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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
29: | [[1886]] — [[1907]]
72: | [[Frankfort, Kentucky|Frankfort]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
6: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
7: ...[15th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of the [[African]] coast)
8: *[[Francisco de Almeida]] ([[16th century]] [[Portugues...
11: *[[Francisco Alvarez]] ([[16th century]] [[Portuguese]]...
25: *[[Samuel Baker]], Africa - List of people by name: Ah (925 bytes)
8: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Ahlfors, Lars Valerian]], ([[1907]]-[[1996]]), Finnish mathematician
14: *[[Alfred Aho|Aho, Alfred V.]], computer scientist - 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
28: *[[Joseph Aiuppa|Aiuppa, Joseph]], (1907-1997), Chicago [[mafia]] boss - 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 ...
18: # [[William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]] (1907-1966)
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - 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.
9: ...lected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the previous president [[Henr...
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... - 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 [[...
21: ...leadership refused, and in [[1910]] she split off from Kautsky. - Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
3: ...r her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
5: ... Dinesen]] won the British [[Victoria Cross]] and French [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[...
11: ...fered for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc...
16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osc... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
3: ...t to the [[Montparnasse]] Quarter in [[Paris]], [[France]] to study at [[Marie Vassilieff]]'s Academy...
5: ...ni, painter and Jew". In addition to making close friends with [[Amedeo Modigliani]], [[Pablo Picasso]...
7: ...fter divorcing Kristian, she took up with another free spirit, composer [[E.J Moeran]].
11: ...portrait of a very modest Nina Hamnett painted by Fry.
13: ...s favourite hangout as well as that of her friend from her home town, [[Augustus John]], and later ano... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
7: ...g for stardom, and she landed a leading role in a 1907 [[Broadway]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', w...
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. - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...t and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
7: ...r, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Radcliffe College]] in 1897 followed by two y...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity ga...
12: From 1903 to 1912 she lived in [[Paris]] with her br...
13: ... her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael's business. - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
4: ...her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study with [[Max Planck]] and the chemist [[...
8: ...]], which is named for [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years...
10: ...in]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, which led ...
12: ...er were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Stra߭ann]]. On a visit to the USA in 1946 she...
17: *Otto Robert Frisch, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essa... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
8: She received her doctorate in [[1907]] under [[Paul Gordan]], and rapidly built a worl... - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eganderson.jpg|frame|Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]]
7: ...arted to enable poor women to obtain medical help from qualified practitioners of their own sex. The ...
9: ...dily at the development of the New hospital, and (from 1874) at the creation of the London Medical Sch...
15: * she took part in the [[Suffragette]] movement - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
19: ...ted to each other and they became life-long close friends. Herbert was instrumental in facilitating Ni...
33: ...anizing patient care. Although she met resistance from the doctors and officers, her changes vastly im...
45: ...r030502 CBC story: 'Florence Nightingale suffered from bipolar disorder']
47: In response to an invitation from Queen Victoria, and despite the limitations of ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...costal]] missionary from [[Ireland]], in December 1907 while attending a revival meeting at the urging o...
19: After the birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious h...
25: ...join her on her religious travels, he soon became frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed...
45: ...erce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. Many broadcast histories claim McPherson...
53: ...one parishioner drowning, and another diver dying from exposure. - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
1: ...:Edith Cavell - Project Gutenberg eText 14676.jpg|frame|right|'''Edith Cavell''']]
7: ...reds of soldiers from the allied forces to escape from occupied Belgium to the [[Netherlands]], in vio... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...ad]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
20: In 1944, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Co...
24: ...falling star in the Sixties. Bankhead never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricatu...
26: ...ad died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further by [[emphyse...
28: ...he was married only once, to actor [[John Emery]] from 1937-1941. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
2: '''Katharine Houghton Hepburn''' ([[May 12]], [[1907]] – [[June 29]], [[2003]]) was an iconic st...
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
6: ...gust of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, passed away unexpectedly.
8: ...time as "Coon Shouting" in which she performed [[African American]] influenced songs. In the 1895 [[B...
10: ...y," with music written by [[George M. Cohan]]. In 1907 she married her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same ...
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