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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
5: ...ate !! Capital !! Year of current [[capitol]] construction
57: ...[[1876]] (design), [[1884]] — [[1887]] (construction)
124: | [[Trenton, New Jersey|Trenton]]
157: | [[1898]] — [[1902]]/[[1903]]
215: * http://www.cupola.com/html/bldgstru/statecap/cap01.htm - Christopher Columbus (44177 bytes)
1: ...ugal]] among others. He was an [[explorer]] and [[trade]]r who crossed the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and reac...
3: ...ry [[myth]] created by [[Washington Irving]]. Contrary to this belief, most people at that time accep...
5: ...f peoples throughout time; see '''[[Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact]]''', one of the most consiste...
7: ...]), as well as the coasts of [[Central America|Central]] and [[South America]]. He never reached the p...
11: Columbus remains a controversial figure. Some – including many [[Nat... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
7: ...ntwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
8: ...der command of [[Dmitri Mikhailovich Pozharski|Dmitry Pozharsky]]
12: ...bard a [[United States|Union]] supply base and destroy millions of dollars in material.
16: ...ound|tube]] railway opens between [[King William Street]] and [[Stockwell tube station|Stockwell]].
18: * [[1918]] - [[World War I]]: [[Austria-Hungary]] surrenders to [[Italy]]. - List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
8: *[[Alvar Aalto|Aalto, Alvar]], (1898-1976), Finnish architect
14: ...aronson|Aaronson, Marc]], (1950-1987), American astronomer - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
46: ...ngeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
56: ...n Couch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
58: *[[John Adams (Pitcairn)|Adams, John]], Patriarch Of Pitcairn
65: ...el Adams|Adams, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: ...1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert]] comic strip - List of people by name: Ai (1915 bytes)
9: *[[ɴienne Aignan|Aignan, ɴienne]], (1773-1824), translator, political writer, librettist, playwright...
16: *[[Troy Aikman|Aikman, Troy]], (born 1966), [[American football]] star
22: ...|Airo, Aksel]], (1898-1985), Finnish general and strategist
24: ...eorge Biddell Airy|Airy, George]], (1801-1892), astronomer - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
3: ...lign=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ... Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], bec...
8: ... re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman me...
10: ...and her husband had protested to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime M...
12: ...tic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The ... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
2: ...#1512;''') (b. '''Golda Mabovitz'''; [[May 3]], [[1898]] – [[December 8]], [[1978]]) was a founder...
20: ...r duties there included picking almonds, planting trees, caring for chickens, and running the kitchen....
22: ...her. Her husband died in [[1951]], Golda was away traveling at the time.
30: ... forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued Israel's...
42: ... governing coalition, and serious questions over strategic misjudgments and general lack of leadership... - Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
4: ...edom of thought]], [[women's rights]], [[birth control]], [[Fabian socialism]] and [[workers' rights]]...
5: ...to Theosophy came after reading ''[[The Secret Doctrine]]'' by [[H.P. Blavatsky]] in [[1889]] and writ...
9: ...sturbate]]. At the time such advice was highly controversial. He had to leave the Theosophical Society...
11: ...r activities on "The Aryavarta", as she called central [[India]]. Besant actively courted Hindu opini...
15: ...sant's spirit, as it went against her ideals. She tried to accommodate Krishnamurti's views into her l... - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
6: ... fifth child of the [[Jew]]ish wood trader/timber trader Eliasz Luxemburg III and his wife Line (maide...
8: ...rties, and started off by organising a [[general strike]]. As a result, four of its leaders were put t...
14: ...stria]], and [[Russia]]. She maintained that the struggle should be against [[capitalism]] itself, and...
19: In [[1898]], Luxemburg obtained [[Germany|German]] [[citize...
21: ...ection. Luxemburg wanted to organise a [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and pre... - Emmeline Pankhurst (1950 bytes)
3: ...ore than any other, which is associated with the struggle for votes for women in the period immediatel...
5: ...ylvia]], both of whom would make a substantial contribution to the campaign in different ways.
7: ...experience force-feeding after going on [[hunger strike]]. Her approach to the campaign did not endea... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes...
25: ...gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actress who was the producer of her own films. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
5: ...ister, she moved to [[Paris]] and studied [[chemistry]] and [[physics]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she...
7: ...gical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of some unknown radioactive component which w...
9: ... they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its int...
11: ... in Physics]], [[1903]]: "in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joi...
13: ...ion of her services to the advancement of [[chemistry]] by the discovery of the elements radium and po... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
6: ...s her senior. Young Clara was home-educated and extremely bright. It is said that her older brothers a...
14: ... job as a clerk in the [[United States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D....
17: :"''As a patriot he bade me serve my country with all I had, even with my life if need be; as...
21: ...Finally, in July 1862, she obtained permission to travel behind the lines, eventually reaching some of...
23: ...he Union army, and while engaged in this work she traced the fate of 30,000 men. As the War ended, she... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
3: ...lign=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...he demonstrated her superior executive and administrative skills and developed innovative nursing proc...
6: ... Nurse Corps. During this time, her invaluable contributions to her profession resulted in her being n...
8: ...ster relief and over 8,000 registered nurses were trained and ready for duty by the time the United St... - Cairo (12536 bytes)
2: ... 31.21667). [http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html]
4: ...is typically called simply by the name of the country, ''Mişr'' (Arabic, مصر) p...
6: ...attempts to invade Cairo or defeated elsewhere by troops sent from Cairo. ([[Mongols]], Crusaders & Ot...
11: ...y of Cairo, Egypt, seen as a large bright area centre left of the image, Credit-ESA 2004.]]
25: ... Cairo has the largest concentration of medi涡l structures in the world.]] - John Adams (18716 bytes)
10: | place of birth=[[Braintree]], [[Massachusetts]]
22: ...Old Style]], [[Julian Calendar]]), 1735 in [[Braintree, Massachusetts]]. His father, a farmer, also na...
24: ...length, his recollections of this scene; it is instructive to compare the two accounts.
31: ... to the Stamp Act was a part of the never-ending struggle between individualism and corporate authorit...
33: ...our colonists during the [[Boston Massacre]]. The trial resulted in an [[acquittal]] of the officer wh... - Grover Cleveland (20963 bytes)
1: ...border="0" align="right" style="margin-left:1em"><tr><td>
4: ...age:Grover Cleveland.jpg|Grover Cleveland]]</td></tr>
5: <tr><td>'''Order:'''</td><td>
7: 24th President</td></tr>
8: <tr><td>'''Term of Office:'''</td><td> - Alexandria (28378 bytes)
1: ...ic mouth of the [[Nile]] (now dry) was 19 [[kilometre|km]] (12 [[mile]]s) east, near the ancient city ...
3: ...diæval Islamic rulers its status as the country's capital was ended, and it fell into a long dec...
19: ...[[Deinocrates of Rhodes]]. Ancient accounts are extremely numerous and varied, and much influenced by ...
23: ...nd the sea, according to a history of Alexander attributed to the author known as [[Alexander Romance|...
25: ...t became a famous tourist destination for ancient travellers. - Age of the Earth (20052 bytes)
1: ...ck Hills]] of [[Western Australia]] – and astronomers' and planetologists' estimates of the age ...
4: ... calculated from the Bible (augmented by some [[astronomy]] and [[numerology]]) that creation began on...
6: Few people had conceived the idea of a time that stretched far into the past before the arrival of hum...
9: ...ury]], a few [[natural history|naturalists]] were trying to place the age of the Earth on a more scien...
11: ...-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon|Comte du Buffon]] tried to obtain a value for the age of the Earth usi...
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