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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]]
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]] - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ns claim he could have been born in other places, from the [[Aragonese_Empire|Crown of Aragó]] to the...
5: ...is one thing that sets off Columbus' first voyage from all of these: less than two decades later, the ...
29: ... Atlantic Ocean. The fleet came under attack by [[French privateers]] off the [[Cape of St. Vincent]],...
31: ...and]], [[Madeira]], [[Azores|the Azores]], and [[Africa]]. Columbus's brother Bartolomeo worked as a ...
33: ... to purchase sugar, and along the coasts of West Africa between [[1482]] and [[1485]], reaching the Po... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
17: *[[1899]] - [[Sigmund Freud]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is pu...
24: ... II]]: U.S. President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States C...
29: ... to be retrievable and she dies a few hours later from stress and overheating.
48: *[[1765]] - [[Pierre Girard]], [[France|French]] mathematician (d. [[1836]])
58: *[[1923]] - [[Freddy Heineken]], [[Netherlands|Dutch]] businessman... - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...dair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
37: ...ms, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
40: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Sr.|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1807-1886), grandson of John Adams, son o...
41: *[[Charles Francis Adams, Jr.|Adams, Charles Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War ...
42: *[[Charles Francis Adams (1866)|Adams, Charles Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: ...r, librettist, playwright, member of the Acad魩e fran硩se
18: *[[Anouk Aim饼Aim饬 Anouk]], (born 1932), French actor
22: *[[Aksel Airo|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
12: ...t easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion. The allied soldiers ...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970)
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
1: [[Image:Goldmeir at whitehouse.jpg|frame|right|Golda Meir was the fourth [[Prime Minist...
2: ...r, and as the fourth [[Prime Minister of Israel]] from [[March 17]], [[1969]] to [[April 11]][[1974]]....
6: ...liest memories were of her father boarding up the front door in response to rumors of a [[pogrom]]. He...
14: ...egan speaking and advocating. She hosted visitors from [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]].
16: She eventually graduated from teachers' college and taught in the public scho... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
4: ...he causes she thought were right, starting with [[freedom of thought]], [[women's rights]], [[birth co...
7: ... to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and progress.
11: ...cal leaders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion t...
13: ...his brother Nitya were brought up by Theosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed...
15: ...ife, but never really succeeded. The two remained friends, though, until the end of her life. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
1: [[Image:RosaLuxemburg.jpg|right|frame|Rosa Luxemburg]]
2: ...right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which were sent in by the government. L...
8: ...r of the "Proletariat", a left-wing Polish party, from [[1886]]. The Proletariat had been founded in [...
10: ... flying colours. After fleeing to [[Switzerland]] from imminent detention in [[1889]], she attended [[...
19: In [[1898]], Luxemburg obtained [[Germany|German]] [[citize... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
1: [[Image:Emmeline_Pankhurst.jpg|frame|Emmeline Pankhurst]]
3: ...28]]) was one of the founders of the British [[suffragette]] movement. It is the name of "Mrs Pankhur...
5: ...s included the notorious [[Annie Kenney]], the suffragette "martyr", [[Emily Davison]] and the compose...
7: ...ter seeing her most ardently pursued goal come to fruition: the right to vote for women in the United ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
5: ... a steamship who died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1898. Her mother, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking...
9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
27: ...,000 and complete control over her films, ranging from script to the final cut. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ng even food and sleep to study. After graduating from high school, she suffered a [[nervous breakdown...
7: ...active]] than the uranium extracted from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pi...
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
17: ... to matter). France at the time was still reeling from the effects of the [[Dreyfus affair]], so the s...
19: ...n]]. Marie personally provided the tubes, milked from the radium she purified. Promptly after the wa... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
12: ..., and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...y, mathematics and natural science in addition to French, German, ancient history, philosophy and reli...
21: ...Butler]] "lady in charge" of the hospitals at the front of the [[Army of the James]].
23: ...age]] movement. She also became acquainted with [[Frederick Douglass]] and became an activist for blac...
27: ...nd its humanitarian work during the war between [[France]] and [[Prussia]]. Created in [[1864]], the I... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American ...
4: ...]] ([[1602]]-[[1681]]), whose offspring include [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]], Jane Delano attended Co...
6: In [[1898]], during the [[Spanish-American War]], Jane Dela...
10: Jane Delano died in [[France]] while on a Red Cross mission and was interr... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
6: ...invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ottomans are e...
26: The current location of Cairo was too far from the ancient course of the Nile to support a cit...
28: ...t]], which lay close to an ancient Egyptian canal from the Nile to the Red Sea.
30: ...Abbasid]]s, and contains the first [[mosque]] in Africa.
32: ... settlement grew into a small city. The [[North Africa]]n [[Shiite]] [[Fatimid]] Dynasty conquered Eg... - John Adams (18716 bytes)
22: ...neration descendant of Henry Adams, who emigrated from [[Devon]], [[England]], to [[Massachusetts]] in...
24: ...1758]], he was admitted to the [[bar_(law)|bar]]. From an early age he developed the habit of writing ...
35: ...of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time onward, Adams championed the establis...
37: ... "these colonies are, and of a right ought to be, free and independent states," acting as champion of ...
39: ...a committee with [[Thomas Jefferson]], [[Benjamin Franklin]], [[Robert R. Livingston]] and [[Roger She... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
21: ...es]]:'''</td><td>[[Rose Cleveland]] (sister)<br>[[Frances Cleveland]] (wife)</td></tr>
42: ...Swiss cheese and a chop at Louis's instead of the French stuff I shall find."
44: ...dent to be married in the [[White House]] itself. Frances Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in the...
46: ...[[American Civil War]] veterans whose claims were fraudulent. When Congress, pressured by the [[Grand ...
54: ...s it is now when we come back again....four years from today." - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
14: * The Roman era from [[80 BC]] until the arrival of the Arabs in [[6...
15: * The Arab city from [[641]] until [[1798]] when Napoleon arrived (y...
16: * The modern city from [[1798]] (red).
21: ...ects metal effigies on the beach which succeed in frightening the monsters away.
23: ...ehind the screen of the Pharos island and removed from the silt thrown out by Nile mouths. An Egyptia... - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...arth is not exactly known yet and the predictions from different accretion models vary between several...
4: ...s Ussher]] of [[Armagh]], [[Ireland]], calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and ...
6: ...ho thought the Earth and [[universe]] had existed from eternity.
9: ...tury]] that the Earth had been created separately from the rest of the universe, several hundred thous...
11: ... mostly speculative, but in [[1779]] the [[France|French]] naturalist the [[Georges-Louis Leclerc, Com...
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