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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
5: ! State !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
23: | [[California]]
24: | [[Sacramento, California|Sacramento]]
69: ... — [[1881]] (west wing), [[1884]] — [[1906]] (center) - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
13: *[[Ahn Eak-tae]], (1906-1965), Korean composer - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...ormality and propriety, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend t...
9: ...er daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]].
11: ...]]4000 plus ?4000 from her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt...
13: ...f Mecklenburg-Strelitz (n饠[[Princess Augusta of Cambridge]]). May wrote to her aunt every week witho...
17: ... whose father, HRH The [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge]], was a brother of HRH The [[Prince Edwar... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...ress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastemaker and the own...
6: ... Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor|...
8: ...d on [[November 28]], [[1919]], in December she became the second woman elected, and the first to take...
10: ...s his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observer'' newspaper, wou...
12: ...arlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...ter in the world, as well as the only former American citizen to hold the post ([[Benjamin Netanyahu]]...
6: ...[1903]], and the rest of the family followed in [[1906]]. They settled in [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]].
8: ==Emigration to the United States, 1906==
10: Her father worked as a carpenter in [[Milwaukee]] and her mother ran a groc...
14: ...ather when she was 18. She began speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region... - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...civil rights]] leader who, along with [[Elizabeth Cady Stanton]], led the effort to grant women the ri...
7: ...1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
9: ...ognized as one of the ablest and most zealous advocates of the complete legal equality of the two sexe...
13: ...s health and lives, opposed [[abortion]] on practical and moral grounds and hoped that greater equalit...
15: ...ganization in [[1869]] until [[1892]], when she became president. - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
4: ...eave both her children behind. She fought for the causes she thought were right, starting with [[freed...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[...
7: ...voted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progres...
9: ...t, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previo...
11: ...y courted Hindu opinion more than former Theosophical leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy fr... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...government. Luxemburg and hundreds of others were captured, tortured, and killed.
6: ... Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
14: ...tion for nations under [[socialism]], which later caused tensions with [[Vladimir Lenin]].
19: ...g insisted that the critical difference between [[capital]] and [[labour (economics)|labour]] could on...
21: ...ks on German [[militarism]] and [[imperialism]] became heftier as she foresaw the approach of war, and... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...ter's arrest and was herself imprisoned on many occasions for her principles.
7: ...d to the [[United States]] where she eventually became an [[evangelist]].
11: ...[[Woodlawn Memorial Cemetery]] in [[Santa Monica, California]]. - Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
3: ...5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] movement.
7: ...ork full-time with the [[Women's Social and Political Union]] with her sister [[Christabel Pankhurst|C...
9: ...''[[Women's Dreadnought]]'', which subsequently became the ''[[Workers Dreadnought]]''.
17: ...ew Times and Ethiopia News]]'' in [[1936]], and became a supporter of [[Haile Selassie]]. She raised f...
19: ... died in 1960, and was buried in front of Trinity Cathedral in [[Addis Ababa]]. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ... ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...ore she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]],...
6: ...he began studying painting at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsyl...
8: ... small town. Her father continued to resist her vocation, and paid only for her basic needs but not he... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ..., [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy.
5: ...ose friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]], [[Serge Diaghilev]], and [[Jean Cocteau]], ...
7: ...in England, she taught at the [[Westminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After div...
11: During her 40 year career, Hamnett also worked with [[Bloomsbury group|...
13: ...ets that formed the area's epicentre. Home of the caf頬ife in Montparnasse, it was Nina Hamnett's fav... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...oet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and litera...
7: ...1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
9: ...|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: ...he lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Mat... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ... fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristo...
10: ...Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension b...
12: ...ravelled abroad until shortly before her death in 1906. They lived for a while by the sea at Nervi, near...
14: ...g Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor.
16: ...ribed in the essay 'A Captive Spirit.' She also became enamoured of the work of [[Aleksandr Blok]] and... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
6: ...d one of the 25 outstanding businesswomen in America by the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in [[1953]]...
8: ...cognized the value of publicity for her business. Calling her line of cosmetics "''Wings''," she flew ...
10: ...Angeles]] to [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] race because officials restricted entrants to men only. Coc...
12: ...oined the Air Transport Auxiliary. Following America's entry into the War, in 1942 she was made direct... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compil...
3: ...e same two subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathemati...
5: ...n the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]...
12: ...to an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...hen in [[Germany]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize...
5: ...jects. In [[1946]] she became a professor in [[Chicago]] at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed...
7: ...ns and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is like the Earth s...
9: ...in another. Then imagine that in each circle, you can fit twice as many dancers by having one pair go ...
11: ..., worked with Maria to produce a book in [[1950]] called ''Elementary Theory of Nuclear Shell Structur... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nger, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ..., [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a tee...
7: ...th a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized th...
9: ...oman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful f...
11: ...test song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ... this is his or her [[profession]]. Evidence indicates that humans have been painting for about 6 tim...
8: ...ns, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples of [[cave painting]] all over the world.
14: [[:Category:Artistic techniques|Painting technique]]s i...
29: *[[Canvas]]
45: *[[Encaustic]] (wax) - Kazakhstan (26806 bytes)
1: ...nd [[Turkmenistan]], and has a coastline on the [[Caspian Sea]]. Kazakhstan is also a former republic ...
21: | align=center style="vertical-align: top;" colspan=2 | <small>''[[National mot...
23: ...olspan=2 style="background: #ffffff;" | [[image:LocationKazakhstan.png|290px]]
31: | '''[[Capital]]'''
64: | '''[[List of country calling codes|Calling Code]]'''
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