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  1. List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
    49: | [[1960]] — [[1969]]
    56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
    141: ...]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (office tower & wing)
  2. Rio de Janeiro (14538 bytes)
    9: ...aulo]] and used to be the country's capital until 1960, when [[Bras�a]] took its place.
    13: ...n January of 1501. Since the Europeans thought at first the Bay of Guanabara was actually the mouth of...
    17: ...the medieval European strategy of defense of fortified castles - the place was since then called ''Mor...
    25: ...April 21st that year, the capital of Brazil was officially moved from Rio to Bras�a.
    27: Between [[1960]] and [[1975]], Rio was a city-state (such as [[H...
  3. List of explorers (24013 bytes)
    1: ...eplacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fiction book, see [[Expedition (book)]].''
    12: ... Álvares]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]], the first to reach [[China]])
    17: ...[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a sin...
    18: *[[Roy Chapman Andrews]], (1884-1960), US explorer
    21: ...(1796—1878), [[British Empire|British]] naval officer, several expeditions to the [[Canada|Canadian]...
  4. 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]].
  5. 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]]
    48: ...klin Pierce Adams|Adams, Franklin Pierce]], (1881-1960), author
    66: ...officer)|Adams, Samuel]], (1912-1942), US naval officer
  6. Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
    2: ...equeen.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Elizabeth II in an official portrait as [[Queen of Canada]] (on the occas...
    20: ...s]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C. H. K. Marten, Prov...
    23: ...stances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, addressing other children who had b...
    27: ...her than have them educated at home. She was the first (and as of 2005 the only) female member of the...
    29: Elizabeth made her first official visit overseas in [[1947]], when she accompan...
  7. Blanche Lincoln (2886 bytes)
    10: | date of birth=[[September 30]], [[1960]]
    18: ...nche Lambert Lincoln''' (born [[September 30]], [[1960]]) is a [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat...
    22: ...exander, Jr.|Bill Alexander]] and served in his office until [[1984]]. Lincoln defeated Alexander in ...
    24: Lincoln serves on the Senate Finance Committee; Special Committee on Aging; Selec...
  8. Janet Reno (5747 bytes)
    9: |style="padding-right:1em;"|'''Term of Office'''
    27: ...ill Clinton]] on [[February 11]], [[1993]] and confirmed on [[March 11]].
    34: ...ars later. Despite her Harvard degree, she had difficulty obtaining work as a lawyer because she was a...
    36: ... in [[1976]] to become a partner in a private law firm.
    38: ...torney in November [[1978]] and was returned to office by the voters four more times. She helped refor...
  9. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    3: ...[[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active sup...
    5: ...]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive...
    9: ...marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost...
    11: Eleanor and Franklin were fifth cousins, once removed. They descended from [[C...
    15: ...ok returned and lived in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
  10. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]''...
    9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
    11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
    16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
    18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
  11. Sylvia Pankhurst (3170 bytes)
    3: ...rst''' ([[May 5]], [[1882]] - [[September 27]], [[1960]]) was a campaigner in the [[suffragette]] moveme...
    9: ...ved politically and changed its name accordingly, first to [[Women's Suffrage Federation]] and then to...
    11: ... the CP(BSTI) dissolved itself into the larger, official Communist Party.
    15: ...ed from the organisation. Sylvia was an important figure in the communist movement at the time and att...
    17: ...Haile Selassie]]. She raised funds for Ethiopia's first teaching hospital, and wrote extensively on Et...
  12. 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...
    25: * ''Shadows on the Grass'' (1960 in England and Denmark, 1961 in USA)
  13. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    2: ... ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|fo...
    11: ... and Ah dare yuh tuh hit me too. You know Ahm uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me i...
    15: ...rston's work was ignored because it simply didn't fit in with this struggle. Other popular Black auth...
    17: ...ling to [[Haiti]] in 1937, and presuming a scientific basis for tales of [[zombie]]s, which was later ...
    35: *''[[Sanctified Church]]'' ([[1981]])
  14. Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
    3: ...e was 2 months old. In [[1944]] she published her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to ...
    7: ... Rio de Janeiro, is written called Rodrigo S.M, a fictional writer.
    15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
  15. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    4: ...ed (novel)|Beloved]] won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Fiction]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave ...
    6: ... comparative literature. Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped break down the segregat...
    8: ...he [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
    12: She called [[Bill Clinton]] "the first Black president", saying "Clinton displays alm...
    32: *[[Margaret Garner (opera)|Margaret Garner]] (first performed May 2005)
  16. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
    7: ...65]] she was appointed to the [[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
  17. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
    11: ...o died hours after he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The relationship ended nine years later, when ...
    13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
    15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
    16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.]
  18. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
    2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
    8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
    18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
    24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,...
  19. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    4: ...ed from Jefferson High School in Port Arthur in [[1960]] and went to college at the [[University of Texa...
    14: ...career and featured her biggest hit single, the definitive cover version of [[Kris Kristofferson]]'s "...
    20: ...ia]], and her ashes were scattered into the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The album ''Pearl'', released six weeks...
    24: ...sh; her rasping, [[overtone]]-rich sound was significantly divergent from the soft folk and jazz-influ...
    26: ... grow after his death, Janis did not enjoy a significant revival of public interest until the late [[1...
  20. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    5: ...ering the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. Her grandfat...
    7: ...he [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "t...
    9: ...Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the film version of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] stage hit '...
    20: ...dated her show), and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.
    22: ...Lucy and Desi agreed to take a pay cut to finance filming. In return, CBS relinquished the show right...

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