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- Annie Besant (4275 bytes)
9: ...6]]. In [[1908]] he was taken back into the fold through the agency of Besant, who had been elected pr...
11: ...ne of its foci [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]] and the island of [[Ceylon]] where Henry Olcott did the majority...
13: ...boy was proposed as the incarnate vessel for the Christ. Jiddu Krishnamurti and his brother Nitya were...
32: * Esoteric Christianity - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...he development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. S...
18: ...[prison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployment...
55: ...do the bidding of their masters to crucify their Christs." [[Living my Life]], p. 304.</blockquote>
59: ... revolution" - widely attributed, actually a paraphrase from her autobiography ''Living My Life'' - vi... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
20: ... to [[Honolulu]], [[Hawaii]]. The flight resumed three days later, but a tire blew on takeoff and Earh...
22: ...rhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide her to the island once she arrived in the vicinity.
24: Through a series of misunderstandings or errors (the ...
28: * ''20 Hrs., 40 Min.'' was her journal of her [[1928]] flig...
34: ...owland, to [[Nikumaroro]] (then known as Gardner) Island in what is now [[Kiribati]], landed there, and ul... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: '''Jacqueline Cochran''', born '''Bessie Lee Pittman''' ([[May 11]], ...
3: [[Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
6: ...s business. Despite her lack of education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business a...
8: ...lying lessons at [[Roosevelt Airfield]] on [[Long Island]]. A natural, she was quickly flying solo and wit...
10: ...ow aviatrix [[Amelia Earhart]] to participate. Cochran would go on to win the event. With her growing ... - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
4: ...he twelfth of thirteen children. Her father was three-quarter Choctaw Indian. The family earned thei...
12: ...r first air show, in [[Long Island, New York|Long Island]].
14: ... In Los Angeles, California, she broke a leg and three ribs when her plane stalled and crashed on Febr... - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
3: ...es|American]] [[cultural anthropology|cultural anthropologist]].
7: ...uate student, but her position as a pioneering anthropologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enoug...
14: ... by young people (especially women) as they pass through adolescence as "unavoidable periods of adjust...
18: ... to know, lived with, observed, and interviewed (through an interpreter) the sixty-eight young women b...
26: ... Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth'', in which he challenged all of M... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
10: Throughout her life she appears to have turned away f...
16: ..., she prevailed on several members of the [[Rhode Island State Assembly]] to take Simmons case directly to...
18: ... from the image of her as a genteel lady walking through dirty, stinking places and courageously befri... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
3: [[Image:PICT0045.JPG|thumb|300px|Clare Island, associated with Grace O' Malley]]
6: ...ry]] [[Ireland]], when [[Henry VIII]] was on the throne of [[England]]. Under the policies of the Engl...
11: ...ce at the family castle or tower-house in [[Clare Island]]. - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
68: ... of the Southern Ocean' and 'Kuan Yin (of/on) the Island' stem from this tradition.
78: ...en Kuan Yin and the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] of [[Christianity]]. The [[Tzu-Chi]] Foundation commissio...
82: ...banned and punishable by death, some underground Christian groups venerated the Virgin Mary disguised ... - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
5: ...o [[Paris]]. She posed as a princess from [[Java (island)|Java]] and became an exotic dancer, performing "...
7: ...o blame all of the military failures of the last three years on her. She was found guilty and [[Execut... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
14: ...and Islands]] and at her winter home on [[Merritt Island, Florida]] before retiring to a farm near [[Clayt... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
7: ...ational Tennis Hall of Fame]] in [[Newport, Rhode Island]] in [[1987]]. In [[1990]], [[Life magazine]] nam... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
5: ...á''' in 1956. Her parents divorced when she was three, and in [[1962]] her mother Jana married Mirosl...
13: ...[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[French Open]] to [[Chris Evert]]. After losing to Evert in the semi-fina...
15: ...mbledon in [[1978]], where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 ...
19: ...83]] - the French Open - she captured the year's three remaining Grand Slam titles (the Australian Ope...
21: ... World No. 1 doubles player for a period of over three years in the 1980s.) - Violet (plant) (3474 bytes)
14: ''Viola nephrophylla''<br>
22: ...he family [[Violaceae]], with around 400 species throughout temperate areas of the world. Most violets...
31: ...t of U.S. state flowers|state flower]] of [[Rhode Island]], [[Illinois]], and [[New Jersey]]. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
52: ...two of which rotate, and one which is fixed. All three main parts are sealed in a housing filled with ...
58: ...ugh the blades of the fixed guide wheel and then through the blades of the turbine wheel, which causes...
70: ...through an [[Overhead lines|overhead pickup]] or through a third-rail. While the cost of electrifying ...
82: ...third-rail locomotives are operated by the [[Long Island Rail Road]] and [[Metro-North Railroad]] between ...
93: The three main categories of locomotives are often subdiv... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
60: ...ffolk County, New York|Suffolk County]] on [[Long Island]]. The contest drew considerable national attent...
62: ... Senate race. Opponents made this a focal point throughout the campaign race, and in debates. Her ca...
84: [[Image:HRCSIG.jpg|framed|right|Hillary Clinton's signature]...
91: the possible involvement of three unnamed ghostwriters[http://news.scotsman.com/t...
95: *[http://clinton.senate.gov/about_hrc.html About Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton] - Glass (26176 bytes)
30: ...ng point]] of about 2000 [[Celsius|?C]] (3632 [[Fahrenheit|?F]]), and while it can be made into glass ...
44: .... About [[1000]] CE, an important technical breakthrough was made in Northern Europe when soda glass w...
81: ...] of breakage and [[injury]], for example in [[bathroom]]s, in [[door]] panels, [[fire exit]]s and at ...
100: ...e glass is placed onto a roller table, taking it through a furnace which heats it to above its anneali...
115: ...me coated with the plastic [[cellulose nitrate]] through laboratory carelessness, and then when droppe... - Pre-historic art (9744 bytes)
17: ...n by the [[Neolithic]], the earliest being the anthropomorphic figurines, often embellished by animals...
22: ...ac, [[France]], at [[Skara Brae]] in the [[Orkney Islands]], in [[Portugal]], and in [[Wiltshire]], [[Engl...
30: The [[Iron age]] saw the development of anthropomorphic sculptures, such as the [[warrior of Hi...
32: ...ulture and much of their art was often expressed through plates, knives, [[cauldron]]s and cups. Horse...
55: ..., the most famous of which is located at [[Easter Island]]. - Marco Polo (6716 bytes)
7: ...radition that the Polo family originated from the island of [[Korcula|Korčula]] in today's [[Croatia]...
40: ...' ([[Marco Polo (Doctor Who)|Marco Polo]]) and a three-masted clipper ship built in Saint John, New Br... - Ponce De Leon (5480 bytes)
2: ...berian peninsula]]. Ponce de León accompanied [[Christopher Columbus]] on his second voyage to the [[...
4: ... [[Agueybana]], and quickly gained control of the island. As a result, Ponce de Leon was named Governor of...
7: ...elected Ponce de León to colonize and govern the island of Puerto Rico. In the meantime Diego Columbus ha...
9: ...all of which he hoped to find at Bimini and other islands. The story of Ponce de León searching for the [...
12: ...n 1513. On [[March 27]] [[1513]], he sighted an [[island]], but sailed on without landing. Later, on April...
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