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- Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
18: ...w segmented pulp. The numerous [[cultivar]]s include the white grapefruit and the red, of which the 19...
20: ...roduced the [[tangelo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
22: ...me ''Citrus paradisi''. Its true origins were not determined until the [[1950s]]. This led to the offi...
26: ...he theory being that the fruit's low [[glycemic index]] is able to help the body's [[metabolism]] burn...
30: ... Fruiting Grapefruit?] in the [[Chelsea Physic Garden]], london. - List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
28: | [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]]
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
53: ...ash; [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added) - History of China (45919 bytes)
2: ...any were eventually assimilated into the Chinese identity. These cultural and political influences fro...
7: ...ultural center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those ...
11: ...s such as [[Sanxingdui]] and [[Erlitou]] show evidence of a [[Bronze Age]] [[Civilization]] in [[Chin...
14: ...ished during the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty...
15: ...ming_tombs.jpg |thumb|left|Ming Tombs. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clipar... - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
11: *[[Dean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
36: *[[Jacob Fidelis Ackermann|Ackermann, Jacob Fidelis]] (1765-1815)
53: *[[Jose de Acosta|Acosta, Jose de]] (1540-1600)
56: *[[Mercedes de Acosta|Acosta, Mercedes de]] (1893-1968) - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: *[[Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
20: ...e immigrant to Germany who died as a result of an deportation attempt
21: ...n, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
25: *[[Agnes de Poitou]], (1020-1077), regent of the [[Holy Roman...
27: ...ro Agnew|Agnew, Spiro]], (1918-1996), [[Vice President of the United States]] - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
7: ...rah]], (1934-1996), Somali politician and clan leader
17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
24: *[[George Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
1: ...ia Wyatt Caraway''' ([[February 1]], [[1878]] - [[December 21]], [[1950]]) was the first woman elected...
7: Hattie Caraway married [[Thaddeus H. Caraway]] and moved with him to [[Jonesboro,...
9: ...te]] where he served until he died in office in [[1931]].
11: ... She was sworn in to office on [[December 9]], [[1931]] and was confirmed by a special election of the ...
13: Caraway made no speeches on the floor of the Senate but built ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquista Ib鲩ca|CNT-FAI]].
6: ...for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
9: At the age of 17 she emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with t...
10: ...anberkman.jpe|thumb|240px|right|Goldman and Alexander Berkman]]
13: ...attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkma... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...ember 7]], [[1962]]) was a [[pen name]] for the [[Denmark|Danish]] author '''Karen Blixen'''. Blixen ...
5: ...the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian...
7: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
9: ...he pseudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
15: ... Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola) - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
4: ...itzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her ...
6: ...ture]] or [[Hispanic Literature]]). Many now include Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Li...
8: ...d the strength of [[brotherly love]]. She was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], t...
12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays almost every trope o... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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8: date_of_death=[[March 6]], [[1982]] |
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ... values. Rand viewed this hero as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase...
14: ... values from others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...laywright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life ...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...sburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]...
9: ...by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ...klas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was support... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ...m]]. Because of Edwin Earhart's inability to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve yea...
8: ...War I]]. In 1919 she enrolled as a pre-medical student at [[Columbia University]] in [[New York City]]...
10: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner...
14: ... of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
16: ...[[Newark, New Jersey]]. In July [[1936]] she took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed b... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
8: ...er aeroplane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G...
10: ...d for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack ...
16: ...th Mollison, she flew a [[De Havilland Dragon Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]]...
18: ...o [[India]] in [[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]]...
23: *[[List of famous deaths by aircraft misadventure]] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) tow...
9: ...the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in thi...
11: ...erimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives ...
13: ...nd visual impressions; Woolf is at her best in rendering self-soliloquizing existences whose perpetual...
15: ..., near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...eman graduated from eighth grade and briefly attended college at Colored Agricultural and Normal Unive...
8: ...ial backing from Binga, and from the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her flamboyant personality a...
10: ... had failed many times. Once, she saw a fellow student die during practice. However, she learned quick...
16: ...ether wreck. Her friends and family did not consider the aircraft safe and implored her not to fly it...
18: ...een honored in several ways since her death: In [[1931]], a group of Black male pilots performed the fir... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...rogrammer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer p...
3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...d from the Navy, but she continued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculat...
7: ...auchly]] Computer Corporation and joined the team developing the [[UNIVAC I]]. In the early [[1950s]] ...
9: ...machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fa... - Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
7: ... Frank Hogg became director in [[1946]] until his death in [[1951]].
9: ... numerous papers, and established herself as a leader in the field of astronomy. In [[1985]], she mar...
13: In [[1968]] she was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] and was promoted to Companion in [[1... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ... From a young age, Maria was surrounded by the students and lecturers from the University, intellectua...
5: ...at Sarah Lawrence College. Here she developed a model for the nuclear shell structure. For this work s...
7: ... is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
11: ...1963]] saw both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their disco...
17: After her death in [[1972]], an award was set up by the [[Amer... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...ddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New ...
7: ... acts. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by her pet...
11: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
13: ...ker was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never real...
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