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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
161: | [[1895]] — [[1904]]
189: | [[1785]] — [[1790]], [[1904]] — [[1906]] (wings) - 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. - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...g by the Qin emperor ([[2nd century BC|200 BC]]) strengthened the Chinese civilization. Politically, C...
7: ...s, and to support specialist craftsmen and administrators: in short, civilization as we know it. In la...
18: ...nnect the Xia to excavations at [[Erlitou]] in central [[Henan]] province, where a bronze smelter from...
28: ...mi-feudal system. Nevertheless, power became decentralized during the [[Spring and Autumn Period]] whe...
30: ...aoning]], and governed under the new local administrative system of [[commandery]] and [[prefecture]] ... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ... fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maide...
8: ...rties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put t...
14: ...stria]], and [[Russia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and...
21: ...ection. Luxemburg wanted to organise a [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and pre...
23: Between [[1904]] and [[1906]] her work was interrupted by three ... - 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.
18: Shortly after her triumphs with the [[impressionism|impressionists]], ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes...
25: ...gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actress who was the producer of her own films. - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
5: ...''[[Romance of the Rose]]'' and argued against restrictions on female education and inheritance of lan...
9: ...blic]], in [[Paris]], where he held office as [[astrologer]] to King [[Charles V of France|Charles V]]...
15: ...on on New Year's Day, [[1404]]. It possesses an introduction of great autobiographical interest. In ''...
17: ...with two great scholars of her time, [[Jean de Montreuil]] (d. 1415) and [[Gonthier Col]], who underto...
19: ...e des dames''. She was devoted to her adopted country. During the civil wars she wrote a ''Lamentation... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...meist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to p...
10: ...ughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...l changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German lang...
14: ...ing Album'', was self-published in [[1910]]. It attracted the attention of the poet and critic [[Maxim... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do...
20: ...ett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers treatment of the incestuous sexual abuse Woolf suffe... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...s her senior. Young Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers a...
14: ... job as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D....
17: :"''As a patriot he bade me serve my country with all I had, even with my life if need be; as...
21: ...Finally, in July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines, eventually reaching some of...
23: ...he Union army, and while engaged in this work she traced the fate of 30,000 men. As the War ended, she... - Painting (4567 bytes)
68: *[[Abstract art|Abstract]]
69: *[[Constructivism]]
81: *[[Illustration]]
82: *[[Industry|Industrial]]
84: *[[Portrait]] - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instruments with very high tessituras. Pitched in F, a ...
3: ...ine Alpensinfonie]]. Named the terz-heckelphone, Strauss ultimately did not score for it and only a si...
5: ...a [[saxophone]]), giving it a characteristically strong and powerful tone.
7: ...ssary. Thirdly, they were only ever produced in extremely small numbers, with production ceasing altog...
9: ...rument museum. Of the rest, some may have been destroyed in the second world war, or may be in the han... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
14: ...ia|Gov.]] [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], born in [[Austria]]; [[Florida]] [[United States Senate|Sen.]] [[...
21: ... the oath — and even judges of [[federal district court]]s have fulfilled this duty in emergenci...
23: ...ugural address which sets the tone for his administration.
25: ...es)|Election Day]] and campaigning across the country to explain their views and plans to the voters. ...
29: ...e chosen to affirm rather than swear. The oath is traditionally ended with, "So help me God," although... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
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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> - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...ic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city ...
3: ...diæval Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long dec...
19: ...[[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are extremely numerous and varied, and much influenced by ...
23: ...nd the sea, according to a history of Alexander attributed to the author known as [[Alexander Romance|...
25: ...t became a famous tourist destination for ancient travellers. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ck Hills]] of [[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age ...
4: ... calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched far into the past before the arrival of hum...
9: ...ury]], a few [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scien...
11: ...-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte du Buffon]] tried to obtain a value for the age of the Earth usi... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
6: ...though legends and speculation about a [[Terra Australis]] ("Southern Land") go back to antiquity, the...
15: ...h. [[Weather pattern|Weather front]]s rarely penetrate far into the continent, leaving the center col...
26: See also: [[Extreme points of Antarctica]]
30: ...ce due to the [[Antarctic Treaty System|Antarctic Treaty]] which came into effect in 1961, but continu...
32: ...and, which is the northern limit of the Antarctic treaty. The southern border of all sectors collapses... - Samoa (9435 bytes)
1: ...or '''Samoa''' (conventional short form) is a country comprising a group of [[island]]s in the South [...
31: ...s by area|Ranked 165th]] <br> 2944 [[square kilometre|km²]] <br> 0.3%
34: | [[List_of_countries_by_population|Ranked 173rd]]<br>177,714<br><br...
51: | '''[[List_of_country_calling_codes|Calling Code]]'''
57: .... Western Samoa was the first Pacific Island country to gain its independence. - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...]]) to [[Zaire]], until 1997. Since 1998, the country has suffered greatly from the devastating and [[...
8: {{Infobox Country |
19: government_type = transitional |
44: time_zone = [[Central European Time|CET]], [[Eastern European Time|EE...
50: ...e is based on regression; other PPP figures are extrapolated from the latest International Comparison ... - Flag of Maryland (3908 bytes)
3: ...]. It was officially adopted by [[Maryland]] in [[1904]].
13: ...(Chapter 48, Acts of 1904, effective [[March 9]], 1904). In [[1945]], the legislature made a gold cros...
20: ...s arms terminating in trefoils, with the coloring transported, red being on the white ground and white...
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