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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)
109: | [[1896]] — [[1902]], [[1909]] — [[1912]] (wings added)
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. - 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]] ... - China (38909 bytes)
1: ...ng2.jpg|thumb|250px|The [[Great Wall of China]], stretching over 6,700 km, was erected beginning in th...
5: ...e establishment of the [[Republic of China]] in [[1912]]; however the next four decades were marred by w...
7: ...orld War II. Since then the ROC has maintained control over Taiwan and the [[Pescadores]], islands off...
14: ...e centre of her known world, surrounded by lesser tributary states.
16: ...although being continually redefined while the central political influence expanded territorially, and... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - List of people by name: Ae (1061 bytes)
5: ...ois Lexa von]], (1854-1912), [[Austria-Hungary|Austria-Hungarian]] statesman - Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
2: | [[Image:Elizabeth_I_(Ermine_Portrait).jpg|thumb|right|220px|'''Elizabeth I''' <br><...
9: ...r]]s to several famous organizations, including [[Trinity College, Dublin]] ([[1592]]) and the [[Briti...
16: ...treason (adultery against the King was considered treason), incest with her elder brother, and witchcr...
18: ...ll-being, particularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker b...
20: ...zabeth also inherited her mother's delicate bone structure, physique and facial features. Luckily, she... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
3: ...lign=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ... Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], bec...
8: ... re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman me...
10: ...and her husband had protested to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime M...
12: ...tic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The ... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
9: ... [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] in [[1912]] and served in that office until [[1921]] when h...
15: ... Populist [[Louisiana]] politician [[Huey Long]] travelled to Arkansas on a 9-day campaign swing to c...
25: Hattie Caraway suffered a stroke in early [[1950]] and died in [[Falls Church, ... - 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...
27: ...sm and [[Economics]] at the SPD party training centre in Berlin. One of her students was the later lea... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...olitical Union]] (WSPU) swelled following their [[trial]]. Emmeline began to take more [[militant]] ac...
7: ...ee from the [[University of Manchester]]. Between 1912 and 1913 she lived in [[Paris, France]] to escape... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
7: ...t|Christabel]] and her mother Emmeline. But in contrast to them she retained her interest in the labou...
9: In [[1912]] she broke with the WSPU over the group's promot...
11: ...The CP(BSTI) was opposed to parliamentarism in contrast to the views of the newly founded [[Communist ...
19: She died in 1960, and was buried in front of Trinity Cathedral in [[Addis Ababa]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...n opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]...
5: ...n [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the...
7: ...h outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...trol Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health for the [[United States ...
11: ...ided basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sex... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ... one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
7: ...olay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
11: ...va was effectively silenced, unable to publish poetry, between 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval b...
16: ...p://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poetry in MP3 format]
18: ..._great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - 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...
21: * [[1912]]: back to Biograph - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27...
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]]
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who ...
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp... - 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... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...irst woman to receive the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional and...
3: ...y.com/131/1.html Renascence]" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar ...
5: ...was attained. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poem...
9: Her reputation was damaged by poetry she wrote in support of the Allied war effort du...
22: ... two great attractions: the skyscraper and the poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay.
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