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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
40: ...07-1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, US congressman, ambassador
59: *[[John Quincy Adams|Adams, John Quincy]], (1767-1848), sixth President of the United Sta...
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
64: ... nations have developed economically and in literacy, Queen Elizabeth has witnessed over the past 50 y...
112: ...at the time as a disagreement with Thatcher's policy of opposing sanctions.
145: ...rs, whichever number is higher. Applying this policy retroactively to monarchs since the Act of Union ...
181: ...deo of Elizabeth's coronation] from [[Encarta]] encyclopedia. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], ...
3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:NancyAstor.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...onologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tast...
8: ...UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor then became the [[Conservative Party (UK)|C...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
9: ...d with six childeren, of which five survived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual ...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
25: ...ed about the mounting threats to peace and democracy during [[World War II]], established [[Freedom Ho...
33: ...ry, Val-Kil afforded Eleanor with a level of privacy that she had wanted for many years. Here she ent... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ...ntatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, [[Clyde Smith... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
20: ==Conspiracy to assassinate the President==
21: ...[[September 10]], [[1901]], on charges of conspiracy to assassinate [[William McKinley|President McKin...
32: ...t seeing the [[political repression]], [[bureaucracy]] and [[forced labour]] in Russia led Goldman to ...
38: ...urruti is Dead, Yet Living]]'', which echoes [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]]'s [[Adonais (poem)|Adonais]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
24: ...iticized the censorship of her reproductive literacy message by the civil and religious authorities, j...
45: :A stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of...
51: ==Legacy==
54: ...n, and as matters of law, medicine and public policy second.{{fn|1}} - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...s work ranges from short lyric poems through poem cycles, such as her masterpiece on the Stalinist ter...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) toward...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment b...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]] - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
18: ...le timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy.
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
32: Holiday's bouncy, girlish voice had changed considerably, becoming... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
1: [[image:Lucyheadshot.jpg|thumb|right|210px|Lucille Ball (1911~...
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
11: ...ith Arnaz. This show eventually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
16: ...lett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" ...
20: ..., [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Constance Porter in [[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboa... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
40: ...or autographs, feeling it an invasion of her privacy. On the set she was saddled with the label "diff...
44: ...ecially for her. She played spoiled socialite Tracy Lord to rave reviews. On the advice of millionai...
46: ===Hepburn and Spencer Tracy===
47: ...y.jpg|frame|left|Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy]]
48: ...n made her first appearance opposite [[Spencer Tracy]] in ''[[Woman of the Year]]''. Behind the scene...
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