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- History of the United States (1865-1918) (52094 bytes)
2: ... century, it was the dominant economic power and well on its way to taking its place among the imperia...
7: ... Congress|Congress]] to resist readmitting the rebel states without first imposing preconditions. A s...
9: ...This failure of the federal government to effectively reunite the country contributed to the governmen...
11: ...otection for life or property now exist in the rebel States."
13: ...led [[carpetbaggers]] by southerners, and were widely perceived as being motivated by graft and corrup... - History of the United States (1918-1945) (54688 bytes)
14: ... Party]] returned to the [[White House]] with the election of [[Warren G. Harding]], who promised a "r...
16: ...he [[Stock Market]], which rose to record high levels, which in retrospect after the crash were danger...
18: ... became widely popular with the young (and was widely reviled as unmusical noise by much of the older ...
34: ... Dome scandal]]. It looked like the President himself might be shown to be involved in corruption, but...
36: ...a full term of his own in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1924]] under the slogan "Keep Cool With Co...
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- List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...plorers]], [[astronaut]], [[conquistador]], [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] ...
14: *[[Charles Albanel]] (1616-1696), Canada
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portugue...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa
30: ...er]] Muslim, visited [[Mecca]] several times, travelled to [[Central Asia]], [[East Africa]], [[China]... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: * [[1576]] - [[Eighty Years' War]]: In [[Belgium]], [[Spain]] captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwer...
14: ...d States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[Grover Cleveland]] defeats [[United States Republican Party|Rep...
15: * [[1889]] - [[Menelik II of Ethiopia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large maj...
16: ...lliam Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrende... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
51: *[[Henry Adams|Adams, Henry]], (1838-1918), author - List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
11: ...Alexander Emanuel Agassiz|Agassiz, Alexander Emanuel]], (1835-1910), American man of science
13: *[[Agathangelus I]], patriarch of Constantinople
14: *[[Agatho of Alexandria]], (pope 665-681), religious figure
21: ...gmon, David]], [[Brigadier General]] in the [[Israel Defence Forces]]
24: *[[Gianni Agnelli|Agnelli, Gianni]], (1921-2003), Italian industrialist - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ... seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do...
10: ...her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband had p...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
2: ...kiewicz''' ([[1868]]–July 1927), was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ...he [[Anglo-Irish]] family's ancestral home, Lissadell House in [[County Sligo]]. Constance and her si...
8: ...e was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of [[1917]].
10: ...] in the [[House of Commons of Southern Ireland]] elections of 1921.
12: ...ty, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs|Minster for the Gaeltacht]]. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...my and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by ...
6: ...child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maiden name:...
14: ...ndependent Poland. Luxemburg denied the right of self-determination for nations under [[socialism]], w...
19: ...aim was to improve the number of seats the party held in the [[Reichstag]].
25: Nonetheless, Luxemburg kept up her political activities; i... - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
1: ...renBlixen.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|Blixen in Kenya, 1918]]
7: ...ated a [[coffee]] plantation. After several infidelities on the husband's part, the couple separated ...
9: ...drezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
22: * ''The Angelic Avengers'' (1947)
34: ...Blixen|Asteroid 3318 Blixen]], named after the novelist - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: .... From [[1906]] to [[1907]] she studied at the [[Pelham Art School]] and then at the [[London School o...
5: ...'' where the man at the next table introduced himself as "Modigliani, painter and Jew". In addition to...
7: ...tminster Technical Institute]] from [[1917]] to [[1918]]. After divorcing Kristian, she took up with ano...
11: ..., rugs, and the like. The photo shown here is a [[1918]] portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted ...
13: ...wn, [[Augustus John]], and later another [[Wales|Welshman]], the poet [[Dylan Thomas]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...y Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Cana...
7: ...o in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage nam...
9: ...d her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford would go on to become ...
11: ... Pickford became secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Dou...
22: * [[1913]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ... Chemistry</i>. Hahn and Meitner collaborated closely studying radioactivity, with her knowledge of ph...
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ...the radiationless transition known as the [[Auger electron spectroscopy|Auger effect]], which is named...
10: ...celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led to the [[Manhattan...
12: ... in 1946 she was treated to total American press celebrity treatment, with the usual press inaccuracy,... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ... the [[International Church of the Foursquare Gospel|Foursquare Church]].
7: ...ndal in their small town, prompting the couple to elope to [[Michigan]].)
9: ... atmosphere of strong [[Christianity|Christian]] beliefs. As a [[teenager]], however, she became an av...
13: .... Shortly thereafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China...
17: ==Evangelism and Foursquare Gospel == - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe...
18: ...rable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portraya... - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
3: ...a Elsje "Fanny" Blankers-Koen''' ([[April 26]], [[1918]]–[[January 25]], [[2004]]) was a [[Netherl...
7: ...she became leader of the Dutch female track and field team. In 1999, she was voted "Female Athlete of ...
11: ...Lage Vuursche]] (near [[Baarn]]) to Arnoldus and Helena Koen. As a teenager, she enjoyed [[tennis]], [...
15: ... (shared with two other jumpers) while the Dutch relay team came fifth in the final (the sixth team in...
17: ... the preparations. The Olympics were formally cancelled on May 2, 1940, a week before the Netherlands ... - Hair (11457 bytes)
6: ...style became the new normality and has never entirely gone away since.
13: ...adornment]], a by-product of secondary [[natural selection]] once other somatic hair had been lost.
17: ...coverage in terms of number of folicles is relatively constant.
19: ... as more desirable; see [[#Types_of_hair]] and [[Vellus hair]]. This would also explain the [[sexual d...
23: ...rent parts of the hair have different cysteine levels, leading to harder or softer material. - Bess Truman (3712 bytes)
3: '''Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman''' ([[February 13]...
5: ...den curls" and "the most beautiful blue eyes." A relative said, "there never was but one girl in the w...
7: ...ant Truman left for the battlefields of France in 1918. They were married on [[June 28]], [[1919]]; they...
9: ...pon [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s death on April 12, 1945, Harry Truman took t...
13: ...r, Margaret, to become President was "most definitely not." Her reply to what she wanted to do after ... - Andrew Johnson (12662 bytes)
23: | '''Place of Death:''' || near [[Elizabethton, Tennessee]]
25: | '''Wife:''' || [[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
28: | [[Martha Patterson]] (daughter)<br />[[Eliza McCardle Johnson]]
33: ...[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]]<br/>(elected on National Union ticket)
42: ...his conciliatory policies towards the defeated rebels and his vetoes of [[civil rights]] bills embroil... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
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34: ...nt Grant]], Ulysses S. (Buck) Grant, Jr., Ellen (Nellie) Grant, and Jesse Root Grant.
39: ... bravery: at [[Battle of Molino del Rey | Molino del Rey]] and [[Battle of Chapultepec | Chapultepec]]...
41: ...uld be put to better use and appointed him [[colonel]] of the 21st Illinois Infantry (effective [[June...
43: ...e of Shiloh]], but with grim determination and timely reinforcements, Grant turned a serious reverse i... - Chester A. Arthur (12210 bytes)
7: | preceded=[[James A. Garfield]]
8: | succeeded=[[Grover Cleveland]]
10: | place of birth=[[Fairfield, Vermont]]
14: | wife=[[Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur]]
18: ...runtled office seeker, on July 2, [[1881]]. Garfield died on September 19th, and Arthur became [[Pres... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
2: <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
3: <caption><font size="+1">'''Grover Cleveland'''</font></caption>
4: ...colspan=2>[[Image:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
18: ... of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Caldwell, New Jersey|Caldwell]], [[New Jersey]]</td></tr>
21: ...><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
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