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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...hat a ship could reach the [[Far East]] via a westward course.
3: ...ccepted that the earth was round. The main debate was over whether it would be possible to get around ...
5: ... than two decades later, the existence of America was known to the general public throughout Europe. T...
13: It has generally been accepted that he was [[Genoa|Genovese]], although doubts have persist...
15: ...y many contemporaries as a poor administrator and was stripped of his governorship in [[1500]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...twerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
11: ...ton]] opens in [[Seattle, Washington|Seattle]], [[Washington]] as the Territorial University
12: * [[1864]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Johnsonville]] - [[Confederate St...
15: ...ajority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emperor]].
16: ... first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stoc... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai...
45: ...ams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez... - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
12: *[[Howard Aiken|Aiken, Howard]], (1900-1973), computing pioneer
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
26: *[[Queen Aiswarya|Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese q... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...[[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the promi...
4: ...son Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while a...
6: ... Viscount Astor|Waldorf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson of ...
8: ...g until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actually take her seat...
10: ...h criticism of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and he... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: ...Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]]]]
2: ...he moved back to Israel after graduate school and was never a U.S. citizen).
6: ...family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
10: ...store for a short time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market.
12: ...e went to Denver, where her older sister, Sheyna, was living. Here she met Morris Myerson, a sign pai... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
2: ...tober 1]], [[1847]] - [[September 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's...
4: ...[[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
9: ...cal Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into the fold through the agency of B...
11: ...nion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Ol...
13: ...Adyar|Theosophical Society in Adyar]], as the boy was proposed as the incarnate vessel for the Christ.... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...n]] in Berlin in January, [[1919]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed b...
6: ...iden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...ur of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet i...
12: ...nd the [[Social Democratic Party of Germany|SPD]] was legally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]....
14: ...Julius Karski), she founded the newspaper ''[[Sprawa Robotnicza]]'' ("The Workers' Cause"), in opposit... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...women in the period immediately preceding [[World War I]].
5: ...tantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...s a result. Her autobiography, ''My Own Story'', was published in [[1914]]. She died ten years after... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known ...
5: ... through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of...
7: ...B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that...
9: ...era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired fro...
11: ...eir love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the c... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...nstitute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...al breakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish...
7: ...races of some unknown radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[Dec...
9: ...ium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity....
11: ...nri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...hristmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American [[teacher]], [[nurse]], and ...
6: ...ere all at least 10 years her senior. Young Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said t...
8: ...ing the "great, loathsome crawling leeches." This was an early indication of what would become Clara's...
12: ...own, where her brother owned a factory. After she was invited to teach in a private school in [[Borden...
14: ... Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the ins and out... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross ...
6: ...Nurses where she remained until [[1909]] when she was made Superintendent of the United States Army Nu...
8: ...entered [[World War I]]. During the course of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital rol...
10: ... the 296 nurses who lost their lives during World War I.
12: ...play of personal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing ... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...daa" meaning "subduer of the enemies". This title was given to the city as many armies were destroyed ...
11: ...0617.jpg|thumb|left|200px|This Envisat ASAR Wide-Swath radar multicolour composite image is focused ov...
18: Extensive water systems have also allowed the city to expand e...
20: ...ies were Cairo's ancient predecessors, when Cairo was still in this approximate geographical location.
26: ...], which was the capital of [[Ancient Egypt]] and was founded in around [[3100 BC]] by [[Menes]] of [[... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[George Washington]]
18: ... United States]]. His son, [[John Quincy Adams]], was the sixth President of the United States ([[1825...
22: ...o [[Massachusetts]] in about [[1636]]; his mother was Susanna Boylston Adams.
24: ...se of the American colonies. Years later, when he was an old man, Adams undertook to write out, at len...
26: ...h]], Massachusetts. Their son, John Quincy Adams, was born in [[1767]]. - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
29: ...political domination between the [[American Civil War]] and the election of [[Woodrow Wilson]] in [[19...
31: Cleveland was a hard worker and was scrupulously honest at a time when many politici...
34: ...ed concentration upon whatever task faced him. He was elected sheriff of [[Erie County, New York]] in ...
36: ...s a Public Trust" as his trademark of office, and was later elected, [[Governor of New York]], where h...
39: ...cleveland_wedding.png|left|thumb|Grover Cleveland was the first and only President married in the Whit... - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...o]]. The Canopic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near th...
3: ...slamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long decline, which by...
5: ... [[library]], designed by [[Christoph Kapellar]], was inaugurated in [[2001]]]]
19: ...ted). Alexander's chief architect for the project was [[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are ...
21: ... beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
4: ...on tales]]. The [[Han Chinese]] thought the Earth was created and destroyed in cycles of over 23 milli...
6: ...e future beyond the end of humankind. One who did was [[Aristotle]], who thought the Earth and [[unive...
9: ..., regarded as the founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, sug...
11: ... cooling. This led him to estimate that the Earth was about 75,000 years old.
13: ... simply assumed that the Earth always had been, always would be. However, there were many naturalists ...
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