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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
55: | [[Illinois]]
56: | [[Springfield, Illinois|Springfield]]
135: | [[North Carolina]]
136: | [[Raleigh, North Carolina|Raleigh]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
1: ... [[travelogue]], the [[History of Science and Technology]] and [[Biography]]. Also, see [[Internationa...
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17: ...st at the [[South Pole]], first to navigate the [[Northwest Passage]] in a single ship
22: ...y]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[North America]])
26: *[[Heinrich Barth]] ([[1821]]-[[1865]]), Northern and Central Africa - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in...
4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
9: ...illiam, Prince of Orange]]. They would later be known as [[William and Mary]].
14: ... a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecutive terms.
15: ...legiance of a large majority of the [[Ethiopia]]n nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned [[emp... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...s, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
7: ...893]]). Thereafter she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to In... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ...h Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of A...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
3:
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The Hour of the...
16: *A Ma磠no Escuro (1961)
27: *Onde estivestes de Noite? (1974)
35: ...磯 (2001) (letters exchanged with [[Fernando Sabino]]) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with th...
13: ...schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[January]] [[1936]...
15: ...Buddy' Rogers]] (1904-1999), a fresh-faced actor known as "America's Boy Friend" and later a bandleade...
17: == Partial chronology ==
29: ...as praised by critics but avoided by her fans for not sticking to her little girl image. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and ...
8: ...d in flying and began taking lessons from [[Neta Snook]]. With financial help from some of her family,...
10: ...n attorney from Boston, but in November of 1928 announced that the engagement had been broken and soon...
14: ...s of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Honor]] from the French Government, and the Gold Medal...
16: ...to fly solo across the [[Pacific Ocean]] from [[Honolulu]] to [[Oakland, California]]. Later that year... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: '''Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: &#...
5: ...try|Symbolist]] movements in Russia. Her work was not looked kindly upon by [[Stalin]] and the then Bo...
8: ... to found the Alexander III Museum, which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetae...
10: ...a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly di...
12: ... her imagination in childhood games. It should be noted that there were many Russian ''魩gr駧 revolu... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
1: ... the [[Pulitzer Prize for Poetry]]. She was also known for her unconventional and Bohemian lifestyle a...
3: ...alled "Vincent" by her close friends and family), Norma, and Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]....
9: ...d war effort during [[World War II]]. Merle Rubin noted: "She seems to have caught more flak from the ...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920):
16: It will not last the night; - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: '''Bessie Coleman''', known as "Queen Bess" ([[January 26]], [[1892]] - [[A...
4: ...red Agricultural and Normal University, Oklahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
6: ... in her home town, so she moved to [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]] where she joined two of her brothers ...
10: ... she was black and a woman. Coleman was the only non-white student at her French flight school, and s...
14: ...stalled and crashed on February 22, 1922. As her notoriety grew, she was invited to make a film about... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Pale...
8: ...t to 500 (10% of the student body) and women were not entitled to a degree from the University. She pa...
12: ...oject had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went prog...
15: ... commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or s...
18: ...scovery within three months, if he and Watson had not published their paper. In fact, she had already ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...4]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and...
5: ... a show that also included [[Ma Rainey]], who did not teach Bessie to sing but probably helped her dev...
7: ...ncluded some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], ...
11: ... for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bess...
27: ...ings. She asked me if I was in school, and when I nodded, she said, 'You better stay there, 'cause you... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...]]. Many people therefore regard Joan of Arc as a notable woman of valor, vigor, and faith.
7: ...and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
10: [[Image:JoanOfArcLarge.jpeg|350px|right|thumb|[[Jules Bastien-L...
12: ... private prayer that he had made the previous [[1 November]], although he additionally insisted on hav...
14: ...iers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Count of Dunois)]],[[La Hire]], and [[Poton de Xaintrailles]]. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: .... She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...lthough as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that ...
10: ...ondon)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
20: ... (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New Y...
36: ... her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple) - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...e department store where she worked. That led to another short movie, which was seen by comedy directo...
19: Having achieved enormous success as a silent [[movie star]], she was ...
21: ...鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the advent of sound and his [...
23: ...n for always having a closed set to all visitors. No one could watch as her scenes were shot. Garbo ap...
25: ...n film|1935]], but she insisted on being cast in another screen version of [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy's]] c... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
8: ...rtment of the [[Oise]]), some 70 [[kilometre|km]] north of [[Paris]]. During her youth, she suffered f...
14: ...s Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in tennis history, ...
16: Not only her performances on the court were noted, however. She garnered much attention in the m...
18: ...hen teamed up with [[Max Décugis]] to win another gold medal in the mixed doubles. She was elim...
24: ...y several exhibition matches against the [[Norway|Norwegian-born]] US Open champion, [[Molla Bjurstedt... - Painting (4567 bytes)
1: ....jpg|thumb|The [[Mona Lisa]] is perhaps the best-known artistic painting in the [[Western world]].]]
8: ...red ochre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are exam...
105: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
2: ...s and are distinguished from an [[accordion]] (piano or button) by the direction of their button trave...
9: ...Anglo concertina mad by C. Jeffries around 1910. Note three rows of buttons.]]
10: ...ing or contracting the bellows without sounding a note) or a drone. Anglo concertina is often associa...
13: ...etal finger rests, leaving three fingers free for noting.
16: ...e overlap (like a two-manual organ), and the same notes pushing and pulling. The instrument is held ...
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