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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
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20: | [[Little Rock, Arkansas|Little Rock]]
81: ...— [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
87: | [[Massachusetts]]
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ldest continuous major [[civilization]]s, with written records dating back at least 3,500 years, and w...
14: ... of the Grand Historian|Historical Records]]'' written by [[Sima Qian]], a renowned Chinese historiogr...
15: ...s.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipart]]]
18: ...but such claims are unsupported. With no clear written records to match the Shang [[oracle bones]] or ...
28: ...[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - Persepolis (15450 bytes)
8: ...ombs are cut, at a considerable height from the bottom of the valley. The modern Persians call this pl...
20: It has been universally admitted that "the palaces" or "the palace" burned down ...
26: ...hal procession, set fire to the palaces, and permitted women's hands in a minute to extinguish the fam...
30: ... live with armed men with more licence than was fitting.
31: ...n a drunken strumpet had given her opinion on a matter of such moment, one or two, themselves also loa... - China (38909 bytes)
30: ...n regarded as overly tyrannical it unified the written language in China and gave the supreme ruler of...
45: ...e first confirmed dynasty is the [[Shang]], who settled along the [[Huang He]] river, dating from the ...
47: ..., which lasted until the overthrow of [[Puyi]] in 1911.
53: ...econd major rebellion took place, although this latter uprising was considerably smaller than the cata...
55: ...anese War]], and the [[Chinese Civil War]]. The latter ended in 1949 with the [[Communist Party of Chi... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
24: ...[[Edwin Austin Abbey|Abbey, Edwin Austin]], (1852-1911), artist, painter
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 - Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
7: ...m he was constant for the rest of her life. His letters to her are among the most graphic of all the p...
14: ...ism to the concept of [[God]]. What makes the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' interesting is its presentat...
16: His speculation in the ''Lettre sur les aveugles'' was too hardy for the author...
23: ...he Englishman [[John Mills]], and the German, [[Gottfried Sellius]]. Diderot accepted the proposal, bu...
25: ... volume was given to the world. The last of the letterpress was issued in 1765, but it was 1772 before... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...SH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] Museum...
5: ...te occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her successors. Known for th...
13: ... [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from Mary to her aunt, who lived in [[Germany]...
30: ...chess of Gloucester|Lady Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott]] ([[25 December]] [[1901]] – [[29 October]...
38: ...nts in [[St. James's Palace]], [[London]]. York Cottage was a modest house for royalty, but was a favo... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
6: ...eeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
13: ...ted States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made ...
21: ... President several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchist...
24: ... as a tragic consequence of social conditions. In 1911, Goldman wrote in ''[[Mother Earth (magazine)|Mot...
25: ...working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."'' - 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 ...
54: *[http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/eliot/eliotov.htm... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...erebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, né¥ Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through ...
7: ...] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. De...
11: ...Irish-born silent-film actor, on [[January 7]], [[1911]]. The couple had numerous marital problems, name...
15: ..., saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral.
20: * [[1911]]: Majestic Film Corp. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
13: ... she received the [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry]], [[1911]] "in recognition of her services to the advancem...
17: ... raised a [[Catholic]], but that didn't seem to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the...
43: * [http://www.nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1903 1903... - Mahalia Jackson (2345 bytes)
1: '''Mahalia Jackson''' ([[October 29]], [[1911]]–[[January 13]], [[1972]]) was an [[Africa...
3: ...ales were sluggish at the time. ''Move on up a Little Higher'' ([[1948]]) became a huge success howev...
11: *[http://www.fembio.org/women/mahalia-jackson.shtml Bio... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
6: ...wers a small nunnery sprang up around her. Upon Jutta's death in [[1136]] Hildegard was chosen superio...
11: ...years Hildegard confided of her visions only to Jutta and another monk, named Volmar, who was to becom...
17: ...r was rather perfunctory, he did bring it to the attention of [[Pope_Eugenius_III|Pope Eugenius]] (114...
22: ...n almost any other medieval composer. Among her better known works is the ''Ordo Virtutum'' ("Order of...
26: ...edicinal use. Thus, "Reyan (tansy) is hot and a little damp and is good against all superfluous flowin... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: ...:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~1989)]]
2: '''Lucille Ball''' ([[August 6]], [[1911]] – [[April 26]], [[1989]]) was an [[United...
5: ... the shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks ...
7: ...yer for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never ach...
9: ...mediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking... - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
3: ...Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias''' ([[June 26]], [[1911]] in [[Port Arthur, Texas]] – [[September 2...
23: [http://web.archive.org/web/20040204121058/http://babedidricksonzaharias.org/ Official Site of t... - Retina (13061 bytes)
1: ...ction Illustration of the Human Eye courtesy of [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip Art]]] Man...
12: ...t 22 mm in diameter. At the centre of the retina attaches the optic nerve. This spot is known as the [...
14: ... potentials on their axons. This spatiotemporal pattern of spikes determines the raw input from the ey...
25: An image is produced by the "patterned excitation" of the retinal receptors, the co...
29: ...ctance of the membrane. The amount of neurotransmitter released is reduced in bright light and increas... - Cornet (3752 bytes)
7: ...e brass band sound and can be most effective in cutting through even the biggest climax.
11: ...s a public domain image from Webster's Dictionary 1911]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
13: | place of death=[[Quincy]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...rated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boyl...
24: ...[[James Otis]] in the superior court of Massachusetts as to the legality of [[Writs of Assistance]]. O...
26: ...gregational]] minister at [[Weymouth]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[176... - Prime Meridian (3211 bytes)
15: ...ench did not adopt the Greenwich meridian until [[1911]].
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