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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
21: | [[1895]] — [[1915]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
205: | [[1886]] — [[1890]], [[1915]] — [[1917]] (House & senate chambers) - History of China (45919 bytes)
7: ...ages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was found at [[Banpo]], [[Xi'an]].
14: ...gust Ones and the Five Emperors#The Five Emperors|Five Emperors]] (三皇五帝). ...
22: ...tings. [[Anyang]] in modern day Henan has been confirmed as the last of the six capitals of the Shang ...
28: ...C)|Zhou]] king until [[256 BC]], he was largely a figurehead and held little real power.
30: ...ang Di|First Emperor]] (Shi Huangdi), forming the first Chinese empire under the [[Qin Dynasty]]. This... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
15: *[[Adam]], Biblical figure, first man
34: *[[Abigail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
41: ...ivil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
86: *[[Filippo Addis|Addis, Filippo]], (1884-1974), writer - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ... her as "the only man in the Cabinet." She is the first (and to date only) female [[Prime Minister of ...
16: ...he joined the Labor [[Zionist]] Organization in [[1915]]. She married Morris Myerson in [[1917]] and be...
20: ...d to join Kibbutz Merhavia and was turned down at first, but eventually accepted into the community. ...
30: ...nsjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's first passport and sent to the United States to rais...
32: ...eir handing certificates to the [[USSR|Soviet]] officials.]] - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...ing painting at the [[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-...
8: ...ly, but art supplies and models were difficult to find in the small town. Her father continued to resi...
12: The jury accepted her first painting for the [[Paris Salon]] in [[1872]]. ...
20: ...]]). [[Mary Cassatt]]. Oil on canvas. [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]].]]
21: ...orward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified herself with any art movement and experimented ... - 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|... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...rst novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[1915]]. This novel was originally titled "Melymbrosia,...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
19: ...aching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home and was on the road preaching f...
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...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch... - Ellen G. White (5403 bytes)
3: ...) ([[November 26]],[[1827]] – [[July 16]],[[1915]]) was co-founder of [[Seventh-day Adventist Chur...
5: Ellen White was a prolific [[writer]]. She is said to be the most translate...
19: ...es, she felt that she was a guilty sinner and was filled with terror about being eternally lost. She d...
23: ...tment]] of [[1844]] that Ellen started having her first visions. At random times, often when in church...
27: The first vision was a depiction of the [[Millerites|Adv... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
3: '''Denise Madeleine Bloch''', born in [[1915]] in [[France]] - died [[February 5]], [[1945]] i... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
5: ...''' ([[December 4]], [[1865]] - [[October 12]], [[1915]]) is one of the few famous heroines of [[World W...
7: ...ence. She made no defence and was [[Execution by firing squad |shot]] at dawn on October 12, becoming... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: Countess '''Krystyna Skarbek''' ([[May 1]], [[1915]] - [[June 15]], [[1952]]) was a [[Poland|Polish-...
7: ...ngly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Ge...
11: ...part of a leg in a prewar hunting accident, was exfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personne...
13: Upon their arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to...
15: ...]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Acade...
3: ...ermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrio...
5: ...emy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). Th...
7: ...She fell in love with him while performing in his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]'' ([[1950]])....
9: ...her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. It is consider... - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
12: ...ed ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at home.
16: ...rious injury, her right leg was [[amputate]]d, confining her to a [[wheelchair]] for several months. ...
22: The actress La Berma, a [[fictional character]] in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In ... - Piccolo heckelphone (2734 bytes)
1: ...akness in the romantic orchestra: namely, an insufficient number of truly powerful woodwind instrument...
3: ... the high trumpet part in the last movement. In [[1915]], Strauss requested that a piccolo heckelphone i...
7: ...hone never caught on, due to a number of factors. Firstly, its outlandish name makes immediate recogni...
9: ...serial numbers, but not fitted with keys. Four or five are known to be on display at the Heckel museum... - Ukulele (6345 bytes)
5: ...e marriage of the raj㯠and the braguinha was verified in 1998 in Funchal, Madeira, when the internati...
7: ...d Bill his first instrument for 75[[cent|?]] in [[1915]].
11: ...ery popular in vaudeville in the days before amplification. The tension and tone are a little brighte...
13: ...rant tuning is the characteristic that most identified the original ukulele.
42: The Tahitian ukulele is significantly different from other ukuleles because it do... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ars, the exact age of the Earth is difficult to define. This article describes the modern dating metho...
3: == Prescientific notions ==
4: In the centuries preceding the [[scientific revolution]], the age of the Earth was determine...
8: == First concepts ==
9: ...he founder of [[Russia]]n science, was one of the first to undertake this exercise, suggesting in the ... - Plate tectonics (27764 bytes)
3: ...t notably around the so-called "[[Pacific Ring of Fire]]").
10: ...he Pacific Plate's [[Pacific Ring of Fire|Ring of Fire]] being most active and famous. These boundarie...
12: ...lie below sea level (for example the entire [[Pacific Plate]], which carries no continent), while the ...
26: ...tes move relative to each other such that the Pacific plate is moving [[north]] with respect to North ...
29: ...g this resource and is expected to be the world's first [[hydrogen economy]] within twenty years. - Republic of Ireland (25543 bytes)
1: ...ion of Ireland|Irish constitution]] the state's official name is simply '''Ireland''' (Irish: ''[[ɩre...
13: national_anthem = ''[[Amhrᮠna bhFiann]]'' |
14: official_languages = [[Irish language|Irish]], [[Engli...
58: ...ted term for the state, ''Ireland'' is used for official purposes such as treaties, government and leg...
60: ...'. Historically the state has had more than one official title. The revolutionary state established by...
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