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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
2: This is a '''list of U.S. state capitals''':
13: | [[1923]] — [[1931]]
52: | [[Boise, Idaho|Boise]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]] - Timeline of the united states history 1990 to present (16426 bytes)
4: ...he spill becomes the worst oil spill in American history.
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8: ...ple are killed in the deadliest American natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina.
9: ...September 11 attacks, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs.
10: - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in [[leap year]]...
10: ...t Camillo Benso di Cavour]] became the [[prime minister]] of [[Piedmont (Italy)|Piedmont]]-[[Kingdom o...
13: ...ic journal ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]'' is published.
14: ...ne]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
17: ...d]]'s ''[[The Interpretation of Dreams]]'' is published. - Burundi (13403 bytes)
1: ...ountry is land-locked, much of its western border is adjacent to [[Lake Tanganyika]] where it enjoys a...
3: ...t faces in seeking to bring an end to the supremacist claims of the ruling [[Tutsi]] minority with the...
13: ...ndi]] and [[French language|French]]. [[Swahili]] is widely spoken.|
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38: established_dates = From [[Belgium]] <br> [[July 1]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
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4: *[[Sani Abacha|Abacha, Sani]], (1943-1998), [[List of Presidents of Nigeria|dictator]] of [[Nigeria...
5: ...aristo]], (1675-1742), Italian composer and violinist
8: *[[Abaris]], (circa 8th century BC), priest of [[Apollo (go...
9: ...ti]] ''aka'' Niccolo Dell'Abbato, (1512-1571), artist - List of people by name: Ac (3800 bytes)
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5: *[[Louis Acaries|Acaries, Louis]], (born 1954), boxer, former world title challen...
16: *[[Amy Acker|Acker, Amy Louise]] (born 1976)
32: ...t Christian Wilhelm Ackermann|Ackermann, Ernst Christian Wilhelm]] (1761-1835)
33: ... Christian Benedict Ackermann|Ackermann, Georg Christian Benedict]] (1763-1833) - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
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8: ...Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
16: *[[Adam of Chillenden]], Archbishop of Canterbury
21: ...waetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
25: ..., Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist - Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
4: ...ypt|Cleopatra V Tryphaena]]. The name "Cleopatra" is [[Greek language|Greek]] for "father's glory"; he...
6: ...most famous of all of ancient Egypt's rulers, and is usually known as simply '''Cleopatra''', all of h...
9: ...rilinear]] fashion, the Kings had to marry their sisters in order to be qualified to rule. Following t...
11: ... himself with Caesar. Caesar was so repelled by this treachery that he seized the Egyptian capital and...
13: ... Caesar refused to make the boy his heir, naming his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead... - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
7: ...e years — longer than that of any other British monarch. As well as being [[Monarch|queen]] of t...
9: ...ria was marked by a great expansion of the [[British Empire]]. The [[Victorian era|Victorian Era]] wa...
12: ...Princess Viktoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld]], the sister of Princess Charlotte's widower [[Leopold I of...
14: ...erend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
16: ...e. Since the law at that time made no special provision for a child monarch, Victoria would have been ... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
2: ...dash; [[October 1]], [[1992]]), German peace activist and [[German Green Party|Green]] politician, was...
6: While working at the [[European Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]),...
10: ...ng a new vision uniting ecological concerns with disarmament, social justice and human rights."'' (See...
12: ... without her consent. (Details of this event are discussed for instance at [http://www.motherjones.com...
14: ...l Petra Kelly Prize [http://www.boell.de/en/10_preise/1460.html] for [[human rights]], [[ecology]] and... - Alexandra Kollontai (3203 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1952]]) was a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] [[Communist]] revolutionary, first as a member of the [[Mens...
5: .... However, she came to dislike aspects of Bolshevism and opted to join the Mensheviks.
7: ...he was well recognized later for [[socialist feminism]]. The Zhenodtel was eventually closed by [[Stal...
11: ...rs' Opposition]]. However, [[Lenin]] managed to dissolve the Workers' Opposition, after which Kollont...
13: ... he sent Kollontai abroad as a [[diplomat]]. In [[1923]], she was appointed Soviet Ambassador to [[Norwa... - Constance Georgine, Countess Markiewicz (3360 bytes)
1: [[ Image:Irish_Stamp_Countess_Markievicz.jpg|right|thumb|Counte...
2: ...was an [[Ireland|Irish]] politician and [[nationalist]].
4: ... visited the house, and were influenced by his artistic and political ideas.
6: ...]] in [[1908]], and founding the militant nationalist boy scouting movement [[Fianna ɩreann]] in [[19...
8: ...government. The sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and she was released under the amnesty of ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...[[United States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sange...
5: ...ed William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, foll...
7: ... Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and device...
9: ...lth for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
11: ... sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: Pickford was born '''Gladys Louise Smith''' in [[Toronto, Ontario]], [[Canada]] (fo...
7: ...he play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickfor...
9: ...d from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inability to acc...
11: ...and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
15: ...g "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...ry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...o cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...nation. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...ionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until Ju...
14: ...ilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Volo... - Suzanne Valadon (4068 bytes)
4: ...her career. In the [[Montmartre]] quarter of [[Paris]] she pursued her interest in art.
6: ...ueRoom.jpg|thumb|300px|left|''The Blue Room''. ([[1923]]). [[Suzanne Valadon]].]]
8: ...er Hair''. Valadon haunted the sleazy bars of Paris and in [[1889]] Toulouse-Lautrec painted her in t...
12: ...lo]], he became one of Montmartre's well known artists.
18: ...on would be the only relationship of the kind in his life, leaving him, he said, with "nothing but an ... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
5: ...ned. She won the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]] in 1923, for ''The Harp-Weaver, and Other Poems''.
7: ...ld widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly supported her career and too...
9: ...cracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fascism." - Ruth Benedict (3045 bytes)
3: ...8]]) was an [[United States|American]] anthropologist.
7: ... of Philosophy|PhD]] and joining the faculty in [[1923]]. [[Margaret Mead]] was one of her students.
11: ...o appear in every human society. (Her critics dismiss these patterns as a "tiny subset" of the whole.)
15: Benedict was among the leading social anthropologists who were recruited by the U.S. Government for w...
18: ...litary efficiency, approvals needed for its full distribution did not come. - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...can]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]].
5: ...n Museum of Natural History, New York City, as assistant curator, eventually serving as its curator of...
7: ...dent, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for th...
12: ...word to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's advisor, [[Franz Boas]], wrote of its significance that
13: ... definite ethical standards is not universal. It is instructive to know that standards differ in the ... - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
1: [[Image:Lise_Meitner.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Lise Meitner]]
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [[physics|physicist]] who studied [[radioactivity]] and [[nuclear ph...
4: ...her knowledge of physics and his knowledge of chemistry.
6: In [[1918]], they discovered the element [[protactinium]].
8: ... [[Pierre Victor Auger]], a French scientist who discovered the effect two years later.
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