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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]] - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...ces from many parts of Asia as well as successive waves of immigration and emigration merged to create...
7: ...d; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...d during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Sha...
18: ...e, where a bronze smelter from around [[2000 BC]] was unearthed. Early markings from this period, foun...
28: ...122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power. - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...d [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society ...
7: ...ency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...th critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. Sh...
13: ... than to the interior monologues proper) create a wave-like atmosphere closer to the prose poem than t...
20: ...o studied for its insight into [[shell shock]], [[war]], [[social class|class]], and modern British so... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: '''Billie Holiday''' ([[April 7]], [[1915]] – [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''...
7: ...ifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be...
9: ...eatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: It was around this time that Holiday had her first succ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was an [[evangelist]] and media sensation in the [[1...
7: ...d, Ontario|Salford]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]] she was the daughter of James Morgan Kennedy, a widower ...
9: ...d with the [[Salvation Army]]. As a result, Aimee was raised in an atmosphere of strong [[Christianity...
15: ...New York]], she met her second husband, Harold Stewart McPherson, an accountant. They were married on...
19: ... and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching full-time. - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...ember 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of [[Seventh-day Adventist Church|Sev...
5: ...lth]] (she also advocated [[vegetarianism]]). She was a [[leader]] who emphasized [[education]] and [[...
17: ... fully recovered from. In her weakened state, she was unable to return to school, and never completed ...
19: ...ctures, she felt that she was a guilty sinner and was filled with terror about being eternally lost. S...
23: It was shortly after experiencing the [[Great Disappoin... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: ...[[Ravensbr? [[Germany]], was a heroine of [[World War II]].
5: ...Gestapo]]. In the city of [[Lyons]], Denise Bloch was recruited to work for the [[Special Operations E...
7: ...the [[Pyrenees| Pyrenees mountains]] making their way to [[Gibraltar]] and eventually London. There, S...
9: ...tortured before being shipped to [[Germany]]. She was held in prisons at [[Torgau]] in [[Saxony]] and ...
11: ... Memorial]] in [[Surrey]]. Posthumously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation for Brave Cond... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: ...5]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World War I]].
7: ...tant article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/edith_cavell...
9: ...not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone." These words are inscribed on her stat...
11: After the war Edith Cavell was reburied in the grounds of [[Norwich Cathedral]]...
13: ...[Mount Edith Cavell]] in the [[Canadian Rockies]] was named in her honour. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...onths before the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefuln...
7: ...ek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish e...
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ... lost part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military pe...
15: ...source of suspicion against Krystyna and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have u... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...ndash; [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...zo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gi...
5: ...her first Academy Award nomination for [[Academy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, '...
7: ...al in both Hollywood and with the public; Bergman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation."...
9: ...en'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on th... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
2: ...er 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...idered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored into the ''Conservatoire de Musique et...
6: ...on the stages of [[Europe]] in the [[1870s]], and was soon in demand all over Europe and in the [[Unit...
8: ...l as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books and plays thro...
10: ...y endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, was quickly collapsed, largely due to the young acto... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...t of the [[heckelphone]], the piccolo heckelphone was intended to redress a point of weakness in the r...
3: ... did not score for it and only a single prototype was ever built.
7: ...5]] due to lack of interest. Apparently, only one was ever sold.
9: ...ar, or may be in the hands of private collectors awaiting discovery. - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
1: ...used in Great Britain. The [[Hawaiian language|Hawai'ian]] spelling ''''ukulele''' is also sometimes ...
3: ...the name roughly translates as "jumping flea" and was developed there in the 1880s as acombination of ...
5: ...le by the marriage of the raj㯠and the braguinha was verified in 1998 in Funchal, Madeira, when the i...
7: ...d Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...e A is a [[whole step]] below the B). This tuning was very popular in vaudeville in the days before am... - 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 ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...against one another), divergent (two plates move away from each other), and transform (two plates slid...
5: ...eading]], noticed in the 1960s. The theory itself was developed during the late [[1960s]] and has sinc...
16: ...e types of plate boundaries, characterised by the way the plates move relative to each other. They ar...
19: ...'active margins'') occur where two plates slide towards each other commonly forming either a [[subduct...
31: ...elts carrying the ridge on each side of the rift away from the spreading center the action becomes cle... - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
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58: ...urpose of the act being to declare that the state was a [[republic]] rather than a form of [[constitut...
60: ... known as the "[[Irish Free State]]", a name that was retained until [[1937]].
67: ...The war at that stage was expected to be ended by 1915, not the four years it did ultimately last.) For ...
69: ...]] ''Saorstᴠɩreann'') with [[dominion status]] was created. The [[Dᩬ]] narrowly ratified the trea...
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