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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]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing...
197: | [[1924]] — [[1932]] - 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. - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...n ([[1973]]–[[1974]]), director of the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] ([[1976]]–[[197...
24: ...setts]] from [[1936]] to [[1942]], where he demonstrated early leadership, capta - 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
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dune...
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. - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
20: ...Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz life and they l...
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...
57: ...ike the one I'm faced with now in leading the country."—Golda Meir, when elected as the first fe... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...paigner, concentrating much of her energy on the struggle to improve women's opportunities for higher ...
7: ... British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name ... - 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... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
4: ... often transformed the subject into a powerful abstract image.
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.
12: ...in ill health, was uncomfortable with travel. Her trips west gave her the solitude she required to pur... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...ce" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|American]] [[philosopher]...
19: ... Party of the Soviet Union|Communist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There i...
22: ...er basic living-expenses. While working as an [[extra]] on [[Cecil B. DeMille]]'s ''[[King of Kings]]'...
26: ...mpany]] publishing house. Despite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringi...
31: ...]] of egoism and individualism. Rand also had a strong dislike for [[mysticism]], [[religion]], and c... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ...After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a ...
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... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ... moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...Here she developed a model for the nuclear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize i...
7: ...is like a series of closed shells and pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is...
9: ...wise while circling counterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; som...
11: ... "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning the ... - 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...
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 [[...
29: ... and her unashamed use of low-key sex appeal to attract converts, endeared her to her crowd of followe... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[H...
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).
18: ...n Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award f... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...5]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
7: ==Becoming an actress==
8: ...ast her in a small part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...ajor role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He als...
12: ...wyn-Mayer]], he insisted that Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...orwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and actress.
4: ...er Olympics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rin...
10: ...he mostly performed in the United States, but had triumphant shows in Norway in [[1953]] and [[1955]]....
12: ...at formed the basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]].
14: ...the hilltop overlooking the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]]. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
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...
20: ...les championship every year with the exception of 1924. Health problems due to her asthma which had alre...
24: ...S Open]] championships. That year, to raise reconstruction funds for the regions of France that had be... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: [[Image:Train.calcot.grange.750pix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Gr...
3: ...e payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...led from a control cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
8: ... reasons why the motive power for trains has been traditionally isolated in a locomotive, rather than ...
11: * ''Safety'' - it is often safer to locate the train's power systems away from passengers. This was...
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