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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]] - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...SH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...d the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events...
9: ... Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide ...
11: ...he Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid the...
13: ... her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from ... - 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]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
10: ...store for a short time each morning as her mother was buying supplies at the market. - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...ry 15]], [[1820]] – [[March 13]], [[1906]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[civil rights]] l...
5: She was born in [[Adams, Massachusetts]], the daughter o...
7: ...de preceding the outbreak of the [[American Civil War]], she took a prominent part in the anti-[[slave...
9: ...speaker and writer. From [[1868]] to [[1870]] she was the proprietor of a weekly paper, ''[[The Revolu...
13: ...views of Susan B. Anthony. Many early feminists, aware of how the procedure endangered women's health ... - 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... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
3: ...22]], [[1880]] – [[February 13]], [[1958]]) was a [[suffragette]] born in [[Manchester]], [[Engl...
5: ...suffragette cause after her daughter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her pri...
7: ...didate for Parliament in the Smethwick riding but was defeated. Leaving her native England, she moved ...
9: She was made a Dame Commander of the British Empire in 1...
11: ...Pankhurst died in [[Los Angeles, California]] and was buried in the [[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in ... - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...[[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
5: She was born in [[Manchester|Manchester, England]], a da...
7: In [[1906]] she started to work full-time with the [[Women'...
11: ...ist Party of Great Britain]] (CPGB. However, such was the importance attached to being within the same...
13: ...as a personal organ she revolted. As a result she was expelled from the CPGB and moved to found the sh... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...lieved travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals o...
8: ...ted States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, but art supplies a...
14: ... friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
21: ... away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of B...
3: ...[[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art Sch...
5: ...n Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Roald Kristian]].
7: ...ic creations were widely exhibited during [[World War I]] including at the Royal Academy in London as ...
13: ...home town, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]]. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...[[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet...
7: ...hree. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Ra...
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...nd Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael'...
17: When England declared war on Germany in [[World War I]], Stein and Toklas were visiting with [[Alfre... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...er 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... poetry|Symbolist]] movements in Russia. Her work was not looked kindly upon by [[Stalin]] and the the...
8: ... ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause he...
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...lowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]...
4: Bessie Lee Pittman was born in [[Muscogee, Florida]], the youngest of t...
8: ...dlum, whom she married in 1936 after his divorce, was an astute financier and savvy marketer who recog...
10: ...fame, and association with the wealthy elite, she was frequently interviewed by the press and she made...
12: ...ing of more than a thousand women pilots. For her war efforts, she received the [[Distinguished Servic... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calcul...
3: ...ng mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...rite a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to w...
7: ...was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercia...
9: ...bler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy. - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...[June 28]], [[1906]] - [[February 20]], [[1972]]) was born Maria G?rt in [[Katowice]] (then in [[Germa...
3: ...indaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward Mayer]], the assistant of James Franck. The cou...
5: ...1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was not allowed to work on scientific projects. In [...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to w...
9: :"Think of a roomful of waltzers. Suppose they go round the room in circles,... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ... [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and sing...
5: ...red [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissan...
7: ...accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard f...
9: ...ices common to the era. The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ...
11: ...to a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally bin... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...ce]] (support) such as [[paper]], [[canvas]] or a wall. This is done by a [[painter]]; this term is us...
17: *[[Wash]]
31: *[[Mural]] (Walls)
38: *[[Water miscible oil paint]]s
45: *[[Encaustic]] (wax) - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
3: ... per sq km (16 per sq mi). Population in [[2005]] was estimated at 15,100,500 [http://www.stat.kz/en/i...
70: ...the [[13th century]], the territory of Kazakhstan was ruled by a series of [[nomad]]ic nations. Follow...
72: ...life on the vast [[steppe]] and semi-desert lands was characterized by a constant search for new pastu...
74: The process of colonization was a combination of voluntary integration into the ...
76: ...) in St. Petersburg. The competition for land and water which ensued between the Kazakhs and the incom...
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