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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
37: | [[1933]]
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
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: Ai (1915 bytes)
8: *[[Danny Aiello|Aiello, Danny]], (born 1933), US actor
9: *[[ɴienne Aignan|Aignan, ɴienne]], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright...
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: ...|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: ...eorge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...ted States promoting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. Sh...
5: ...st Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...y cold woman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Ro...
16: ...osevelt's sexuality continues to be a topic of controversy. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[October 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[w...
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... - 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. - 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]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...[[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's lic...
6: ...this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...ence Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
16: ... South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridg... - 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. - 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... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
5: ... achievement took her 34 years, having started in 1933.
7: ...1964]] she was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]] for her work in crystallography and in [[1976]...
11: ...enny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Molecules of Biological Interes...
14: *Dodson, Guy (Structure 2: 891-893, 1994)
17: ...n, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biology'' 1: 573-576, 1994) - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...ting insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
9: ...sy ensued, with her opponents asking what the country's soldiers would think when they returned home a...
10: ... Noether was forced to flee [[Nazi]] Germany in [[1933]] and joined the faculty at [[Bryn Mawr]] in the ...
12: ... is substantially based on the properties of symmetries.
14: In [[1921]], Noether introduced the [[ascending chain condition]] for [[ide... - Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
1: ...th. She graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1933.
3: In 1953, she introduced the first test, called the [[Apgar Score]],... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
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 ...
14: ...-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
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... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...wn act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in t...
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...
11: ...s appearing in a [[Philadelphia]] night club in [[1933]] when [[John P. Hammond|John Hammond]] asked her...
13: ...nued until her death in a [[road accident]] while travelling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, ... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
3: ...ere famous [[bank robber]]s who traveled the [[central United States]] during the [[Great Depression]]...
11: Often portrayed as Clyde Barrow's equal in crime, Bonnie's ro...
15: ...far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Barrow gang.
19: ... Cliff]]. "A bored, lonely, young, out-of-work waitress, abandoned by her imprisoned husband, goes ove...
27: ...[mule]]s for transportation in the Texas farm country. Clyde escaped, and Bonnie and Fults were arrest... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: '''Helena Petrovna Hahn''' ([[July 31]], [[1831]] ([[Julian cale...
5: ...s botanist. Both her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a ...
7: ...th [[Italians|Italian]] [[opera]] singer Agardi Metrovich. In [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] ...
15: ...late the divine knowledge had corrupted it in the translation. Her claim that esoteric spiritual know...
21: ...complications from [[influenza]], Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky died at her home May 8, [[1891]]. H... - 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... - Elise Rivet (1599 bytes)
3: ...sters, "Notre Dame de Compassion" in [[Lyon]]. In 1933 she became "M貥 Marie Elisabeth de l'Eucharistie...
5: ...ntration camp]] near [[Berlin, Germany]]. There, stripped of her religious garments, she was forced in...
7: ...people on stamps of France|postage stamp]] and a street bearing her name in [[Brignais]] (Lyon) was in... - Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
5: ...come a navigator in the [[Soviet Air Force]] in [[1933]]. A year later she started teaching at the Zhuko...
7: ... the flight took 26 hours and 29 minutes, over a straight line distance of 5,947 km (total distance of...
9: ...bility. Because the navigator's cockpit had no entrance to the rest of the plane and was vulnerable i...
11: ...e three regiments received training. After their training, the three regiments received their formal ...
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