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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
60: | [[Indianapolis, Indiana|Indianapolis]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ... most probably [[Genova|Genoese]], although some historians claim he could have been born in other pla...
2: [[Image:Christopher_columbus_2.jpg|thumb|200px|Image provided b...
3: ... or getting stuck in windless regions. Although his explorations were not the first to reach the Amer...
5: ...own to the general public throughout Europe. This is likely due to the invention of the [[printing pre...
7: ... anniversary of Columbus' landing in the Bahamas) is celebrated as a [[Holiday|holiday]]. - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
1: {{List of people A}}
8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...esant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...heosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[writer]] and [[orator]].
4: ...men's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific wr...
5: ...Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this book.
9: .... He had to leave the Theosophical Society over this in [[1906]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into t... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
4: ...he capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], and [[Berlin]].
6: ...ters]] on her own and in [[1866]] she moved to Paris.
8: ...in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, ...
10: ...atured, and in Paris, she studied with [[Camille Pissarro]].
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. The Salon critics claimed th... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...[[England|English]] physician and [[feminism|feminist]], the first woman to gain a medical qualificati...
5: ...ifficulty in gaining a qualifying diploma to practise medicine. London University, the Royal Colleges...
7: ...for [[Marylebone]], and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London hospital for c...
9: ...president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Medical Association]].
11: ...in the whole of England. The movement for the admission of women to the medical profession, of which ... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
5: ...odels that allowed her to mature into a nonconformist. She was cared for by servants who believed in t...
7: ...ng (later Emma Coulomb), which closed after dissatisfied customers complained of fraudulent activities...
9: ...ne new feat of hers was [[materialization]], that is, producing physical objects out of nothing. Thou...
11: ...rnate spelling: "Lamastery") where her work ''[[Isis Unveiled]]'' was created.
13: ... [[1875]] in New York City. She maintained that this marriage was not consummated either. She separate... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
4: ...o, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career had progressed to where they were b...
6: The Irwin sisters proved popular enough to earn regular spots f...
8: ...iss]], became the first screen kiss in cinematic history.
10: .... Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same year she began making records for ...
12: ...on of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black is Back]]''. - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
3: ...s Constitution|U.S. Constitution]], the President is also the [[head of government|chief executive]] o...
5: ... as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nations wit...
9: The current President of the United States is [[George W. Bush]].
12: ...ution|Article II]] of the U.S. Constitution establishes the requirements one must meet in order to bec... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
7: ...r><td>'''Followed:'''</td><td>[[William Henry Harrison]]</td></tr>
13: ...ed States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1st wife)<br>
14: [[Priscilla Cooper Tyler]] (daughter-in-law)<br>
17: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
21: ...e the office of President following the death of his predecessor. - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
6: ...><td>[[March 4]], [[1869]] – [[March 3]], [[1877]]</td></tr>
15: <tr><td>'''[[List of political parties in the United States|Politi...
22: ...erican Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[President of the United States|President]] o...
24: ...ne of America's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corrup...
26: ...accomplishments of his administration, including his struggle to preserve [[Reconstruction]], and look... - William A. Wheeler (2833 bytes)
13: | [[March 4]], [[1877]]-<br />[[March 3]], [[1881]]
46: ...ongresses ([[March 4]], [[1869]] - [[March 3]], [[1877]]).
48: ...yes]] in [[1876]]. He was inaugurated in March [[1877]] and served until March [[1881]]. He retired fr...
52: ...|after=[[Chester A. Arthur]]|years=[[March 4]], [[1877]] – [[March 3]], [[1881]]}} - Romania (19812 bytes)
1: ...⮩a) is a country in southeastern [[Europe]]. It is bordered by [[Ukraine]] and [[Moldova]] in the no...
19: ...ident]] <br> [[Prime Minister of Romania|Prime Minister]] |
38: established_events = <br> - Declared<br/> - Recognised |
39: ...[Romanian War of Independence]]<br/>[[10 May]], [[1877]]<br/>[[13 July]], [[1878]] ([[Treaty of Berlin, ...
57: ...354;ara Rom⮥ască''" (The Romanian Country) is the Romanian name of the former principality of [... - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (8955 bytes)
1: '''Saint Vincent and the Grenadines''' is an independent sovereign state of the [[Caribbean...
19: | [[English language|English]]
30: | '''[[Prime Minister]]'''
34: | [[List of countries by area|Ranked 182nd]] <br> [[1 E8 ...
37: | [[List of countries by population|Ranked 176th]]<br> 11... - Iowa (24205 bytes)
10: OfficialLang = [[English language|English]] |
33: ISOCode = US-IA |
36: ...e [[U.S. Post Office]] abbreviation for the state is '''IA'''.
38: The state is named for the [[Native American]] [[Iowa tribe|Io...
41: == History == - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
1: This is a chronological list of [[invention]]s.
3: ...first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
7: ...igin of language|Language]] (controversial - this is the earliest likely)
11: ...0 KYA: [[Bow (weapon)|Bow]] and [[arrow]] in [[Tunisia]]
19: * 8500 BC: [[Agriculture#History|Agriculture]] in the [[Fertile Crescent]] - List of people by name: Y (12717 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
15: *[[Irvin Yalom|Yalom, Irvin]], psychologist
17: *[[Yamamoto Isoroku]] (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
35: ...emenko|Yaremenko, Yury]], (died 1996), USSR economist
37: ...ian politician, former deputy prime minister and CIS executive secretary
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