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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]] - 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: Ac (3800 bytes)
3: ...a, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
5: ...1954), boxer, former world title challenger, now promoter
21: *[[Sharon Acker|Acker, Sharon]] (born 1935)[http://imdb.com/name/nm0009943]
31: *[[Dorothea Ackermann|Ackermann, Dorothea]] (born 1752)
44: *[[Rosemarie Ackermann|Ackermann, Rosemarie]] (born 1952) - 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]] - 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 ... - 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. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
5: ... up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard College]] under [[Franz Boas...
9: ...ca of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy from the opening of ''[[Zora_Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Go...
15: ...author)|Richard Wright]]. Unlike Hurston, Wright wrote in explicitly political terms, using the strugg...
17: ... basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later proved to be correct.
20: ...st novel, ''Seraph on the Suwanee'', Hurston was wrongly accused of child molestation. In her defense ... - 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]]. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...g even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown|...
7: ... more [[radioactive]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanati...
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... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...''' ([[March 23]] [[1882]] – [[April 14]] [[1935]]) was one of the most talented [[mathematician]]...
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...
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... - 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]].
7: ...usband [[Frank Scott Hogg]] in [[1930]], and in [[1935]] moved to [[Ontario]] where she took a job at th...
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]]. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of...
9: ... them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
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. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat sin...
6: ...'s Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, in...
10: ...ice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s she was now called by other singers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening their ...
14: ...portant groups and [[Solo (music)|solo]]ists. Her role effectively was the "instrumentalist of voice".... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...ression]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...d to as the [[public enemy era]] between 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B...
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. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
4: ...928]], she became a [[naturalized citizen]]. By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] ca...
6: ... early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase a used [[16mm]] [[Bolex]]...
10: ...ce. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated th...
14: ...ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]. Deren is a character in Mer... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...ous works are [[documentary film|documentary]] [[propaganda film]]s for the German [[Nazi Party]]. Shu...
5: ...anck]], the director of that film, and demanded a role in his next film. He consented and Riefenstahl...
7: ... German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom...
9: ...put railways on the stadium to shoot the stadium crowd.
13: ... but politically naﶥ and ignorant about their atrocities—a position which many of her critics ... - 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. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ter]] in Stockholm and had a small role in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a doze...
7: ...an's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...nate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]] films. She received her third Academy Award...
22: * [[The Count of the Old Town]] (1935)
23: * [[The Surf]] (1935)
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