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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
19: *[[Melchior Adam|Adam, Melchior]], (died 1622), German divine and biographer...
27: *[[Adamnan]], (625-704), Irish religious leader
38: *[[Ansel Adams|Adams, Ansel]], (1902-1984), photographer
46: *[[Evangeline Adams|Adams, Evangeline]], (1868-1932), astrologer
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...ada]] (on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing h...
7: ...om|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ds of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, ...
14: ...lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929,...
15: ...n Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ... [[Gibson Girl]]. One of her nieces, [[Joyce Grenfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, w...
8: ...member to actually take her seat, since the first elected female member in [[1918]], [[Constance Marki...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ...
12: It is generally believed that it was Nancy Astor who, during a [[Worl...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...te House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ... [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promoting the [[New De...
5: ...ady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...side marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ork|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Fr... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...s in Maine history. She was the first woman to be elected to both the [[United States House of Represe...
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
7: ...[[William Dodd Hathaway|Bill Hathaway]], the only election she ever lost in the state of Maine. (Hath...
11: ...cCarthy. He had successfully intervened in Senate elections defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... However, Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughou...
9: ... Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[New York City|N...
15: She also become friends with [[Hippolyte Havel]] at this time.
18: ...ment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing.
21: ...ning in confinement for several weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to conn... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]].
9: In 1914, Sanger launched ''The Woman Rebel'', a newspaper advocating birth control. She also...
11: ...]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''...
13: ...on was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference...
15: ...l News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of America. ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
9: Akhmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with sev...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
19: ... Stalinism: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...oomsbury]], forming the initial kernel for the intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. ...
9: ... Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the forem...
11: ...consciousness]], the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters, and the vari...
13: ...ser to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the A...
15: ...d: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible tim... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...e it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...batino—a Sicilian stonemason who passed himself off successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—B...
13: ... to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry ch...
15: ...6]], she starred in a failed show with the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered,...
17: ... given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatri... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...[[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[si...
6: ...h she won, adding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Web...
8: ..., the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...arilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...reatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood whi...
7: ...her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped ou...
9: ...would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughte...
20: ... that era to perform with white musicians. Nevertheless, she was still forced to use the back entrance...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
11:
13: ...icion due to Krystyna's contacts with a Polish intelligence organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." ...
15: ...]] [[consul]]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the vi... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: '''Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo''', [[George Cross|G.C.]], [[Order of the ...
5: ...al Operations Executive]] (SOE) was [[Leopold Samuel Marks|Leo Marks]], who gave her what is now thoug...
7: ...roducing war materials for the Germans were extremely important to establish bombing targets. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: ... She used this camera to make her first and most well-known [[film]], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' ...
8: ...Foundation Fellowship for "Creative Work in the Field of Motion Pictures." In 1947 she won the [[Gran...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
14: ...''-2001) during [[seance|s顮ces]] in which she spelled out ghostly messages through a [[Ouija board]]... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
4: She was born in [[Celoron, New York]] and after her father died, was ra...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...tage version). The two hit it off immediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. Howeve...
11: ...essful, and [[CBS]] asked her to develop it as a television program. She agreed, but insisted on worki... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
10: ...|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
12: ... [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Criti...
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establi...
16: ... that she was too old (at 34) for Scarlett's antebellum scenes (One also wonders if the cynical Bankhe... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ilms in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (193...
5: ...for Best Actress with her performance in ''[[The Bells of St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive...
7: ... children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
11: ...an]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and ca...
15: ...ni-series]] [[A Woman Called Golda]], about [[Israeli]] [[prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]]. - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: '''Ruth Elizabeth Davis''' ([[April 5]], [[1908]] – [[...
5: Davis was born in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. Her parents divorced when she ...
7: ...she was hired by [[Universal Studios]], but they felt she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...by Jane?]]'', in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time rival [[Joan Crawford]], ... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ..., of which she won four. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nom...
5: ...ore, and as a result the Hepburn children became well-versed in social and political issues. Once a v...
7: ...s such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ...n a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepb...
21: ...pdate of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excellent reviews. Hepburn became the talk of New York...
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