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  1. Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
    13: {{Taxobox section binomial botany | color = lightgreen | binom...
    18: ...ameter from 10-15 cm and has an [[acid]]ic yellow segmented pulp. The numerous [[cultivar]]s include t...
    20: ...roduced the [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
    24: ... and [[cyclosporine|cyclosporine A]]. Grapefruit seed extract is a strong [[antimicrobial]] with prov...
    30: ...s Northernmost Fruiting Grapefruit?] in the [[Chelsea Physic Garden]], london.
  2. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
    40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
    52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
    87: | [[Massachusetts]]
    88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
  3. History of China (45919 bytes)
    2: ...ation merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people today.
    7: ...nded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
    14: ... the ''Three Dynasties'' ([[Chinese language|Chinese]]: 三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) th...
    18: ...[Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
    22: ...g]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of...
  4. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    3: *[[Joseph M. Acaba|Acaba, Joseph M.]] (born 1967), first Puerto Rican Astronaut
    11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
    12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
    16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
    42: *[[Louise-Victorine Ackermann|Ackermann, Louise-Victorine]](1813-1890)
  5. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    20: *[[Amir Ageeb|Ageeb, Amir]], (1969-1999), Sudanese immigrant to Germany who died as a result of an d...
    30: ...stinho|Agostinho, Joaquim]], (1942-1984), Portuguese cyclist
    33: *[[Jose Miguel Agrelot|Agrelot, Jose Miguel]], (1927-2004), Puerto Rican entertainer
    37: ...cola|Agricola, Martin]], (1466-1506), German composer
    42: *[[Dries van Agt|Agt, Dries van]], (born 1931), Dutch prime minister
  6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    5: ...chinger, Gregor]], (circa 1565-1628), German composer
    9: ...ettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
    17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
    19: ...], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
    22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
  7. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    1: ...o serve as a [[United States Senate|United States Senator]].
    3: ...pg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
    5: ...erville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphreys County, Tennessee|Humphreys County]].
    9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
    11: ...woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]'').
  8. Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
    3: ...il War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federaci󮠁narquis...
    6: ...y]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent at...
    9: ... live with their sister Lena. Goldman worked for several years in a textile factory, and in 1887 marr...
    13: ...vement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry C...
    18: ... to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing.
  9. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...Isak Dinesen''' ([[April 17]], [[1885]] – [[September 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the ...
    5: ...oria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[F...
    7: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
    9: ...ndrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    19: * ''Seven Gothic Tales'' (1934 in USA, 1935 in Denmark)
  10. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
    4: ...1965]] she became a senior editor for [[Random House]] in New York City. She was also a professor at [...
    6: ... segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic ...
    12: ...almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing,...
    22: *''[[Paradise (novel)|Paradise]]'' (1999)
  11. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    11: ...de it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
    12: #That man must choose his values and actions by reason;
    13: ... neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
    14: ...seek values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
    19: ...which she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
  12. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and he...
    11: ...t of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
    15: ... a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
    19: ...arge circle of friends and tirelessly promoted herself. Her judgments in literature and art were highl...
    21: ... was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein rarely addressed his wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving...
  13. 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: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner...
    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...
  14. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    4: ...heffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flyi...
    8: ...e seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|Science Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] ...
    10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japa...
    12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[C...
    14: ...mous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a...
  15. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
    9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
    13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
    15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
    20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary...
  16. 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...
  17. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    5: In [[1943]] she joined the [[U.S. Naval Reserve]] and was assigned to work with [[Howard Aiken...
    7: ...st version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATI...
    9: ...s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
    12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Commander at the end of [[196...
  18. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
    3: ...prolific [[astronomy|astronomer]] noted for her research into [[globular cluster]]s, but best remember...
    5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
    7: ...io]] where she took a job at the [[David Dunlap Observatory]], where Frank Hogg became director in [[1...
    9: ...she published numerous papers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[19...
    17: ==See also==
  19. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    3: ...nhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. ...
    5: ...r with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]].
    7: ...ike the Earth spinning on its axis as the Earth itself is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the...
    9: ... some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise."
    11: ...ture''. [[1963]] saw both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for t...
  20. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
    3: ...1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] da...
    7: ...e]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a ...
    9: ... films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
    11: ... hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors.

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