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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (of... - 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: Ad (7741 bytes)
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
63: *[[Richard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - 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... - 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... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazi...
3: ...n the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was under heavy...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life...
12: *O Lustre (1946)
17: *A Legi㯠Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion - 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. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ... piloted by [[Frank Hawks]] on [[December 28]], [[1920]]. She later joined her sister Muriel in [[Toront...
10: ... to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...ng [[Charles Lindbergh]]'s solo flight. However, strong north winds, icy conditions and mechanical pro...
16: ...36]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started...
22: ...signed to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide her to the island once she arrived... - 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...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920): - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
3: ...n=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
10: ... to [[Paris, France|Paris]] on [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flig...
16: ...bly because of a wrench that got stuck in the control gears. Coleman was killed instantly. Wills als... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...t contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
8: ...he basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...re and earned an international reputation on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions aft...
14: ===Discovery of the structure of DNA===
15: ...B form of DNA. Francis Crick has commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisi... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ... [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and al...
7: ...inest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Char...
9: ...son]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radical...
13: ...nued until her death in a [[road accident]] while travelling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, ... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...nting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], A...
2: ...tury]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]], became a...
7: ...the following years. In [[1420]], the [[Treaty of Troyes]] granted the throne to Henry V's heirs, disi...
10: ...Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...cumstances) and brought her through Burgundian-controlled territory to Chinon. She was said to have c... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[H...
4: ...842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
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). - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
3: ...5]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ...ildren born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]])....
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]). - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: [[Image:SuzanneLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labell...
3: ... Slam (tennis)|Grand Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tenni...
8: ...er decided to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would...
10: Only four years after her first tennis strokes, Lenglen played in the final of the [[1914 in...
14: ...nships were not held again until [[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[Wimbledon Championships]] were again... - Painting (4567 bytes)
68: *[[Abstract art|Abstract]]
69: *[[Constructivism]]
81: *[[Illustration]]
82: *[[Industry|Industrial]]
84: *[[Portrait]] - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
2: ...ection as the bellows'' whereas accordion buttons travel ''perpendicular to the direction of the bello...
6: ...different system may feel like an entirely new instrument.
10: ...free to operate an air valve (for expanding or contracting the bellows without sounding a note) or a d...
13: ...pically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the little fingers on metal finger rests, ...
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