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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
37: | [[1933]]
40: | [[Tallahassee, Florida|Tallahassee]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - 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
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
9: ...ettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
19: ...], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...erving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled ar...
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... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
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]]). - 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... - 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... - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...ent Millay, photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1933]]'''Edna St. Vincent Millay''' ([[February 22]], ...
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... - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...[1977]]. In [[1960]] she was appointed Wolfson Research Professor at the [[Royal Society]]. In [[196...
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...th century]], with penetrating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formal...
8: ...ague, [[David Hilbert]], had to advertise her courses in the
9: ...emic senate. Said Hilbert, "I do not see that the sex of the candidate is against
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: ...ntals of modern physics, which is substantially based on the properties of symmetries. - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: ... the first test, called the [[Apgar Score]], to assess the health of [[neonate|newborn]] [[baby|babies... - 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: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
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,... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [...
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 ... - 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}} - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
5: ...mature into a nonconformist. She was cared for by servants who believed in the many superstitions of O...
7: ... with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraud...
9: ...] of how they work rather than performing them herself.
11: ...omena. Soon they were living together in the "Lamasery" (alternate spelling: "Lamastery") where her wo...
13: ...hat this marriage was not consummated either. She separated from Betanelly after a few months, and the... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
1: ...150px|Photograph of McPherson]]<BR><small>''Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)''</small></center></div...
3: ... simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1920s]] and [[1930s]], founder of...
7: ... her terminal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the cou...
9: ...the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christ...
11: ...[[Image:Semples.jpeg]]<small><br>Robert and Aimee Semple, 1910</small></div> - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
1: '''Elise Rivet''' born [[January 19]], [[1890]], in [[Drar...
3: ...ide refugees from the [[Gestapo]] and eventually used her convent to store weapons and ammunition for ...
5: ...amber including a weakened and starving Mother Elise Rivet, on [[March 30]],[[1945]] only weeks before...
7: ...M餡ille des Justes]] and in 1999 the "''Salle Elise Rivet''" was named for her at the [[Institut des ... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
3: ... became one of over 800,000 women in the military service in a huge way by founding three female air r...
5: ...in a number of long distance records. Most of these record flights occurred in [[1937]] and [[1938]],...
7: ...a Grizodubova]]. From the start, the goal was to set an international women's record for a straight-l...
9: ...to find an airfield due to poor visibility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the re...
11: ...ilots, but the support staff and engineers for these regiments. This military unit was initially call...
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