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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
25: | [[1860]] through [[1874]]
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
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23: ...n]], founded Darién, oldest surviving European settlement in the South American continent.
27: *[[Robert Bartlett]] ([[1875]]-[[1946]]), notable Arctic explorer
30: *[[Ibn Battuta|Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Battuta]], ([[1304]]?-[[1377]]?), [[Morocco|Moroccan]]...
32: *[[Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen]], [[Russians|Russian]] ex... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
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11: ...of Washington]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate States of Ame...
25: * [[1942]] - World War II: [[Second Battle of El Alamein]] - Disobeying a direct order by ...
38: * [[1995]] - After attending a peace rally in [[Tel Aviv]]'s Kings Squar... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
21: *[[Abbas II]], (1874-1944), khedive of Egypt
33: *[[Bud Abbott|Abbott, Bud]], (1895-1974), US actor
34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
35: *[[Diane Julie Abbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
36: *[[Edwin Abbott Abbott|Abbott, Edwin Abbott]], (1838-1926), British schoolmaster & theologian - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...ria''' (Alexandrina Victoria [[Wettin (dynasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([...
12: ...e-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of Belgium|Prince Leopold ...
20: ...s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Windsor]].)
37: ...acy was behind the assassination attempt; others attributed the plot to supporters of the heir-presump...
43: ...as commuted, another boy, [[John William Bean]], attempted to shoot the Queen. Although his gun was lo... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...50px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
9: ...death of the previous president [[Henry Steel Olcott]].
11: ...a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Buddhism in Ceylon, a...
13: ...ddu Krishnamurti]] on the private beach that was attached to the societies headquarters at Adyar. Kris...
15: ...t him and of which he had been made the leader. [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/kr/star.htm] This des... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...25px|''The Child's Bath (The Bath)''. [[Mary Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of ...
2: '''Mary Stevenson Cassatt''' ([[May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1...
4: ...as the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. Cassatt grew up in an environment that valued education. ...
8: ...ed to Europe in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintin...
12: ...ight and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject. - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: '''Mary Ann Evans''', better known by the [[pen name]] '''George Eliot''' ([...
5: ...ife from public scrutiny and to prevent scandals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]...
10: ...Evans' cohabitation with Lewes was a scandalous matter. Lewes' wife refused to be divorced, and so he...
23: ...l balanced, and she mixes plain statement and unsettling irony with rare poise. Her commentaries are ...
40: * ''[[Arion (novel)|Arion]]'' (1874) - Ouida (1938 bytes)
3: ...r many years she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
8: ...hed with the title ''Two Little Wooden Shoes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 Gutenberg etext ...
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367 Gutenberg etext o...
25: * ''Pascarel'' (1874)
31: * ''Under Two Flags'' (1867) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/3465 Gutenberg etext ... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States...
7: ...egheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then...
19: ...'', with walls covered by avant-garde paintings, attracted many of the great artists and writers inclu...
34: ...to write in earnest: novels, plays, stories, librettos and poems. Increasingly, she developed her own ...
37: ... comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle." - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...8]] he was permitted to change his surname to [[Matthias Corvinus of Hungary|Korvin]]-Krukovsky.
9: ... (Beethoven)|''Pathetique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Ann... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: '''Elizabeth Garrett Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 Dece...
5: ...n in [[1836]], and the sister of [[Millicent Fawcett]]. Elizabeth was educated at home and at a priva...
7: ...nto the New hospital for women, and there Dr Garrett worked for over twenty years. In 1870 she obtain...
9: ...hich was opened to women in 1877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglia... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...- [[May 8]], [[1891]] [[London]], [[England]]), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Bl...
7: ...iete Spirite for [[occult]] phenomena with Emma Cutting (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissa...
11: In [[1874]], Helena met [[Henry Steel Olcott]]; he was a lawyer, agricultural expert, and jour...
15: ...ernal conventional manifestations. Imperfect men attempting to translate the divine knowledge had corr...
21: ...], and one third to India where her ashes were scattered in the [[Ganges River]]. [[May 8]] is celebra... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...es|Congressman]] [[William Brockman Bankhead]] ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Dem...
8: ...ther minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: ...t choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...he played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York ... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
4: ...ed in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed...
10: ...ongs, including "Hot Tamale Alley," with music written by [[George M. Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her...
14: ...ousand Islands]] and at her winter home on [[Merritt Island, Florida]] before retiring to a farm near ... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
42: ...yler ([[December 6]], [[1830]] - [[January 8]], [[1874]]).
67: ...ng [[Shays' Rebellion]]. He ended his published letter.
111: ...|Attorney General]]||align="left"|'''[[John J. Crittenden]]'''||align="left"|1841
138: === States Admitted to the Union ===
161: *[http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources... - Millard Fillmore (12296 bytes)
11: ...r><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[March 8]], [[1874]]</td></tr>
20: ...'' ([[January 7]], [[1800]] – [[March 8]], [[1874]]) was the thirteenth ([[1850]]–[[1853]]) [[...
26: ..., New York]] to continue his studies. He was admitted to the bar in [[1823]] and began his practice o...
39: ...tension of slavery, without any progress toward settling the major issues.
48: *Settle the Texas boundary and compensate her. - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
42: ...' and nicknamed '''Honest Abe''', the '''Rail Splitter''', and the '''Great Emancipator''', was the 16...
46: ...f the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in [[1862]], in his...
48: ...tes. He also encouraged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the [[Hom...
53: ...t year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from Ne...
59: ...nal improvements on the Sangamon in the hopes of attracting [[steamboat]] traffic to the river, which ... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
24: Grant won many important battles, rose to become general-in-chief of all [[Unio...
39: ...ttle of Molino del Rey | Molino del Rey]] and [[Battle of Chapultepec | Chapultepec]]. On [[July 31]],...
41: ...rnor felt that a West Point man could be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st I...
43: ...ous reverse into a victory in the second day of battle. His strategy in the campaign to capture the ri...
45: ...forces besieged in [[Battle of Chattanooga III|Chattanooga, Tennessee]], decisively beating [[Braxton ... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
31: ... when many politicians were neither, but he had little imagination and seemed overwhelmed by the natio...
40: ...r child, who was named Oscar Folsom Cleveland, in 1874 (Halpin was involved with several men at the time...
46: Cleveland himself admitted that, as President, his greatest accomplishment...
50: ...d the [[Interstate Commerce Act]], the first law attempting Federal regulation of the railroads.
62: ...lump was preserved and is on display at the [[M�tter Museum]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philad...
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