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- List of U.S. state capitals (5230 bytes)
35: | [[Delaware]]
36: | [[Dover, Delaware|Dover]]
47: | [[Hawaii]]
48: | [[Honolulu, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
63: | [[Iowa]] - List of explorers (24013 bytes)
17: *[[Roald Amundsen]], (1872-1928), [[Norway|Norwegian]], first at the [[South Pole]], first ...
131: ...lls]] and the [[Saint Anthony Falls]] (the only [[waterfall]] on the [[Mississippi River|Mississippi]]...
134: *[[Sir Edmund Hillary]], with [[Tenzing Norgay]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
191: *[[Tenzing Norgay]], with [[Sir Edmund Hillary]] was the first person to the summit of [[Mount Everes...
210: ...entury]] [[Portuguese]] explorer and adventurer, was among the first [[Europeans]] to reach [[Japan]]... - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
22: *[[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas|Abbas, Khwaja Ahmad]], (1914-1987), film director
65: ...ck Augustus Abel|Abel, Frederick Augustus]] (1827-1902), chemist
73: ...(1706-1781), British General in French and Indian War - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minis...
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
41: ...s Francis, Jr.]] (1835-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Rai... - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
3: ...SH|''Her Serene Highness'']]. To her family, she was known as '''''May'''''.
5: ...d the coronation of her successors. Known for the way she superbly bejeweled herself for formal events...
9: ... Austria.(Cite [[Almanach de Gotha]]). Her mother was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide ...
11: ...he Duchess of Cambridge. Despite this, the family was deep in debt and had to flee abroad to avoid the...
13: ... her aunt every week without fail. During [[World War I]], the Swiss Embassy helped pass letters from ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... works, before taking part in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representa...
6: ...rset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained ...
13: ... Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him) was jailed for fourteen years.
18: ...archist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" by the criminal c...
21: ...ourse of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and executed. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
5: ...ffluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken ...
9: ...ed States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for violating the post office's obsceni...
11: ...hat Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public n...
13: ...937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped... - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ... 12]], [[1815]] – [[October 26]], [[1902]]) was a social activist and a leading figure of the ea...
4: ...ated equal. She also proposed a resolution, that was voted upon and carried, demanding voting rights ...
6: ... six volumes by various writers in 1922. Stanton was also active internationally, and in 1888 helped ...
9: ... same cause, and manifested very much in the same way''."
12: ...eral and [[Christianity]] in particular. Stanton was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th century ... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
2: ...May 22]], [[1844]] – [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ...lieved travel was a way to learn, and before she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals o...
8: ...ted States at the outset of the [[Franco-Prussian War]], she lived with her family, but art supplies a...
14: ... friend. "It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it."
21: ... away from impressionism to a simpler, straightforward approach. By [[1886]], she no longer identified... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...[[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet...
7: ...hree. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Ra...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of arti...
13: ...nd Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael'...
17: When England declared war on Germany in [[World War I]], Stein and Toklas were visiting with [[Alfre... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...er 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... poetry|Symbolist]] movements in Russia. Her work was not looked kindly upon by [[Stalin]] and the the...
8: ... ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause he...
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...lowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...nstitute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...al breakdown]] for a year. Due to her gender, she was not allowed admission into any Russian or Polish...
7: ...races of some unknown radioactive component which was far more radioactive than uranium; thus on [[Dec...
9: ...ium]] after Marie's native country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity....
11: ...nri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ...in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of the [[American Red Cross ...
6: ...Nurses where she remained until [[1909]] when she was made Superintendent of the United States Army Nu...
8: ...entered [[World War I]]. During the course of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital rol...
10: ... the 296 nurses who lost their lives during World War I.
12: ...play of personal items including a number of her awards and medals. In [[1990]], the National Nursing ... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...out of the film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
5: ...The Blue Light]]'' she took it; her main interest was initially in fictional films.
7: ...e a film about the German [[Wehrmacht]]: the film was released in [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]''...
9: ...thetic achievements. She was the first to put railways on the stadium to shoot the stadium crowd.
13: ...later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she was fascinated by the Nazis but politically naļ¶„ an... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...nuary 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show...
4: She was the daughter of [[United States House of Represe...
8: ...oos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
10: ...with men and women. By the end of the decade, she was one of the [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -...
12: ...was unable to dominate the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lomba... - Actinium (7046 bytes)
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141: ...o Giesel]] independently discovered actinium in [[1902]]. The chemical behavior of actinium is similar t... - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</td></tr>
21: ... States|President]] of the [[United States]]. He was the second President born after the signing of t...
25: John Tyler was born the son of John Tyler (1747-1813) and Mary ...
27: ...ed [[United States Whig Party|Whig Party]], Tyler was elected [[Vice President of the United States|Vi...
29: ...ely [[Acting President]], and as the Constitution was not explicit on that aspect of succession (until... - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
22: ...rmy | Union]] [[general]] in the [[American Civil War]] and the 18th ([[1869]]–[[1877]]) [[Presi...
24: ...and is credited with winning the war. Although he was a successful general, he is considered by histor...
26: ...s agree that Grant was not personally corrupt; it was his subordinates in the executive branch who wer...
30: ...io]], where Grant spent most of his time until he was 17.
32: ...rant, and although Grant protested the change, it was difficult to resist the [[bureaucracy]]. Upon gr... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...[[Botswana]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Mozambique]] and [[Swaziland]]. [[Lesotho]] is an independent [[nation]]...
3: ...ing the general election of [[1948]]; however, it was the same party under the leadership of [[Frederi...
9: ..., [[Tsonga language|Tsonga]], [[Tswana language|Tswana]], and [[Venda language|Venda]]. In this regard...
13: ...lect]]s stretching northward into Namibia and Botswana, and elsewhere. These people, who are a physica...
24: ... around [[1050]]. The furthest south they reached was the [[Fish River]], in today's [[Eastern Cape Pr... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
6: ...he island until its independence was granted in [[1902]], though limited by the [[Platt Amendment]] (rev...
8: ...the point that by the late fifties the cuban peso was valued very close to the us dollar. Illiteracy ...
10: ...e delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was adopted in [[1976]].
12: ...the invasion. The failed attempt to liberate Cuba was an international embarrasment to the newly elect...
16: ...his oil was consumed by Cuba, while the remainder was sold on the world market. Cuba supported communi...
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