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  1. Grapefruit (4275 bytes)
    2: ...|250px|A basket of grapefruit]] | caption = A basket of grapefruit}}
    18: ...f which the 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has a [[patent]]. The fruit has only become pop...
    20: ...lo]] (1905), the [[minneola]] (1931) and the [[sweetie]] (1984).
    22: ...e ''Citrus paradisi''. Its true origins were not determined until the [[1950s]]. This led to the offic...
    26: ... [[glycemic index]] is able to help the body's [[metabolism]] burn fat.
  2. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    3: {| {{prettytable}}
    13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
    87: | [[Massachusetts]]
    88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
    141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
  3. History of China (45919 bytes)
    2: ...union, and was occasionally conquered by external ethnicities, of which many were eventually assimilat...
    7: ...n show early habitation; however, any connection between these people and modern Chinese is speculativ...
    14: ... the [[Xia Dynasty]], and that this model was perpetuated in the successor [[Shang Dynasty|Shang]] and...
    18: ...) to some 4,000 years ago, but this date has not yet been corroborated. Some archaeologists connect t...
    22: ...]], [[Zhengzhou]] and [[Shangcheng]]. The second set, from the later Shang or Yin period, consists of ...
  4. List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
    11: ...ean Acheson|Acheson, Dean]], (1893-1971), USA Secretary
    12: ...Goodrich Acheson|Acheson, Edward Goodrich]] (1856-1931)
    51: *[[Peter Ackroyd|Ackroyd, Peter]], (born 1949), English author, novelist
    52: *[[Milton Acorn|Acorn, Milton]], (1923-1986), poet
    57: *[[Oscar Zeta Acosta|Acosta, Oscar Zeta]] (1935-1974)
  5. List of people by name: Ag (3474 bytes)
    2: __FORCETOC__
    4: *[[Pope Agapetus I|Agapetus I, Pope]], (pope 535-536)
    5: *[[Pope Agapetus II|Agapetus II, Pope]], (pope 946-955)
    6: *[[John Agapetus|Agapetus, John]], patriarch of Constantinople
    7: ...jit Agarkar|Agarkar, Ajit]], (1977-), Indian cricketer
  6. List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
    3: *[[Sin Ai|Ai, Sin]], poet
    9: ...], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
    11: *[[Conrad Aiken|Aiken, Conrad]], (1889-1973), poet
    17: *[[Alvin Ailey|Ailey, Alvin]], (1931-1985), dancer, choreographer
    19: *[[Danny Ainge|Ainge, Danny]], (born 1959), [[basketball]] player, coach, [[baseball]] player
  7. Hattie Caraway (2502 bytes)
    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 ...
    17: ...receiving support from a successful coalition of veterans, women, and union members.
    25: ...Church, Virginia]]. She is buried in Westlawn Cemetery in [[Jonesboro, Arkansas]].
  8. Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
    3: ...and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated to the [[United States]]...
    6: ...e area, she decided to work in a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was ...
    9: ...ersner remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
    13: In New York City she met and lived with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an ...
    18: ...erdict off of the testimony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the l...
  9. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    7: ...tation until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
    9: She returned to Denmark and began writing in earnest, pub...
    30: * ''Letters from Africa, 1914-1931'' (posthumous 1981, USA)
    31: * ''Karen Blixen i Danmark: Breve 1931-1962'' (posthumous 1996, Denmark)
  10. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    2: ...n '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
    6: ...segregation of literature from small minority subsets ([[African-American Literature]] or [[Hispanic L...
    10: ...F. Goheen]] Professor of the Humanities at [[Princeton University]].
    29: *[[Dreaming Emmet]] (performed 1986)
    31: ==Libretto==
  11. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    7: place_of_birth=[[Saint Petersburg]], [[Russia]] |
    11: ...apitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Randian [[hero]], a man whose ability...
    19: ...munist]] message, attracting the attention of Soviet officials). There is a story told that she named ...
    22: ...t her eye. The two were married in [[1929]]. In [[1931]], Rand became a [[naturalized citizen]] of the U...
    28: ...as Shrugged]]'' is often seen as Rand's most complete statement of Objectivist philosophy in any of he...
  12. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
    7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
    13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
    17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
    29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating...
  13. Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
    6: ...nger sister, Muriel. This time that they spent together sheltered Amelia from her father and his [[alc...
    8: ...employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up wi...
    10: ... crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]]. Earhart referred to the marriage as a "partner...
    14: ...d the Gold Medal of the [[National Geographic Society]] from President [[Herbert Hoover]].
    20: ... 22,000 miles (35,000 km) of the journey was completed. The remaining 7,000 miles (11,000 km) would al...
  14. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    4: ...ield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying a...
    10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan...
    12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[Ca...
    14: ... had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs.
    18: ...[1934]] in a [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]] air race. Johns...
  15. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    3: ...f was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbur...
    9: ...led as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], ...
    13: ...imultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative en...
    15: ...ur life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
    20: ...anon and the future of women in education and society.
  16. Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
    6: ...o tease her by commenting that French women were better than African-American women because French wom...
    8: At the barbershop, Coleman meet many influential men from the black community, in...
    12: ... [[1921]], she became a media sensation when she returned to the United States. Invited to important e...
    14: ... about her life. Ultimately, she walked off the set because she felt the script stereotyped blacks. ...
    16: ...ntrols. The plane was an old, unsafe, cobbled-together wreck. Her friends and family did not conside...
  17. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: .... Hopper began teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
    12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Comma...
    16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
    18: ...[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. Her primary ac...
  18. Helen Sawyer Hogg (1921 bytes)
    5: ...on star clusters. She received her doctorate in [[1931]] from [[Radcliffe College]].
    9: ...85]], she married [[F. E. L. Priestley]] (Francis Ethelbert Louis Priestley) ([[1905]]&ndash;[[1988]])...
  19. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    5: ... received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. J...
    7: ...d pairs of neutrons and protons like to couple together in what is called spin orbit coupling. This is...
    17: ...ia Goeppert Mayer symposium each year bringing together female researchers to discuss current science.
  20. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
    7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
    11: ...red her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and ...
    13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
    15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...

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