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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
    81: ...1832]], [[1889]] — [[1891]] (wing added), [[1909]] — [[1911]] (wings added)
    109: | [[1896]] — [[1902]], [[1909]] — [[1912]] (wings added)
    141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
  2. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    13: * [[1869]] - The first issue of the scientific journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is publi...
    14: ...es G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
    16: ...] - [[City & South London Railway]]: [[London]]'s first deep-level [[London Underground|tube]] railway...
    21: ...ish]] archaeologist [[Howard Carter]] and his men find the entrance to King [[Tutankhamen]]'s tomb in ...
    22: ...ellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman governor in the [[United States]].
  3. Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
    4: ...d the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler]].
    6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved...
    8: ...woman member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance...
    10: ...m of her position. However, Nancy Astor was often fiercely critical of the [[Nazis]], and her husband ...
    12: ...speech, first referred to the men of the 8th Army fighting the [[Italian campaign]] as the ''[[D-Day D...
  4. Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
    6: ...ist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
    10: ...olleagues assembled in Dublin as the [[First Dᩬ|first incarnation]] of [[Dᩬ ɩreann]], a new Irish...
    12: ...et rank from April to August 1919, she became the first Irish female [[Cabinet Minister]]. She held t...
    14: ...]] cause in the [[Irish Civil War]], and joined [[Fianna Fᩬ]] on its foundation in [[1926]]. She was...
  5. Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
    4: ...cialism]] and [[workers' rights]]. She was a prolific writer and a powerful orator.
    7: ...osophical Society]] she went to [[India]] for the first time (in [[1893]]). Thereafter she devoted muc...
    13: ...ts from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father.
  6. Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
    3: ... of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated ...
    13: ... with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an important figure of the anarchist movement in the United State...
    21: .... After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, they were released due t...
    32: ...y may even have shared an apartment (see also the film [[Reds]]).
    38: ...n]] to support the [[Spanish Revolution]] and the fight against [[Franco]]'s [[fascism]], known as the...
  7. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    5: ...erving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
    7: ...nd the Baron returned to Denmark. The divorce was finalized in 1925. Karen Blixen remained in Kenya an...
    17: * ''The de Cats Family'' (1909, published in ''[[Tilskueren]]'')
  8. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
    9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
    11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
    13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
    18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|...
  9. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    4: ...aute, a fellow lawyer. In [[1932]], she wrote her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]]...
    6: ...[[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouv...
  10. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    13: ... in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a ...
    15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
    21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
    23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
    50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
  11. Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
    10: ...y of her peers, Valadon received acclaim and some financial success during her lifetime.
    18: ...he said, with "nothing but an icy loneliness that fills the head with emptiness and the heart with sad...
    20: In [[1894]] she was the first woman admitted to the [[Soci鴩 Nationale des ...
    26: ...kbroker Paul Mousis in [[1896]] failed, when in [[1909]] the then 44-year old Valadon left Mousis for 23...
  12. Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
    5: ...]. She attended [[Vassar College]], graduating in 1909.
    18: ...ly motivated behaviors interfered with military efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution...
  13. Virginia Apgar (394 bytes)
    1: Dr. '''Virginia Apgar''' ([[June 7]], [[1909]] - [[August 7]], [[1974]]) specialised in [[anes...
    3: ...[baby|babies]]. It is administered one minute and five minutes after birth, and sometimes also at 10 m...
  14. Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
    4: A descendant of one of the first settlers to America, [[Philippe de la Noye|Phi...
    6: ...ning School for Nurses where she remained until [[1909]] when she was made Superintendent of the United ...
  15. Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
    15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
    19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
    23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
    25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
    27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta...
  16. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
    2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
    10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
    12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
    14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
    16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],...
  17. Relic (11473 bytes)
    7: ...tten 150-160 AD). A source often cited for the efficacy of relics that are objects is the passage in ...
    14: ...ant usage of ''"sanctus"'' and ''"virtus"'', the first with its familiar meaning of "sacred" or "holy...
    19: ...he inhabitants of these cities were well ready to fight for his body,which the people of Tours manage...
    24: ===Roman Catholic classification and prohibitions===
    26: ...ches and cathederals worldwide must be at least a finger or small bone, etc.
  18. Matthew Henson (1087 bytes)
    2: ...eographic North Pole]] with [[Robert Peary]] in [[1909]]. However, some have estimated that Peary's part...
  19. President of the United States (42878 bytes)
    5: ...d is usually one of the world's best-known public figures. During the [[Cold War]], the President was ...
    7: ...head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world in nation...
    11: == Requirements to hold office ==
    14: ...mmigrants to American society. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because ...
    16: ...wo four-year terms or a maximum of ten years in office should he have succeeded to the Presidency prev...
  20. Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
    7: He served as [[Governor]] of [[Indiana]] from [[1909]] to [[1913]]. He was a popular speaker and acti...
    15: ...l on; thus in 1916 Wilson and Marshall became the first President and Vice President team to be re-ele...
    17: ...ent. Also in his second term Marshall became the first Vice President to conduct [[United States Cabi...
    19: ...scertain his condition until their final day in office.
    29: ...uipped, "What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar."

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