Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
37: | [[1933]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]] - 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)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strate...
24: ...orge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...ent Millay, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1933]]'''Edna St. Vincent Millay''' ([[February 22]], ...
3: ... Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]. Millay rose to fame with her poem "[http://www.bartleby.com...
9: ...Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy th...
11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent Millay died about ...
20: Her finest poems, however, are probably "[http://www.bartleby.com/131/1.html Renasce... - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...[[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
3: ...dal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, London]]
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...y and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she was appointed to t...
11: ...gical Interest: A Volume in Honour of Professor Dorothy Hodgkin''. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. - 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: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
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... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apgar Score]], ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...sh; [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of...
7: ...n early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move ...
9: ...se]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker ...
14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ...eafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]]. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...ge presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by...
7: ...nest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charl...
9: ... musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ... preferring to have Bessie back in her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a ...
13: ...ned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she never... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...ression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...n Dillinger]] and [[Ma Barker]], were notorious across the nation. They captivated the attention of th...
9: ...12; and in January 1929, she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in priso...
11: ...he was a stalwart and loyal companion to Clyde Barrow as they evaded capture and awaited the violent d...
15: ...fteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: '''Helena Petrovna Hahn''' ([[July 31]], [[1831]] ([[Julian calen...
5: ...nist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a noncon...
7: ...atsky continued on to Cairo herself. It was in Cairo that she formed the Societe Spirite for [[occult]...
9: ...w feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Though sh...
13: ...rriage was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and their divorce ... - 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... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: ...Germany]], was a [[Roman Catholic]] nun and war heroine.
3: ...cision to fight evil and began to hide refugees from the [[Gestapo]] and eventually used her convent ...
5: ...rt Montluc in Lyon. From there she was taken to [[Romainville]] before being shipped to [[Ravensbr?[[c... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...come a navigator in the [[Soviet Air Force]] in [[1933]]. A year later she started teaching at the Zhuko...
7: ...aight-line distance flight. The plan was to fly from [[Moscow]] to [[Komsmolosk]] (in the Far East)....
9: ...ty. All three women were decorated with "The [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]" award, the first females e...
11: ...is military unit was initially called ''Aviation Group 122'' while the three regiments received traini...
15: ...three women's regiments to remain solely female throughout the war, a distinction they went to some le...
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).