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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...le "King." Early texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Wels...
5: ...[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre ...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and ...
9: ...s there seems to be little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...ossibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]]. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...ollege of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954]] she gave birth to another son (Jon Ga...
7: In [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against...
9: ...]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Ga...
11: ...her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church ...
13: ...ress she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all except those whom ... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...a's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Holly...
5: .... She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...so in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage na...
9: ...he sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films f...
11: ...on-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ... [[1900]] in [[Ivanovo]], [[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawye...
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]],... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
12: ... she lived in [[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: .... She owned early works of [[Pablo Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri M...
21: Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's 'wife' in that Stein ra...
23: ... of speech she was Victorian, socially was more liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled...
26: ...ecution probably because of their friendship to [[Bernard Faÿ]], a gay collaborator with the Vich... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
8: ...th]] (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|Science Mus...
20: ...pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidl...
27: .../humber/famous_folk/amyjohnson/biog1.shtml BBC Humber site for Johnson centenary] - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
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8: ...ts roots in the depths of her displaced and disturbed childhood. Her father was Ivan Vladimirovich Tsv...
10: ...'s poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor...
12: ...luence on the impressionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...ficant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...ulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloom...
9: She began writing professionally in [[1905]], initially ...
13: ...centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief p...
15: ...d can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest pos... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to Norman Bentwich who was Attorney General in the Palestine. ...
8: ...he University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], she wo...
9: ...on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had...
12: ...he returned to find that his research project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good s...
15: ...tually left King's in March 1953 to move to [[Birkbeck]]. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...] Rear Admiral '''Grace Murray Hopper''' ([[December 9]], [[1906]] - [[January 1]], [[1992]]) was an ...
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert...
9: ...RAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language that was close to English r...
16: ...pecial Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntari... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ... [[Switzerland]]. She later studied with [[Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli]] and [[Stefan Askenase]]. In...
7: ...main yardsticks for these works. Although she has been criticised over her often exaggerated dynamics ...
9: ...no concerto|concertos]] and, in particular, [[chamber music]], and accompanying instrumentalists in [[...
11: ...annual festival, and does frequently appear as member of the jury of important competitions. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
7: ... to [[France]], where she starred at the [[Folies Bergè²¥]], setting the standard for her future acts....
9: ...ensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several ...
11: ...eatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptor...
17: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...rld War II]] period. She combined an impeccable [[bel canto]] technique with great dramatic gifts, mak...
5: ...any bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ... By the mid 1950s, strain on her voice started to become apparent; by [[1958]] it reached a point wher...
9: From October [[1971]] to March [[1972]], Callas gave a series...
11: ...y given in her honor by [[Elsa Maxwell]]. In November 1959, she left Meneghini for Onassis. According ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
10: ...ng (genre)|swing]] singer, she also encompassed [[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova...
12: ...with [[Nelson Riddle]]'s [[orchestra]]), [[Irving Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny...
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings ...
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled....
22: ...leg]]s in [[1993]], and in [[1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ped out of school at an early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. T...
14: ... Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your ...
16: ...azz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52...
20: ...from the audience before appearing on stage. Once before an audience, she was transformed into Lady Da...
24: ...m historians and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ... Smith''' ([[April 15]], [[1894]] – [[September 26]] [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[...
5: ...bably helped her develop a stage presence. Smith began developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[A...
7: ...(traveling in her own railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day...
9: ... film, she sings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...ned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
10: ...ashington, D.C., where she was married on [[September 1]], [[1946]] to Mr. Child, a man of sophisticat...
14: ... [[Simone Beck]] who, with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French cookbook for Ameri...
16: In 1951, they began teaching cooking to American women in the Chil...
20: ...ticles and a regular column for ''[[The Boston Globe]]'' newspaper. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ... was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...tism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organ...
11: ...943 she enlisted in the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the Br...
13: ...n small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy M...
17: ...he kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [[Israel]] ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...rol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married ...
9: When [[Germany]] invaded Poland in [[September]] [[1939]], ushering in [[World War II]], the co...
11: ...t did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's ...
13: ...engineer-inventor [[Stefan Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom ... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: '''Penny Marshall''' ([[October 15]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]]...
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
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