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- Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: '''Maria Callas''' ([[December 2]], [[1923]] –[[September 16]], [[1977]]) was a [[Greece|Gree...
5: ...ian debut at the [[Verona Arena]] in ''[[La Gioconda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Togeth...
7: ...ra Garnier|Paris]], the [[Metropolitan Opera]], [[Dallas Opera]], [[Royal Opera House]], [[Mexico]]'s ...
15: ...t Callas' wishes in founding the Maria Callas Foundation, which provides international scholarships fo... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: '''Bessie Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, T...
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stok...
7: ... became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompaniments included some of th...
9: ...sie, however, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued tou...
13: ...and summoned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
7: ...nal illness. (The age difference had caused a scandal in their small town, prompting the couple to elo...
13: ...ust 19, 1910. Aimee recovered and gave birth to a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, afte...
19: ...13, she embarked upon a preaching career in [[Canada]] and the U.S. By June 1915 she had left home an...
23: ...she had started her own newspaper, named ''The Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the articles...
27: ...area of Los Angeles, and it was completed in June 1923. Named [[Angelus Temple]], it had a seating capa... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...emocrat from Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[...
10: In 1923, she made her debut on the [[London]] stage, wher...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice amo...
24: ...-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And behavior that was e...
61: *[[A Royal Scandal]] (1945) - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
1: ...humb|275px|'''Sarah Bernhardt''' (portrait by [[Nadar]])]]
2: ...([[October 22]], [[1844]] – [[March 26]], [[1923]]) was a [[France|French]] stage actress.
4: ...esan]] - at the time, the two were considered scandalous to a roughly equal degree. She was sponsored...
8: ...self, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of books an...
10: ...]], but the marriage, which legally endured until Damala's death in 1889 at age 34, was quickly collap... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United ...
5: ...ed by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s ...
7: ...''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such was the o... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
3: ...ne Rachel Flore Lenglen''' ([[24 May]] [[1899]] – [[4 July]], [[1938]]) was a [[France|French]] ...
8: ...hief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ... fought three-set match: 5–7, 6–4, 6–3. That same year she won the International Cla...
14: ...h points and winning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory.
18: ... with [[Elisabeth d'Ayen]]), and won the bronze medal after their opponents withdrew. - Apple (20408 bytes)
6: ..._classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
56: *'[[Haralson (apple)]]': [[Minnesota]] (1923)
58: *'[[Idared]]': [[Idaho]] (1942)
63: *'[[McIntosh]]': [[Canada]] (1811)
91: ...rf]] rootstocks are generally more susceptible to damage from wind and cold. Full dwarf trees are ofte... - Engraving (3556 bytes)
22: * A. M. Hind (1923, repr. 1963). ''History of Engraving and Etching.... - Ptolemy I of Egypt (7434 bytes)
7: ...nominal kings [[Philip III of Macedon|Philip Arrhidaeus]] and the young [[Alexander IV of Macedon|Alex...
9: ...gonus]], master of Asia in [[315 BC|315]], showed dangerous ambitions, Ptolemy joined the coalition ag...
13: ...general and Antigonus entered [[Syria]] in force—he evacuated it. In [[311 BC|311]], a peace was...
19: ...shed by its straightforward honesty and sobriety—except where his own actions were concerned, wh...
22: ...I of E. R Bevan's ''House of Ptolemy'', 1923) - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, mostly by Americans.
7: ...nt]], the head of government in a [[republic]]. Today the office is widely emulated all over the world...
14: ...r Granholm]], born in [[British Columbia]], [[Canada]]. Occasionally, constitutional amendments are pr...
21: ...ce]], any federal judge can administer the oath — and even judges of [[federal district court]]s...
23: On Inauguration Day, following the oath of office, the President cus... - Thomas R. Marshall (6779 bytes)
2: ...homas Riley Marshall''' ([[March 14]], [[1854]] – [[June 1]], [[1925]]) was an [[United States|A...
7: ...he nomination as a compromise [[dark horse]] candidate. During his term he saw a child labor law and ...
15: ...be re-elected since [[James Monroe|Monroe]] and [[Daniel D Tompkins|Tompkins]] in the 1820s.
19: ...lson to ascertain his condition until their final day in office.
23: ...s his ''Recollections'', a memoir. In [[1922]]-[[1923|23]] he served as chair of the [[Federal Coal Com... - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
34: ... and British claims; claimed [[1943]] as [[AntᲴida Argentina]], one of the four departments of [[Tie...
36: ...h Claims; claimed [[1940]], as [[comuna de AntᲴida]], one of the two municipalities of [[AntᲴica C...
38: *[[New Zealand]]: 150?W to 160?E; claimed [[1923]] as [[Ross Dependency]], as a territory of New Z...
46: ...?W; overlapped Norwegian claim; claimed [[1939]]–[[1945]] as [[New Schwabenland]]
47: *[[South Africa]]: claimed [[1963]]–[[1994]] - Turkey (41694 bytes)
5: ([[Turkish language|Turkish]]: Yurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh) |
16: sovereignty_type = [[National_Day|National Day]] |
18: ...= <br>[[April 23]], [[1920]] <br>[[October 29]] [[1923]] |
52: ...blic]], whose political system was established in 1923. This system has been interrupted by several coup...
58: ... rich history of people and the land laid the foundations of the current republic. Even though officia... - Israel (51605 bytes)
1: ...orders the states of [[Lebanon]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], and [[Egypt]] (listed clockwise from north to...
6: ...5;سرائيل<br>("Dawlat Israil") |
38: established_dates = From the League of Nations mandate administered by the [[United Kingdom]]<br>[[May...
60: ...Emperor [[Hadrian]] renamed ''Provincia [[Judea|Judaea]]'' to ''Provincia [[Syria Palaestina]]'', a Gr...
62: ...he [[Mishnah]] and [[Jerusalem Talmud]], two of Judaism's most important religious texts, were compose... - Zambia (24496 bytes)
35: established_events = - Date |
36: established_dates = [[October 24]], [[1964]] |
49: ...uries]]. They came primarily from the Luba and Lunda tribes of southern [[Democratic Republic of Congo...
51: ...y Western explorers, missionaries, and traders. [[David Livingstone]], in [[1855]], was the first Euro...
53: ...s annexed formally and granted self-government in 1923, and the administration of Northern Rhodesia was ... - Spain (36498 bytes)
39: established_dates = [[1492]] |
58: ...-Celtic people in Iberia surviving to the present day as a separate [[ethnic group]]. The most importa...
62: ...olony was [[Carthago Nova]] (Latin name of modern day [[Cartagena, Spain|Cartagena]]).
77: By [[1512]], most of the kingdoms of present-day Spain were politically unified, although not as ...
85: ... the French Bourbons (see [[House of Bourbon]]) — that a centralized Spanish state was establish... - Flag of Arkansas (1800 bytes)
5: ...pted by the legislature on February 26, 1913. In 1923, the legislature added a fourth star, respresenti... - Flag of Vermont (515 bytes)
3: ...The [[flag]] was adopted in its current form in [[1923]].
7: ... Proposal] - suggested new state flag by Jonathan David Makepeace - Flag of Washington (532 bytes)
3: ... an image of [[George Washington]]) on a field of dark green. It is the only U.S. state [[flag]] with ...
5: The design was adopted in [[1923]], prior to which [[Washington]] had no official ...
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