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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
6: ...[[Diogo de Azambuja]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[[Pêro de Alenquer]] ([[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: ...rancisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]])
9: ...onso de Albuquerque]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] naval explorer and [[viceroy]] of [[India]]) - November 4 (10686 bytes)
11: ...ty of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial Univers...
12: ...troops bombard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
24: ...lity Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]]s by belligerents.
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: ...[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: '''Annie Besant''' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosoph...
4: ...e both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with [[freedom ...
5: ...onversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]...
9: ...s Webster Leadbeater]] she investigated the universe, matter and the history of mankind through [[clai...
11: ... Buddhist revival activities on the subcontinent (see also: [[Maha Bodhi Society]]). - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ...following year, followed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...aw of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...n by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned ...
11: ... Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazi...
3: ...r [[James Joyce]], but she had read neither of these authors.
11: *Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
18: *A Paix㯠segundo G.H. (1964)
30: *Quase de Verdade (1978) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...'The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a pop...
9: ... but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inabi...
11: ...ure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driv...
13: ...at their estate [[Pickfair]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital proble...
15: ...he love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a message saying simply, "By the clock... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...elia from her father and his [[alcoholism]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his f...
8: ... employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up w...
10: ...y President [[Calvin Coolidge]] at the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhar...
16: ...] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Loc...
18: ...Pan Am]], where he helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hoped the res... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ned use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, and the tension in women's private emotio...
8: ...na's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...'s children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured Ana...
12: ... to several changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and G...
14: ...Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...athleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]. Millay rose to fame with her poem "[http://www.bartleby.com/1...
7: .... They lived in Austerlitz, New York, at a farmhouse they called Steepletop. The marriage was an [[ope...
9: ... during [[World War II]]. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary cri...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920): - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...plane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Coleman was married bri...
6: ...omen were better than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...y to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
10: ...: in seven months, she was granted a pilot's license.
12: In [[September]] of [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the United States. In... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...he fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ... father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped t...
8: ...e fine structure of coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the wa...
9: ...ough he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to Englan...
12: ...in arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. Th... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ...d a reputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
7: ...was signed by [[Columbia records]], and quickly rose to stardom as a headliner on the [[T. O. B. A.]] ...
9: ...s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radically dif...
11: ...almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie back ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...ing the [[World War I |First]] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[R...
7: ...t of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. France...
10: ... in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ... male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brought her through B...
16: ... [[Jean Gerson]], who both wrote supportive treatises immediately following this event. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral mem...
12: ...e the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establ...
16: ...the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was too old (at 34) for Sc... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: '''Greta Garbo''' ([[September 18]], [[1905]] – [[April 15]], [[199...
5: ...ildren born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]])....
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
17: ...o had an on-and-off affair with the primarily homosexual British photographer [[Cecil Beaton]], to who... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: [[Image:SuzanneLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labell...
3: ... (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis cel...
8: ...the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down a handkerchief at various...
10: ...[Marguerite Broquedis]] in a closely fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That sam...
14: ...Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in ... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...all. This is done by a [[painter]]; this term is used especially if this is his or her [[profession]]....
8: ...using [[red ochre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There ...
10: ''See also [[Art history]].''
39: *Heat-set oils
52: ...contemporary painting, though it continues to be used in popular contexts. - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
6: ...l common kinds. To player familiar with one of these "systems," a concertina of a different system may...
10: ...ed with the [[music of Ireland]], although it is used in other musical contexts as well. George Jones...
16: ...system''' concertinas, which are much more rarely seen than Anglo and English concertinas have button ...
24: ...a German concertina, with the keyboard layout devised by [[Heinrich Band]].
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