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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 - George H. W. Bush (1569 bytes)
9: | date of birth=[[12 June ]], [[1924]]
19: ...orge Herbert Walker Bush''' ( born [[12 June ]] [[1924]] ) was the 41st [[President of the United States... - November 4 (10686 bytes)
2: '''November 4''' is the 308th day of the year (309th in...
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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: Ab (7347 bytes)
60: *[[Abe Kobo]], (1924-1993), Japanese author of ''The Woman In the Dune...
68: ...ls Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...en Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
107: *[[Albert Abrams|Abrams, Albert]], (1863-1924), fraudulent doctor
109: *[[Norm Abrams|Abrams, Norm]] - Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
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7: ...nasty)|Wettin]], ''[[n饝]'' [[House of Hanover|Hanover]]) ([[24 May]] [[1819]] – [[22 January]]...
9: ...Victoria was the last monarch of the [[House of Hanover]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Wi...
12: ...rathearn, like many other sons of George III, did not marry during his youth. The eldest son, the [[Ge...
16: ...en's minority. Ignoring precedent, Parliament did not create a council to limit the powers of the Rege... - Golda Meir (10143 bytes)
20: ...Histadrut]], the General Federation of Labor. By 1924, her husband tired of the kibbutz life and they l...
30: ... by joint forces from [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Lebanon]], [[Transjordan]] and [[Iraq]]. She was issued...
44: ...ar and captured large areas of territory. She saw no need to seek compromise with the [[Palestinians]]...
53: ... can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to."—Golda Meir, [[March...
55: ...t things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."—Golda Meir, in a speech ... - Millicent Fawcett (1226 bytes)
5: ..., [[Suffolk]], and in [[1867]] she married the economist [[Henry Fawcett]], who was a Radical MP for [...
7: ... British Empire|Dame of the British Empire]] in [[1924]], and her memory is still preserved in the name ... - 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... - Georgia O'Keeffe (2572 bytes)
2: '''Georgia O'Keeffe''' ([[November 15]], [[1887]] – [[March 6]],[[1986]]...
4: O'Keeffe is chiefly known for her landscapes and paintings of desert flow...
10: ...n love, and Stieglitz and his wife divorced. In [[1924]], O'Keeffe and Stieglitz married.
20: ...omen/georgia-o-keeffe.shtml Biography at FemBio - Notable Women International] - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
4: ...e_caption=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philoso...
11: ...ational self-interest]]", and [[capitalism]]. Her novels were based upon the [[archetype]] of the Rand...
13: ... his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
14: #That no one has the right to seek values from others by p...
19: ...me from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name she liked and adopted. The... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for female pilots, and ...
8: ...After her parents divorced, she sold the plane in 1924 and moved back East, where she was employed as a ...
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... - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
1: ...]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]].
3: ...e in the fall. Among her professors were three [[Nobel prize]] winners: [[Max Born]], [[James Franck]...
5: ...ear shell structure. For this work she received a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[E...
7: She was awarded the Novel for discovering the reasons as to why if there...
9: ...many dancers by having one pair go clockwise and another pair go counterclockwise. Then add one more v... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
3: ...[1890]] – [[September 27]], [[1944]]), also known as '''"Sister Aimee"''' or simply "Sister," was...
29: ...;those who wore makeup and jewelry in the pulpit, nonexistent. McPherson's uniqueness in this respect...
31: Since Pentecostalism was not popular in the U.S. during the '20s she avoided ...
35: ...Foursquare Gospel-owned KFSG on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted ...
39: ...s Temple]]<BR><small>Angelus Temple in Echo Park. Notice the radio towers.</small></center> </div> - 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...
10: ...ajor role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling''). He als...
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... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: ...[[1912]]-[[October 12]], [[1969]]) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[figure skating|figure skater]] and act...
4: ...er Olympics]], at the age of eleven. During the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rin...
6: By the next Olympiad, she needed no such assistance. She won her first of ten consecu...
10: ...in the United States, but had triumphant shows in Norway in [[1953]] and [[1955]]. In [[1938]] she pu...
18: *''[[Se Norge]]'' ([[1929]]) (documentary) - 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...
20: ...les championship every year with the exception of 1924. Health problems due to her asthma which had alre... - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
1: ...ix.jpg|thumb|left|250px|[[Great Western Railway]] No. 6833 ''Calcot Grange'', a [[4-6-0]] [[GWR 6800 C...
3: ...ce or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
12: ... a new one. Failure of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service.
13: * ''Efficiency'' - idle trains do not waste expensive motive power resources. Separat...
14: ...omotives have become obsolete when their cars are not, or vice versa.
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