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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
53: | [[1905]] — [[1913]], [[1919]] — [[1920]] (wings added)
88: | [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]]
141: | [[1920]] — [[1924]], [[1931]] — [[1934]] (of... - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
22: *[[Pêro de Barcelos]] ([[15th century]]/[[16th century]] [[Portuguese...
33: *[[Joseph René Bellot]] [[France|French]] [[Arctic]] ex...
42: *[[Lafayette Bunnell]], (1824-1903), described [[Yosemite Valley]]
47: ...ian]] navigator in [[England|English]] service, crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] to [[North America]]
51: *[[Alvise Cadamosto]] (1432-1488), [[Portuguese]] explorer of [[Ven... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
8: * [[1612]] - [[Moscow]] China Town taken by [[Russia]]n troops under...
14: ...arty|Republican]] [[James G. Blaine]] in a very close contest to win the first of his two non-consecut...
22: * [[1924]] - [[Nellie Tayloe Ross]] of [[Wyoming]] elected as the first woman gove...
23: ...28]] - [[Arnold Rothstein]], [[New York City]]'s most notorious gambler, is shot dead over a [[poker]]...
24: ...esident [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|Franklin D. Roosevelt]] orders the [[United States Customs Service... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
17: ...es Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
55: ...ge Adams|Adams, John Coolidge]], (born 1947), composer
57: ...ther Adams|Adams, John Luther]], (born 1953), composer
63: *[[Richard Adams (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
1: ...nie Besant''' activist, socialist and latterly theosophist]]
2: ...er 20]], [[1933]]) was a prominent [[Theosophy|Theosophist]], [[women's rights]] [[activist]], [[write...
5: Her conversion to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'...
7: ...she devoted much of her energy not only to the Theosophical Society, but also to India's freedom and p...
9: ... Besant, who had been elected president of the Theosophical Society in [[1907]] upon the death of the ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...trol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the pub...
5: ...ried William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she gave birth to a son the following year, fo...
9: ...on by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned...
21: ...anger's books include ''Woman and the New Race'' (1920), ''Happiness in Marriage'' (1926), and an autobi...
23: ==Philosophy== - Clarice Lispector (1743 bytes)
1: '''Clarice Lispector''' ([[December 10]] [[1920]] - [[December 9]] [[1977]]) was a [[Brazil|Brazi...
3: ... her first novel ''Perto do Cora磯 Selvagem'' (Close to the Wild Heart). When the novel was published...
7: Her most famous novel is ''A Hora da Estrela'', or ''The ...
14: *Alguns Contos (1952)
20: *A mulher que matou os peixes (1968) - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and married Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same ...
18: ...vered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $...
29: ... alternatives, they settle on ''[[Rosita (movie)|Rosita]]'', in a performance that was praised by crit...
30: ...theatres this year, in Chicago and Detroit. The Los Angeles theatre is now known as the [[University ...
31: ...ning $1.4 million. Her performance earned her an Oscar. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
8: ..., where she was employed as a social worker in [[Boston, Massachusetts]]. During this time, she was ab...
10: ... friendship during preparation for the Atlantic crossing. They were married on [[February 7]], [[1931]...
14: ...Distinguished Flying Cross]] from Congress, the Cross of Knight of the [[L駩on d'honneur|Legion of Ho...
16: ... California]]. Later that year she soloed from [[Los Angeles]] to [[Mexico City]] and back to [[Newark...
18: ...helped establish the company's seaplane routes across the Pacific. He hoped the resulting publicity wo... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
5: ...y really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ...
8: ...fessor of [[art history]] at the [[University of Moscow]], who was later to found the Alexander III Mu...
10: ...a's children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured An...
12: ... [[1902]] Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in cli...
14: ...s death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her frie... - Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
3: ...Kathleen then moved to [[Camden, Maine]]. Millay rose to fame with her poem "[http://www.bartleby.com/...
13: Her best known poem might be "First Fig" (1920): - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
10: ... to [[Paris, France|Paris]] on [[November 20]], [[1920]]. She could not gain admission to American flig...
14: ...able to attend, as American flight schools were closed to them.
16: ...anted to examine the terrain. The plane crashed, possibly because of a wrench that got stuck in the c...
18: ...ed States|postage stamp]] by the [[United States Postal Service]]. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physi...
5: Rosalind Franklin was born in [[London]] in the [[Uni...
8: ...ructure of coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her wo...
9: ...s. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but before leaving Paris, she con... - 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: ...ts included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson...
11: ...Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popular recordings.
13: ...an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she never reg... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthumous reception history is a lengthy one: she wa...
7: ...rt of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in loyalty. Franc...
14: ...With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of the troops. The small force she...
18: ...sh army was cut to pieces near [[Patay]], with a loss of 2,200 English soldiers versus only a little o...
24: ...[Paris]], the Royal Court was mesmerized by the prospect of a negotiated peace offered by the Duke of ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]...
4: ...842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
8: ...n for her wit, although as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was...
22: ... occasional film, as a highly-popular radio show host, and in the new medium of television. Her appear...
71: *1919 [[Footloose]] - 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]]).
17: ...so had an on-and-off affair with the primarily homosexual British photographer [[Cecil Beaton]], to wh...
21: ...fortunately, her one-time fianc鬠John Gilbert, whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well afte... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: [[Image:SuzanneLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labell...
10: ...f [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tennis competitions, ...
14: ...|Dorothea Douglass Chambers]] in the final. The close match, later noted to be one of the hallmarks in...
18: At the [[1920 Summer Olympics]] in [[Antwerp]] ([[Belgium]]), L...
20: ...rced her to withdraw after the fourth round. From 1920 to 1926 she won the French Championships ([[Frenc... - Painting (4567 bytes)
2: ...c painting is considered by many to be among the most important of the [[art]] forms.
8: ...chre]] and black pigment and show horses, rhinoceros, lions, buffalo, and mammoth. There are examples ...
34: ...rking characteristics of the paint, such as [[viscosity]], [[miscibility]], [[solubility]], drying tim...
72: *[[Postmodern art|Postmodernism]]
88: A proposed and yet-unrealised development in painting is [... - Concertina (3686 bytes)
1: ...ight|English concertina made by Wheatstone around 1920]]
10: ...nas in both English and Anglo styles and was the most prolific manufacturer of the period).
13: ...shing and pulling give the same note. A scale in most keys alternates between one side and the other. ...
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