
31: *[[Robert Abbot|Abbot, Robert]], (1588?-1662?), English Puritan divine
49: *[[Abd-el-Aziz IV]], (1880-), sultan of Morocco
57: *[[Rosa Mustafa Abdulkhaleq|Abdulkhaleq, Rosa Mustafa]], (born 1976), Yemeni pilot - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ... from [[20 June]] [[1837]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more ...
12: ...tranged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the...
14: ...oria's uncle, the Prince of Wales, inherited the Crown, becoming King George IV. Though she occupied a...
16: ...the ''[[Regency Act 1831]]'', under which it was provided that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent ...
18: ...sons for marrying Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage. - 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... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...e Societies (the [[NUWSS]]), a position she held from [[1897]] until [[1919]].
7: ... British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]]...
5: ...fore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Huds...
9: ...riodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health ...
11: ...an-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[men...
13: ... of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many ... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
6: ...ng at [[Columbia College]] in [[Columbia, South Carolina]].
8: While in South Carolina, a friend showed some of O'Keeffe's drawings ...
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.
12: During her years in New York City, O'Keefe produced many paintings, including urban and architec... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on oth...
19: ...o have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the play, ''[[The Night of January 16th]]'' in ...
24: ...ms were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Living'' i... - 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: ...After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a ...
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." - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: Prof. Dr. '''Maria G?rt-Mayer''' ([[June 28]], [[1906...
3: ...tions and enrolled there in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max ...
5: ...on scientific projects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. H...
7: ...ning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
9: ...wise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, others twirl ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...erence had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teen...
11: ...xt-align:center">[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div>
13: ...10. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which sh...
15: ...May 5, 1912, and they had a son, [[Rolf McPherson|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[De...
4: ...John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ... won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...ugh as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we t...
12: ...hat she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
5: ...nasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
10: ...ajor role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He als...
12: ...he [[United States]] in [[1925]] to work for [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given ...
17: ...l lesbian lovers, including the actress [[Louise Brooks]] and the writer/socialite [[Mercedes de Acost...
23: ...seductive as the [[World War I]] spy in the title role of ''[[Mata Hari]]'' ([[1932 in film|1932]]). T... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink seve...
6: ...he following year. She also won six consecutive European championships.
10: ...d in a revised edition in [[1954]]. She retired from acting in [[1958]] with the film ''Hello, London...
12: ...married three times, with [[Dan Topping]], [[Winthrop Gardner]], and finally the shipowner [[Niels Ons...
14: ...he died in [[1969]] of [[leukemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the gre... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ench and [[United Kingdom|British]] women's game from [[1919]] to [[1926]], winning 25 [[Grand Slam (t...
8: ...hen she played on the tennis court at the family property in [[Marest-sur-Matz]]. The young girl enjoy...
10: ...925.) She lost to reigning champion [[Marguerite Broquedis]] in a closely fought three-set match: 5&nd...
14: ...; and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close m...
18: ...(playing with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...e they have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...s in one direction, and are controlled from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the othe...
8: ...ly isolated in a locomotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
10: ...easier to maintain one locomotive than many self-propelled cars.
11: ...n safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was particularly the case for t...
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