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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
77: | [[1930]] — [[1932]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - 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. - 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
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
19: ...], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist - 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: ... elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ...woman elected to the [[United States Senate]]. (''see also: [[Rebecca Latimer Felton]]''). - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...d States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1...
5: ...ica|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and app...
9: ...outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...yde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johanne... - 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]]." - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...[[1910]]. In [[1914]] she went to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [...
5: ...vant-garde living there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]...
7: ...stian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
13: ...a's epicentre. Home of the caf頬ife in Montparnasse, it was Nina Hamnett's favourite hangout as well ...
15: ..., a tale of her bohemian life, which become a bestseller in the [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States... - 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. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature. - 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... - 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...
14: ... tight quarters ]]On the morning of [[May 20]], [[1932]], she took off from [[Saint John, New Brunswick]...
16: ...] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Loc... - 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... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ... the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding records stand to this day.
8: ...She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...enberg''s, they were never used in combat. (See [[Selbstopfer]])
12: ...o fly out the children of propaganda minister [[Joseph Goebbels]], who'd been living there with their ...
14: ...after the war, she was interrogated and then released. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ree, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A har...
9: ... responsible father. In the rare times Billie did see him, she would shake him down for money by threa...
14: ... Hammond was the first). Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-e...
16: ...around this time that Holiday had her first successes as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]...
20: ... white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that featured in her songs,... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...to black [[separatist]] [[Stokely Carmichael]] caused further controversy, especially in the United St...
5: ...s voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]).
7: == See also == - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
5: Their exploits, along with those of other criminals such as [[John Dillinger]] and...
9: ..., she told him they were through. Although he was sentenced to 5 years in prison shortly thereafter, t...
11: ...onal account of their crime spree and looming demise.
15: ...ssession of stolen goods (turkeys). In both of these instances there is the remote possibility that Cl...
19: ...obody thought it was anything special. Nobody guessed where it would lead."{{ref|knight}} - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...8]], [[2003]]) was an actress, a director, and subsequently a [[Nazi]]-era [[Germany|German]] [[filmma...
5: ... sex appeal suggested rather than shown. When presented with the opportunity to direct ''[[The Blue L...
7: ...about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day...
9: In [[1936]], Riefenstahl qualified to represent Germany in [[cross-country skiing]] in the [[19...
13: ...entration camp]] inmates on her film sets, but those claims could not be proved in court. In the end, ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (De...
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... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (19...
5: ...[Gaslight]]'' ([[1944]]). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her perfor...
7: ...s children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...known as ''H?onaten'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final ...
11: ...d [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She spe...
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