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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ... leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
4: :''Main article: [[Historical basis for King Arthur]]''
7: ...tones" he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ... historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little reason ...
15: ...[Scots]] king [[Aedan mac Gabran]], who had a son called Artuir and whose life was somewhat similar to... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...[[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]...
4: ...Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obta...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ... Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ...the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ..."the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ... melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...ther of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], w...
9: ...nt film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but ret...
11: ...-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple w... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
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]]... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...oet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of modern art and litera...
7: ...1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
9: ...eft|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
12: ...he 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 Mat... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
8: ...h|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) named Jason, can still be seen in the [[Science Museum_(London)|S...
12: ...flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain t...
20: ...pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidl... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
8: ... fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristo...
10: ...Quarrels between the children were frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension b...
12: ...Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in climate could...
14: ...g Man'. Voloshin came to see Tsvetaeva and soon became her friend and mentor. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member ...
7: ...apitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with B...
9: ...ists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...ream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and ...
13: ...central strength: Woolf is arguably the major lyrical novelist in the English language. Her novels are... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made impo...
5: ...lped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ... and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ... on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but be... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compil...
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...n the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]...
12: ...to an indefinite assignment. She was promoted to Captain in [[1973]] by Admiral [[Elmo R. Zumwalt, Jr... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ...in Geneva and Bolzano within a few weeks, and her career as a professional pianist was launched.
7: ... such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rhapsodies|Hu...
9: ...cially for her recordings of [[20th century classical music|20th century]] works by composers such as ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...nger, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]].
5: ..., [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she entered [[vaudeville]] as a tee...
7: ...th a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized th...
9: ...oman anyone ever saw." In addition to being a musical star, Baker also starred in several successful f...
11: ...test song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...le role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
3: ...ersatile singer, her repertoire ranged from classical [[opera seria]], such as [[Gaspare Spontini|Spon...
5: ...bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ...later [[stereo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable hi...
9: ...iuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...rald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ..." improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...d several hit songs with them, including "(If You Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was...
10: ...uite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...ngers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening their shows with the famous Ellington'... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...ght|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ...a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
9: ...rnity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father as ...
14: ...by [[record producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among ...
18: ...mpensated for this shortcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immedi... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: ...mith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
7: ...raveling in her own railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. ...
9: ...string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ... recordings and they are of particular interest because the accompanying band included such [[Swing Er...
13: ...long [[United States Highway 61]]. She was in a car driven by her companion (and [[Lionel Hampton]]'... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ench cuisine]] and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and te...
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ...re husband Paul Cushing Child, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to [[China]], where she rece...
10: ...] to Mr. Child, a man of sophisticated palate who came from a prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts | Bost...
14: ...s. Child work with them to make it appeal to Americans. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...as a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...mitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student org...
11: ...d the [[Haganah]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in the British army...
13: ...sed the Hungarian border in small groups. She was captured before she could begin her mission and was ...
15: Szenes communicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letter... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...pable of all SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Ope...
7: ..., and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...tually murder her at one of their [[concentration camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missi...
11: ...rthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]]...
13: ... contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been fo... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: ...ctober 15]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, producer and director.
3: She was born '''Carole Penelope Masciarelli''' in [[The Bronx]], [[N...
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
20: *''[[She's Having a Baby]]'' (1988) (Cameo)
22: *''[[Get Shorty]]'' (1995) (Cameo)
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