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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
7: | [[Alabama]]
8: | [[Montgomery, Alabama|Montgomery]]
11: | [[Alaska]]
12: | [[Juneau, Alaska|Juneau]]
35: | [[Delaware]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ...cle|SUV]], see [[Ford Expedition]] (especially replacing the [[Ford Excursion]]). For the science fict...
28: ...[[Willem Barents]], ([[1550]]?-[[1597]]), [[Netherlands|Dutch]], died on [[Novaya Zemlya]] [[Northeast...
30: ...st Africa]], [[China]], [[Tombouctou]] and other places
31: *[[Nicolas Baudin]] - [[18th century]] [[France|French]] ex...
38: ... - [[Ireland|Irish]] [[abbot]] who sailed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] - November 4 (10686 bytes)
1: <!-- language links at bottom -->
9: ... England|William, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
12: ...es|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
14: ... States Republican Party|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of ...
15: ...pia|Menelek of Shoa]] obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
63: *[[Richard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...|250px|'''Annie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
5: ...er reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writing a review on this ...
9: ...rse, matter and the history of mankind through [[clairvoyance]]. The two became embroiled over Leadbea...
11: ...aders. This was a clear reversal of policy from Blavatsky and Olcott's very public conversion to Budd...
13: ...eosophists from that moment on, with a subsequent lawsuit filed by his father. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Al...
7: ...he [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contracept...
9: ... returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review ...
11: ...ublished "What Every Girl Should Know," which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman...
13: ... 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazi...
3: ... Wild Heart). When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing styl...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the Star'', where the life of...
15: *La篳 de Fam�a (1960) - Family Ties
22: *Felicidade Clandestina (1971) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
6: ..., Kansas|Atchison]], [[Kansas]], Amelia loved to play with her younger sister, Muriel. This time that ...
8: ...star]]. After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was empl...
10: ...veloped a friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]]...
14: ...o land in a pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Disti...
16: ..." financed by [[Purdue University]], she started planning her round-the-world flight. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: Мари
...
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ...[[October 19]], [[1950]]) was a lyrical poet and playwright and the first woman to receive the [[Pulit...
3: ...912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her graduation ...
5: ...reenwich Village, during which time her great popularity in America was attained. She won the [[Pulitz...
7: ... also married 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly suppo...
9: ...erle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the literary critics for supporting democra... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...e an [[airplane]] pilot. She was also the first black licensed pilot in the world. Ms. Coleman was m...
4: ...Agricultural and Normal University, Oklahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
8: ...rom the Chicago Defender, who capitalized on her flamboyant personality and her beauty to promote his ...
10: ...nch flight school, and she learned while using a plane that had failed many times. Once, she saw a fel...
12: ...first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]]. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physi...
5: ...College, where her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe...
9: ... seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ...by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill.
15: ...y ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B fo... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singe...
5: ... [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in the South and al...
7: ...lroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompanim...
9: ...ver, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued touring and ...
11: ...de" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popular recordings. - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ... of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United ...
7: ...prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-Lepage]...
12: ... to have convinced Charles to believe in her by relating a private prayer that he had made the previou...
14: ...an de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Dunois)]],[[La Hire]], and [[Poton de Xaintrailles]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
1: [[Image:GretaGarbo1920s.jpg|thumb|Garbo in the 1920s]]
5: ...ildren born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson ([[1872]]-[[1944]])....
8: ...for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
12: ...at Garbo be given a contract as well. But their relationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was f...
17: ...27]]). The latter two she starred in with the popular leading man [[John Gilbert (actor)|John Gilbert]... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
3: ...e first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...here he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to dir...
10: ...tional Clay Court Championships held at [[Sainte-Claude]], turning 15 during the tournament. The outbr...
14: ...;8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...t 6 times as long as they have been using written language. Artistic painting is considered by many to...
8: ...are engraved and painted using [[red ochre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buf...
18: *[[Glaze]]
34: ...px|There is a wide variety of artists' paints available for the professional or ameteur artist.]] Dif...
50: == Popular painting styles == - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
2: ...ws'' whereas accordion buttons travel ''perpendicular to the direction of the bellows''.
6: There are several common kinds. To player familiar with one of these "systems," a concer...
10: ...uilt primarily Anglo-style concertinas) and Louis Lachenal (who built concertinas in both English and ...
13: ...her. The English concertina is typically held by placing the thumbs through thumb straps and the littl...
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