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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
28: | [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
53: ...ash; [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
57: | [[1867]] — [[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction) - David Livingstone (4684 bytes)
8: ...t Livingstone made the one convert that he ever made in Africa. Within 6 months, they had rejected Chr...
12: ... In particular, Livingstone was a proponent of trade and missions to be established in central Africa.
14: ...rned to England to try to garner support for his ideas, and to publish a book on his travels. At this ...
17: ... sent to central and east Africa at his urgings ended in disaster, with nearly every missionary dying ...
22: ... which feeds the [[Congo River]], Livingstone decided that this river was in fact the "real" [[Nile]]. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
3: *[[Pieter van der Aa|Aa, Pieter van der]], (ca. 1659 - 1733), Dutch publisher
6: *[[Mehemet Aali|Aali, Mehemet]], (1815-1871), Turkish statesman
9: ...misepp, Julius]], (1883-1950), Estonian plant breeder - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
26: ...s|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
35: *[[Alvin Adams|Adams, Alvin]] (1804-1877), founder of [[Adams Express]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...7]], and Empress of India from [[1876]] until her death. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years ...
12: ...ged from their wives) and father children to provide an heir for the king. At the age of fifty the Duk...
16: ...Regent during the queen's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit t...
18: ...an prince) and out of a sense of duty (his family desired the match). Whatever Albert's original reaso...
20: ...h II of the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ...nham College, Cambridge]]. She later became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Socie...
7: She was made a [[Order of the British Empire|Dame of the British Empire...
9: ...t Fawcett was the sister of [[Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first English female doctor, and the m... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...]]. The uprising was carried out against Rosa's orders, and crushed by the remnants of the monarchist ...
6: ...fe Line (maiden name: L?stein). Rosa had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life.
8: ...e]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its membe...
10: ...d]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[Zurich University]], along with other socialis...
12: ...ally able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist memb... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...udents, and the slow pace of her courses, she decided to study the [[Old Masters|old masters]] on her ...
8: ...not her art supplies. She returned to Europe in [[1871]] when the archbishop of Pittsburgh commissioned ...
14: Upon seeing pastels by [[Edgar Degas]] in an art dealer's window, though, she knew she was not alone ...
16: ... circle until [[1886]], she remained friends with Degas and [[Berthe Morisot]].
21: ... of techniques. Nearly one third of her paintings depict a mother and child portrayed in intimate rela... - Grazia Deledda (304 bytes)
1: '''Grazia Deledda''' ([[September 27]], [[1871]] - [[August 15]], [[1936]]), born in [[Nuoro]], ...
4: *[http://members.tripod.com/~GraziaDeledda/ETEXT-F.HTM Works on the Web] - George Eliot (6014 bytes)
3: ...'George Eliot''' ([[22 November]] [[1819]] - [[22 December]] [[1880]]), was an [[England|English]] [[n...
5: ...f romances. An additional factor may have been a desire to shield her private life from public scruti...
8: ...[1851]]. The ''Westminster Review'' had been founded by [[John Stuart Mill]] and [[Jeremy Bentham]] a...
10: ... remained married to her in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
12: Two years after the death of Lewes, on [[May 6]], [[1880]] she married a... - Ouida (1938 bytes)
1: ... [[England|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ram饧''.
3: ...], to an English father and a French mother. She derived her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname...
8: ...4) (also published with the title ''Two Little Wooden Shoes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 G...
11: * ''[[A Dog of Flanders]]'' (1872)
13: * ''Findelkind'' (??) [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1367... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
3: ...rett Anderson''' ([[9 June]] [[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] phys...
5: ...[London]], she was refused admission as a full student both there and at many other medical schools to...
7: ...ad of the poll for [[Marylebone]], and was also made one of the visiting physicians of the East London...
9: ...877. In 1897 Dr Garrett Anderson was elected president of the East Anglian branch of the [[British Med... - Jennie Kidd Trout (1706 bytes)
3: Born '''Jennie Kidd Gowanlock''' in Wooden Mills, [[Scotland]], Jennie (whose name is vario...
5: ...dical career, passing her matriculation exam in [[1871]] and studied medicine at the [[University of Tor... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...lavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...oth her mother and grandmother were strong role models that allowed her to mature into a nonconformist...
7: ...Italian]] [[opera]] singer Agardi Metrovich. In [[1871]], on a boat bound for [[Cairo]] an explosion cla...
9: ...out of nothing. Though she was apparently quite adept at these feats, her interests were more in the ...
15: ...wledge is consistent with new science may be considered to be the first instance of what is now called... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
3: ...1905]] – [[April 15]], [[1990]]) was a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ... Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]]). Her older sister and brother were Alva and Sven.
8: ...when she appeared in an advertising short for the department store where she worked. That led to anoth...
10: ...]] Greta Garbo. She starred in two movies in [[Sweden]] and one in [[Germany]].
12: ...me grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after. - Cornet (3752 bytes)
3: ...s a standard [[brass band]] instrument, which was derived from the bugle family. However, lately it ha...
7: ...y seen only in the brass band, is an Eb soprano model (often shortened to just "sop"), pitched a fourt...
9: ...very narrow at the [[mouthpiece]] and gradually widening towards the bell. The conical bore of the co...
13: ...traditionalists and it is not clear what its intended role is.
17: Like the trumpet and all other modern brasswind instruments, the cornet makes a sound... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
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4: ...t:center">[[image:Seal_us_presdent.jpg|200px|Presidential Seal]]</div></td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>10th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[James Knox Polk]]</td></tr> - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
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10: | '''Order:''' || 16th President
15: | '''Predecessor:''' || [[James Buchanan]]
24: | '''Date of death:''' || [[April 15]], [[1865]] - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>18th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Succeeded by:'''</td><td>[[Rutherford B. Hayes]]</td></tr>
11: <tr><td>'''Date of Death:'''</td><td>[[July 23]], [[1885]]</td></tr> - Henry Wilson (2604 bytes)
3: ... [[Massachusetts]] and the eighteenth [[Vice President of the United States]].
5: ...became a shoemaker. He attended several local academies, and also taught school in Natick, where he l...
7: ...ilitary Affairs. In [[1861]] he raised and commanded the Twenty-second Regiment, Massachusetts Volunt...
9: ...ng at [[Washington, DC]]. He was interred in Old Dell Park Cemetery, Natick.
12: ...]]|after=[[William A. Wheeler]]|years=[[U.S. presidential election, 1872|1872]] (won)}}
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