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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...a explorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technolog...
26: ...rich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa
29: *[[George Bass]] - [[Australia]]n explorer
30: ...isited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]], [[Tomboucto...
31: ... [[France|French]] explorer, mapped the West [[Australia]]n coastline. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
17: ...badie|Abbadie, Antoine Thomson d']], (1810-1897), traveler
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
71: ...Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
91: *[[Abhijeet Kale]], [[cricketer]] from [[Maharashtra]], [[India]], in the center of a selection scam - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
9: ...a|Victorian Era]] was at the height of the [[Industrial Revolution]], a period of great social, econom...
12: ...e king. At the age of fifty the Duke of Kent and Strathearn married [[Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld...
16: ... that Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent and Strathearn, would act as Regent during the queen's mi...
18: ... Victoria may have been, theirs proved to be an extremely happy marriage.
27: ...able to cope with the problems overseas, the ministry of Lord Melbourne resigned. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
4: ...edom of thought]], [[women's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]...
5: ...to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writ...
9: ...sturbate]]. At the time such advice was highly controversial. He had to leave the Theosophical Society...
11: ...r activities on "The Aryavarta", as she called central [[India]]. Besant actively courted Hindu opini...
15: ...sant's spirit, as it went against her ideals. She tried to accommodate Krishnamurti's views into her l... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...ment that valued education. Her parents believed travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 yea...
6: ...nnsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patronizing instructors and fellow male students, and the slow pace...
8: ...int copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe.
12: ...d that her colors were too bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
16: She met [[Edgar Degas]] in [[1874]], and he invited her to exhibit with the [[impre... - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
8: ...began to live with [[George Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
19: ...chological insight and sophisticated character portraits.
21: ...as sharp in pointing out the hypocrisy of the country squires and socially conscious. ''[[Felix Holt,...
23: ... style and clarity of thought. Eliot's sentence structures are clear, patient, and well balanced, and...
40: * ''[[Arion (novel)|Arion]]'' (1874) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
8: * ''B颩e'' (1874) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wood...
17: * ''A Lemon Tree'' (1894)
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874)
29: * ''Strathmore'' (1865) - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
9: ...in_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
1: ... [[mathematician]] and a student of [[Karl Weierstrass]] in [[Berlin]]. In [[1881]] she was appointed...
3: ...ther was [[Vasily Vasilievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''...
5: ...[Fyodor Ivanovich Schubert]] (mathematician and astronomer of the [[St Petersburg Academy of Sciences]...
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of [[partial different...
11: ...a spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the strange scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuc... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
5: ... Andrews]] University, and at the [[Edinburgh]] Extra-Mural school. She had no less difficulty in gai...
9: ...ely by medical women, and the schools (in Hunter Street, WC) having over 200 students, most of them pr...
11: ..., extended in her lifetime to every civilized country except Spain and Turkey. She died in [[1917]]. - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: '''Helena Petrovna Hahn''' ([[July 31]], [[1831]] ([[Julian cale...
5: ...s botanist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a ...
7: ...th [[Italians|Italian]] [[opera]] singer Agardi Metrovich. In [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] ...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a la...
15: ...late the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric spiritual know... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[H...
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
10: ...zen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug t...
12: ...ra -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
16: ...le-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face). - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...in [[New York City]], [[United States]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
4: ...ropolitan Theater then at the [[Tony Pastor]] Theatre, a popular New York City music hall.
6: ...to make her [[London]] stage debut at Toole's Theatre in August of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight ...
8: ... [[Broadway]] show ''[[The Widow Jones]]'', she introduced "The Bully Song" which became her signature...
14: ...ing to a farm near [[Clayton, New York]] where a street would eventually be named in her honor. - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...resdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
6: ...April 4]], [[1841]] - [[March 4]], [[1845]]</td></tr>
7: ...owed:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr> - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...[[Image:Millard Fillmore.jpg|250px|]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>13th President</td></tr>
6: ...[July 9]], [[1850]] - [[March 4]], [[1853]]</td></tr>
7: ...>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Zachary Taylor]]</td></tr> - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
44: ...he [[Confederate States of America]], and took control of U.S. forts and other properties within their...
48: ...akness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the [[New Deal]...
50: ...though is criticized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power.
53: ...site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, [[canoe]]ing down the Sangamon...
59: ...Sangamon in the hopes of attracting [[steamboat]] traffic to the river, which would allow sparsely pop... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: <tr><td style="background:#efefef;" align="center" co...
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
6: ...4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1877]]</td></tr>
7: ...>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[Andrew Johnson]]</td></tr> - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...age:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>
7: 24th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td>
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