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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
49: | [[1960]] — [[1969]]
76: | [[Baton Rouge, Louisiana|Baton Rouge]]
135: | [[North Carolina]] - Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
1: ...r the state with the same name, see [[Rio de Janeiro (state)]].''
3: [[Image:Rio_de_Janeiro-Ipanema_Beach.jpg|thumbnail|250px|right|Ipanema b...
5: ...thumb|250px|A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro]]
7: ...Portuguese]]) is the name of both a [[Rio de Janeiro (state)|state]] and a city in southeastern [[Braz...
9: ...aulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place. - 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: 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]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
9: ...is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]],...
11: ... mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
17: ... to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edwar...
20: ...rchbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
10: | date of birth=[[September 30]], [[1960]]
18: ...] [[United States Senate|United States Senator]] from the State of [[Arkansas]]. She was the youngest...
20: ...e attended Arkansas public schools and graduated from [[Randolph-Macon Woman's College]] in [[Lynchbur... - Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
16: |[[John Ashcroft]]
30: ...her, Henry Reno, immigrated to the United States from [[Denmark]] and for forty-three years was a poli...
32: ...n's Self Government Association]], and earned her room and board.
34: ...re than 500 students. She received her [[LL.B.]] from Harvard three years later. Despite her Harvard d...
40: ... previous nominee [[Zoe Baird]] had confirmation problems when it was revealed she had previously empl... - 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. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...yn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practic...
7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]''...
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... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...rst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] moveme...
9: ...[1912]] she broke with the WSPU over the group's promotion of arson attacks. Sylvia set up the [[East ...
11: The group continued to move leftwards and briefly adopted...
13: ...organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the short-lived Comm...
15: ...[council communism]] and was eventually expelled from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figure... - 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)
2: ... ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|fo...
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. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
5: ... in at the Israeli Cemetery of Caj? [[Rio de Janeiro]].
7: ...a poor woman in Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
21: *Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
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...
12: ...one-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." - 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: ...ctured synthetically; and also those of [[cholesterol]], [[lactoglobulin]], [[ferritin]], [[tobacco mo...
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. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...a.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala,...
3: ...xtremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical [[opera seria]], such as [[Gaspare Spo...
5: ...[1947]], Callas made her Italian debut at the [[Verona Arena]] in ''[[La Gioconda]]'' under the baton ...
7: ...ingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ... a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - 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".... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
2: ...r [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ...ed from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]] and went to college at the [[University of Texa...
6: ...cants]]. She was a heavy [[alcoholism|drinker]] throughout her career, and her trademark beverage was ...
8: ... where her bluesy vocal style saw her join [[Big Brother and The Holding Company]], a band that was ga...
10: ...'Monterey Pop'' captured [[Cass Elliott]] in the crowd silently mouthing "Wow, that's really heavy" du... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
4: ... with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...s later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to ...
7: ...wood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was des...
9: ... philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] i...
11: ...u]] production company, so the Arnazes toured the road in a [[vaudeville]] act with Lucille as the zan...
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