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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
205: | [[1886]] — [[1890]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - 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]] ... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
41: ...is Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president o...
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 - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
16: ...he joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and be...
20: ...r duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen....
22: ...her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time.
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's...
42: ... governing coalition, and serious questions over strategic misjudgments and general lack of leadership... - 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...
24: * [[1915]]: worked for various companies, $1000 to $2000 a... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...rst novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[1915]]. This novel was originally titled "Melymbrosia,...
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... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: '''Billie Holiday''' ([[April 7]], [[1915]] – [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''...
7: ...r house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her mother, Sadie Fagan, was just thirteen ...
9: There is controversy regarding Holliday's paternity. This stems ...
16: ...performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
20: ...s like that". Even when she was young and singing trivial pop songs, her unique tone and emotional com... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
9: ...s a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[tee...
13: ...sembarked in [[Hong Kong]], however, they both contracted [[malaria]]. Robert Semple died of the disea...
19: ...aching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching f...
25: ... her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for...
27: ...the Foursquare Gospel church. She supervised construction of a large, domed church building in the [[... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ... except for a period of [[1890]]-[[1900]] in [[Australia]] and some short visitations to [[Europe]].
5: ... writer in the history of literature and the most translated American author of either gender. Her wri...
11: ...istian Church (the Body of Christ) and did not contribute to the unity among Christians. She even cons...
17: ...ce with a rock thrown by another school girl. The trauma put her in a coma for three weeks, and gave h...
29: ...n decision making, in forming [[policy]] and [[doctrine]], as well as for [[devotional]] material. - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] i...
7: ...o [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, SOE trained her as a wireless operator in preparation fo...
9: ...ered great hardship from exposure, cold, and malnutrition.
11: Eventually shipped to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]], sometime between January 25 and Febr... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
2: ...e [[National Portrait Gallery, London|National Portrait Gallery]], [[London]]]]
5: ...''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World W...
7: ...ropaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell.htm].
9: ...ribed on her statue in St. Martin's Place, near [[Trafalgar Square]] in [[London]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: Countess '''Krystyna Skarbek''' ([[May 1]], [[1915]] - [[June 15]], [[1952]]) was a [[Poland|Polish-...
7: ... she falteringly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to business...
9: ...h courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifl...
11: ...ntelligence]]. Krystyna showed her penchant for stratagem when they were arrested by the German [[Ges...
15: ...], during their flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...demy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...e film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of...
7: ...llini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...ard for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]) for her performance in ''[[Murder on the Or... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...t-Nadar.jpg|thumb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: ...h 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...y the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]] for theatrical training.
6: ..."; arguably, she may have been the most famous actress of the [[19th century]].
8: Although primarily a stage actress, Bernhardt made several cylinders and discs of... - 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... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...[[guitar]]. In the early [[20th century]], the instrument's name was often rendered as "ukelele", a sp...
3: ... strings of the raj㯠are the source of the re-entrant tuning of the modern ukulele.
5: ... the Ukulele" returned to the ukulele to its ancestral home of Madeira Island off the coast of North A...
7: ...d Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...s [[pitch (music)|pitch]]ed between the E- and A-strings. In the past, it was not uncommon for the sop... - 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... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ... activity]], [[mountain]]-building, and [[oceanic trench]] formation occur along plate boundaries (mos...
5: ...development of the [[periodic table]] for [[chemistry]], the discovery of the [[genetic code]] for [[g...
10: ...tures like mountains, [[volcano]]es and [[oceanic trench]]es. The majority of the world's active volca...
17: ... plates is therefore either [[sinistral]] or [[dextral]].
23: === Transform (conservative) boundaries === - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...the [[European Union]], and has a [[developed country|developed economy]] and an approximate populatio...
6: {{Infobox Country |
40: established_dates = From [[United Kingdom|UK]] by treaty<br>[[21 January]] [[1919]]<br>[[6 December]] ...
58: ...''Ireland'' is used for official purposes such as treaties, government and legal documents and members...
67: ...The war at that stage was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For ...
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