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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]] - List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
29: ...Abbot, Ezra]], (1819-1884), American biblical scholar
35: ...bbott|Abbott, Diane Julie]], (born 1953), British Labour MP
51: *[[Abd-el-latif]], (1162-1231), physician and traveller
53: *[[Paula Abdul|Abdul, Paula]], (born 1962), US musician
54: *[[Humayun Abdulali|Abdulali, Humayun]], (1914-2001), [[India]]n [[ornitholo... - List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
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 - Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
1: ...50px|HSH Princess Victoria Mary of Teck, image by Lafayette of Bond Street, London. Copyright [[V&A]] ...
3: ...s also the [[Empress of India]] and [[Queen of Ireland]]. Prior to her accession, she was also [[Princ...
9: ...her was [[Her Royal Highness]] [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge]], the third child and the younge...
11: ...elled throughout Europe, visiting their various relatives and staying in [[Florence]], [[Italy]], for ...
17: ...nce Albert Victor died of [[pneumonia]] six weeks later. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Feder...
6: ...revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To B...
13: ...ion of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she f...
18: ...rison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployme...
21: ...ral weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others with ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...ffluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken ...
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]]. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton (4406 bytes)
2: ...November 12]], [[1815]] – [[October 26]], [[1902]]) was a social activist and a leading figure of ...
4: ...n drafted a ''[[Declaration of Sentiments]]'', declaring that men and women are created equal. She al...
8: ....LOC.jpg|left|thumb|Elizabeth Cady Stanton in her later years.]]
12: ...igion]] in general and [[Christianity]] in particular. Stanton was also an outspoken supporter of the...
14: ...on died in [[1902]] and was interred in the [[Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx]], [[New York]]. - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
6: ...[[Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts]] in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] (1861-1865). Tired of patr...
12: ...bright and that her portraits too accurate to be flattering to the subject.
14: ...r rebellion against the Salon. "I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I ...
21: ...depict a mother and child portrayed in intimate relationship and domestic settings.
25: ... advisor to several major art collectors and stipulated that they eventually donate their purchases to... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
11: In 1902 she moved to [[France]] during the height of arti...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ... - 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. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...rly field of [[radiology]] and a two-time [[Nobel laureate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie ...
5: ...marked by the death of her sister and, four years later, her mother. She was notable for her diligent ...
7: ...ed from it. By [[1898]] they deduced a logical explanation: that the pitchblende contained traces of s...
9: ...alts (refining radium chloride on [[April 20]], [[1902]]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The fi...
13: ...ie intentionally did not [[patent]] the radium isolation process, instead leaving it open so the scien... - Jane Delano (3466 bytes)
1: ... [[April 15]], [[1919]] in [[Savenay]], [[Loire-Atlantique]], [[France]], was a nurse and founder of t...
3: <table align=left><tr><td>[[Image:JaneADelano.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...ntendent of Nurses at University Hospital in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]].
6: ... the secretary for the enrollment of nurses. In [[1902]] she returned to Bellevue Hospital in New York C...
8: ...ourse of the War, more than 20,000 of her nurses played vital roles with the United States military. - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
2: ...film industry after [[World War II|the war]], she later became a [[photographer]].
7: ...It is not documented that she would ever have a relationship with Hitler.
13: ...e Nazis, the court called her a "sympathizer". In later interviews, Riefenstahl maintained that she wa...
15: ...ce. Her biopic and imdb list _no_ films after Tiefland-->As a result she became a [[photographer]]. Sh...
17: Later she became interested in the [[Nuba]] tribe in... - 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: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[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. - Actinium (7046 bytes)
9: | rowspan="3" valign="center" | [[Lanthanum|La]]<br>'''Ac'''<br> <br /> <br />&n...
60: | [[Molar volume]]
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141: ...f actinium is similar to that of the rare earth [[lanthanum]].
161: ...dic.lanl.gov/elements/89.html Los Alamos National Laboratory - Actinium] - John Tyler (18019 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Greenway, Virginia]]</td...
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Richmond, Virginia]]</td...
13: ...tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Ladies]]:'''</td><td>[[Letitia Christian Tyler]] (1s...
14: [[Priscilla Cooper Tyler]] (daughter-in-law)<br>
16: <tr><td>'''Occupation:'''</td><td>[[lawyer]]</td></tr> - Ulysses S. Grant (23281 bytes)
10: <tr><td>'''Place of Birth:'''</td><td>[[Point Pleasant, Ohio]]</...
12: <tr><td>'''Place of Death:'''</td><td>[[Wilton, New York|Mount M...
13: ...tr><td>'''[[First Lady of the United States|First Lady]]:'''</td><td>[[Julia Grant]]</td></tr>
24: ...ca's worst presidents, who led an administration plagued by severe [[scandal]] and [[corruption]].
30: ...a]]. In the fall of [[1823]] they moved to the village of [[Georgetown, Ohio|Georgetown]] in [[Brown C... - South Africa (40100 bytes)
1: ...tswana]], [[Zimbabwe]], [[Mozambique]] and [[Swaziland]]. [[Lesotho]] is an independent [[nation]], en...
3: ...ntle it in [[1990]] after a long struggle by the black majority, as well as many white, coloured and I...
5: ...in Africa. The [[economy of South Africa]] is the largest and most well-developed of the entire [[Afri...
8: ==Languages==
9: ...Venda]]. In this regard it is [[List of national languages of India|second only to India]] in number.... - Cuba (25106 bytes)
2: ... west [[Mexico]], to the southwest the [[Cayman Islands]] and [[Jamaica]], and to the southeast [[Hait...
6: ...was granted in [[1902]], though limited by the [[Platt Amendment]] (revoked in [[1934]]), after which ...
8: ...lliteracy ran about 12%, one of the lowest in the latin american countries.
10: ...le were expanded to cover all Cubans.After some delay, a [[Constitution]] of Soviet inspiration was ad...
12: ...ban patriots, and U.S. Special Forces landing at Playa Giron (Bay of Pigs)on April 17,1961 where they ...
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