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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
9: ...little reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
15: ...ed the later legends, like the [[Scots]] king [[Aedan mac Gabran]], who had a son called Artuir and wh...
19: ... [[Taliesin]] are possibly from a similarly early date: ''The Chair of the Sovereign'', which refers t...
23: ...]] by [[Caradoc of Llancarfan]], Arthur killed Gildas' brother Hueil, a pirate on the [[Isle of Man]]....
27: ...ls the demands of Olwen's [[giant]] father [[Ysbaddaden]], which includes his hunt for the great [[boa... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: '''Madalyn Murray O<nowiki>'</nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]...
4: ...heless divorced Roths and began calling herself Madalyn Murray. In [[1949]] she obtained a Law degree ...
7: ...[[Life magazine|''Life'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: Following the Supreme Court decision Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide m...
11: ...[[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]]. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: '''Mary Pickford''' ([[April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion pict...
5: ...odramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ...was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the st...
15: ...p in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funer...
18: ... and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $5 a day - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
54: ...means value, in the sense of overall lightness or darkness of a painting, Stein using a high proportio...
58: ...ere gay there, they were regularly gay there everyday," of which he contends that the, "effect would b...
60: ...te in long hand, typically about half an hour per day. Alice B. Toklas would collect the pages, type t...
61: Today, most manuscripts are kept in the [[Beinecke Lib...
63: ...ul of mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
8: ...t year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,00...
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]].
10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
9: ...one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[Jame...
11: ...chievements and creativity are influential even today.
13: ...e Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions re...
15: On March 28, [[1941]], Woolf filled her pockets with stones, and drow... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: ...]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended her FLOW-MATIC lang...
14: ...n over in the 1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...oodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, and on efforts that c...
25: ...sociation of Information Technology Professionals|Data Processing Management Association]]. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ...[1955]], and Argerich studied with [[Friedrich Gulda]] in [[Switzerland]]. She later studied with [[Ar...
7: ...Her technique is considered amongst the most formidable of her time, inviting comparison with [[Vladim... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...sephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The ...
5: .... Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], [[Missouri]], the daughter of Eddie Carson and Carrie McDonald, she en...
7: ...tarred at the [[Folies Bergè²¥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a star, she perfor...
17: ...ces helped to integrate shows in [[Las Vegas, Nevada|Las Vegas]]. Nevertheless, her career was on a do...
29: ... stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.” —Josephine Baker - 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... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was ...
47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</smal...
3: ...]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest...
7: ...r [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they s...
9: ... to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Arou... - 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 ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: '''Julia Child''' ([[August 15]], [[1912]] – [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWill...
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
28: ...]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], continuing with a cooking show despit...
30: ...and Food]] in California with vintner [[Robert Mondavi]] and others to "advance the understanding, app...
36: ...igned by her husband with high counters to accommodate her height and which served as the set for thre... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
17: ... guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [...
68: :''In the dare game I stood on a number,''
71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?) - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...'s oldest noble families, and Stefania Goldfeder, daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Kr...
11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
13: ...an Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Sev...
15: ...ngary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|Fren...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
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