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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing) - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
10: *[[Firmin Abauzit|Abauzit, Firmin]], (1679-1767), French scientist
15: ...nk Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
22: ...a Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
72: *[[Philip Abelson|Abelson, Philip Hauge]] (1913-2004)
99: *[[Abram|Abraham]], (circa 1800 BC), Biblical figure - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
5: ...y, especially during State occasions. She was the first Queen consort to attend the coronation of her ...
13: ...s May was close to her mother and acted as an unofficial secretary, helping to organise parties and so...
17: ...d sense of duty. Albert Victor was Princess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of H...
42: ...ng [[Australia]], the Duke and Duchess opened the first session of the Australian Parliament, when the...
44: ...mily_1913.JPG|thumb|left|'''''The Royal Family in 1913'''<br><small>From left to right, King George V, P... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
6: ... the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[1909]].
8: In [[1913]] her husband moved to the [[Ukraine]] and never ...
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... - Debbie Stabenow (3609 bytes)
3: ...long with [[Washington]]'s [[Maria Cantwell]] the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator.
5: ...g for much of the Senate race, but rallied in the final weeks of the campaign to unseat Abraham by a n...
9: ...mendment to the United States Constitution]] in [[1913]], U.S. Senators were selected by the state legis... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ..., in which case she was born in 1870. She was the fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber tra...
10: ...[[Zurich University]], along with other socialist figures such as [[Anatoli Lunacharsky]] and [[Leo Jo...
19: ...tic Party of Germany]] (SPD), where she sharply defined the border between her faction and the [[Revis...
25: ...]] she took part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladi...
27: ...her students was the later leader of the SPD, the first president of the [[Weimar Republic]] [[Friedri... - Christabel Pankhurst (1631 bytes)
5: ...[[Annie Kenney]] went to prison rather than pay a fine as punishment for their outburst. Their case ga...
7: ...he [[University of Manchester]]. Between 1912 and 1913 she lived in [[Paris, France]] to escape imprison... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
2: ...a retired [[African-American]] [[seamstress]] and figure in the [[American Civil Rights Movement (1955...
8: ...being treated as a second-class citizen and stood firmly. She was arrested, tried, and convicted for [...
25: Parks was not the first African-American to refuse to give up her seat...
29: ...Al Sharpton]] to launch a [[boycott]] against the film.
35: After a lifetime of activity fighting [[racism]], Parks was awarded the [[Congres... - 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|... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...nce. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] ...
7: ... Her recorded accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armst...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
21: ...to Clarksdale's black hospital, which has been confirmed, but he also maintained that she had died en ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
15: ...n|Rolf Potter Kennedy McPherson]], born March 23, 1913.
19: ... what she described as a near-death experience in 1913, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
5: ...n]] who may have had affairs with many military officers and politicians.
7: ...uilty and [[Execution by firing squad|executed by firing squad]] on [[October 15]], [[1917]]. Mata Har...
9: ...ims she blew a [[kiss]] to her killers before the firing began. A third tale claims that not only did ...
11: ...n named Pierre de Morrisac arranging to bribe the firing squad into loading their guns with [[blank (c...
15: The [[1931]] film of her final days, "Mata Hari", starred [[Greta Garbo]] in ... - Harriet Tubman (5215 bytes)
2: ...ck Moses'', was an [[African-American]] [[freedom fighter]]. An escaped slave, she worked as a [[guerr...
21: ...bman''. This was of considerable help to her sad financial state - she was not awarded a government p...
23: ...tes|United States of America]]. She died there in 1913. She told stories of her adventures until the end...
34: ...never met any person of any color who had more confidence in the voice of God." -- [[Thomas Garrett]] - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
1: [[Image:Vivlei.jpg|thumb|Vivien Leigh (1913-1967)]]
3: '''Vivien Leigh''' ([[November 5]], [[1913]] – [[July 7]], [[1967]]) was an [[England|...
7: ...rd]]'', but told no one until late [[1938]], when filming began. [[Paulette Goddard]] was close to be ...
11: ...]'', her illness was getting worse. In [[1952 in film|1952]], however, Leigh won a second [[Academy A...
19: ==Filmography== - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
28: ...e larger growing species, such as ''I. germanica, fiorenhina, pallida, variegata, amoena, flavescens, ...
30: ...in, covering of half-decayed leaves or fresh coco-fibre refuse. To this set belong ''milifolia'', ''j...
41: ...hich in probing the [[perianth]] for nectar, will first come in contact of perianth, three with the st...
44: .... Like some older sources, the influential classification by G. I. Rodionenko removed some groups (pa...
56: ...ked flowers. Between 30 and 60 species are classified in this section, depending on the authority. C... - Rose (15436 bytes)
2: ...-07_10a.jpg|240px]]| caption = ''Rosa arvensis'' (Field Rose)}}
25: The [[flower]]s have five petals (with the exception of ''[[Rosa sericea]...
27: ...ds in their droppings. Some birds, particularly [[finch]]es, also eat the seeds.
67: ...essed and filtered to make rose hip syrup, as the fine hairs surrounding the seeds are unpleasant to e...
69: There is no single system of classification for garden roses. In general, however, rose... - 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... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...ates of America]] under [[Woodrow Wilson]] from [[1913]] to [[1921]].
7: ...as [[Governor]] of [[Indiana]] from [[1909]] to [[1913]]. He was a popular speaker and active in local ...
13: ... meetings his ideas were rarely considered. In [[1913]] Wilson took the then unheard of step of meeting...
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... - Abraham Lincoln (48771 bytes)
12: | '''Term of office:'''
28: | '''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''
42: ...65]]) [[President of the United States]], and the first president from the [[United States Republican ...
46: ...f the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt t...
53: ...ky. In [[1830]], after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on governme...
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