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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
7: {{Taxobox_subclassis_entry | taxon = [[Rosidae]]}}
16: ...pefruit''' is a sub-tropical [[citrus]] [[tree]] grown for its [[fruit]], which are also known as grap...
18: ...Texas]]. In Spanish the fruit is known as the ''toronja''.
20: ...roduced the [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
22: ...the tree. Botannically, it was not distinguished from the pummelo until the [[1830s]], when it was giv... - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]] - 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... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
17: ...Special Operations Executive|SOE]] agent, WW II hero
25: ...es de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman Empire]] [[1056]]-[[1068]]
27: *[[Spiro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United St...
36: ...nnes Agricola|Agricola, Johannes]], (1494-1566), Protestant reformer
38: *[[Rodolphus Agricola|Agricola, Rodolphus]], (1443-1485), Dutch scholar and humanist - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strate...
24: ...orge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
7: ...ddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] where she cared for their children an...
9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ... She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a special election of the ...
17: ...lan]] and was victorious after receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and u...
23: ...porter of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s economic recovery legislation. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and ...
6: ...ker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy ...
9: ...y she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and...
18: ...] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" ...
21: ...me of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, the... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...mark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in...
5: ... won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Can...
7: ... coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...h, mostly collections of short stories; she also wrote a novel entitled ''The Angelic Avengers'', unde...
11: ...ered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband. - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ...edom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
6: ... helped break down the segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Liter...
8: ...ciation of [[materialism]] and the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize i...
10: She is currently the [[Robert F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University... - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ..., she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two ye...
12: ...rom 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
13: ... life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business.
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubi...
19: ...she had a large circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art... - 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]]. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
4: ...obby, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
6: ...on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...nce Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
10: ...[[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [...
12: ...] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also... - 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... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...lk and pencils. Nevertheless, Coleman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Col...
6: ...an started to fantasize about being a pilot. Her brother used to tease her by commenting that French w...
8: ... and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
14: ...pt stereotyped blacks. Her ultimate aim ws to improve the lot of Africcan Americans by opening a flig...
16: ...ly because of a wrench that got stuck in the control gears. Coleman was killed instantly. Wills also... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...veloper of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
3: ...ssar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...or it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work on the devel...
9: ...lent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was clos...
12: ...t turned into an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. ... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
3: ...t remembered for her astronomy column, which ran from [[1951]] until [[1981]].
5: ...clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
9: ...ssor emeritus of English at the [[University of Toronto]], who died in [[1988]]. She died of a [[myoca...
11: ...ward in Astronomy]] in [[1949]] and the [[Klumpke-Roberts Award]] in [[1983]].
13: ...de an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1976]]. - 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 ... - 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...
11: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
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.
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