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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]] - 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: 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
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
26: *[[Queen Aiswarya|Aiswarya, Queen]], (died 2001), non-reigning Nepalese q... - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...bruary 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected to serve as a [[United S...
3: [[image:Caraway_hattie.jpg|left|Hattie Caraway, first woman elected to US Senate]]
5: Hattie Caraway was born near [[Bakerville, Tennessee]] in [[Humphre...
7: Hattie Caraway married [[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]] ...
9: ... and served in that office until [[1921]] when he was elected to the [[United States Senate]] where he... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...d War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter...
5: Mrs. Roosevelt was active in the formations of numerous institution...
9: ...eanor's hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five surviv...
13: ...ldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enraged that the homely Eleanor not only snagged...
15: ...olumn ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hickok returned and lived in the White Ho... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...ing, New York|Corning]], [[New York]]. Her mother was a devout [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]...
9: ...ed States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obsceni...
11: ...hat Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public n...
13: ...937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: ...14]], [[1890]] – [[December 16]], [[1956]]) was an artist and writer, known as the '''Queen of B...
3: ...rn in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wales|South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]]. From [[1906]] to [[1907...
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]]. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ..., born '''Alissa "Alice" Zinovievna Rosenbaum''', was a popular and controversial [[United States|Amer...
19: ...udy screenwriting; in late [[1925]], however, she was granted a [[Visa (document)|visa]] to visit Amer...
22: ... the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [[1932]] to [[Universal Studios]]. Rand then wrote the ...
24: ...ese films were re-edited into a new version which was approved by Rand and re-released as ''We the Liv...
26: ...pite these initial struggles ''The Fountainhead'' was successful, bringing Rand fame and financial sec... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...ed [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russi...
4: ...e married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer. In [[1932]], she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", p... - 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...
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...
19: ...reat artists and writers including [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Sherwood Anderson]] an... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ... ([[July 24]], [[1897]] - c.[[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]],...
8: ... keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even featured in local newspapers while she taug...
10: ... "[[Powder Puff Derby]]" by [[Will Rogers]]). She was engaged to Samuel Chapman, an attorney from Bost...
14: ... tight quarters ]]On the morning of [[May 20]], [[1932]], she took off from [[Saint John, New Brunswick]...
16: ...[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delive... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ..., [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...rk in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot...
8: She became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia...
12: ...own]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a ...
14: In [[1932]], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mol... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
2: ...] - [[August 24]], [[1979]]) was a famous [[World War II]] [[Germany|German]] [[test pilot]], and a fa...
4: ... the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rather photogenic. Several of her gliding record...
6: ...pter]]. This made her a star of the Nazi party, always looking for publicity, and in 1938 she flew the...
8: ...e with Diamonds. She survived many accidents and was badly injured several times.
10: ...ropped from a [[Heinkel He 111]] bomber. Later it was suggested that similarly equipped V-1 would be u... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
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...
20: ...aying "I've lived songs like that". Even when she was young and singing trivial pop songs, her unique ... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...] movie ''Come Back Africa'', and spent 31 years away from home carrying the struggle against the raci...
3: ...akeba received the [[Grammy Award]] for [[Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording|B...
5: In [[2004]] Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (...
9: *[[Grammy Awards of 1966]] - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
9: ...ortly thereafter, they never divorced, and Bonnie was wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died.
11: ...ed the violent deaths they viewed as certain. She was fond of creative writing and the arts. Her poem ...
15: ...of seven children in a poor farming family. Clyde was first arrested in late 1926, after running when ...
19: ... meets a charming young fellow. Nobody thought it was anything special. Nobody guessed where it would ...
23: ...lling. Fellow inmate [[Ralph Fults]] said that it was Eastham where Clyde turned "from a schoolboy to ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
5: ...The Blue Light]]'' she took it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...e a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]''...
9: ...thetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the stadium crowd.
13: ...later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she was fascinated by the Nazis but politically naﶥ an... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...nuary 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show...
4: She was the daughter of [[United States House of Represe...
8: ...oos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ...with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -...
12: ...was unable to dominate the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lomba... - 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...
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