Search results
|
|
No page with that title exists You can create an article with this title or put up a request for it. Please search Wikipedia before creating an article to avoid duplicating an existing one, which may have a different name or spelling.
Showing below up to 20 results starting with #1.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
No article title matches
Page text matches
- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...atazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
9: ...|Adair, John]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
10: ...Adair|Adair, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[...
9: ...[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, afte...
11: ...]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
14: ...azine-cover-p'incess-lilybet.jpg|thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover...
15: ...ark|Queen Alexandra]] and grandmother Queen Mary respectively. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: '''Nancy Witcher Astor, Viscountess Astor''' ([[May 19]], [[1879]] – [[May 2]]...
4: ...renfell]] was a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], becam...
8: ...House of Commons. She would be re-elected many times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention...
10: ... and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set." - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...he [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First-wave f...
5: ...Rights|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First L...
9: ...s hand to her husband to be. Their marriage was blessed with six childeren, of which five survived inf...
11: ...scended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
13: ...s an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...tion at her party's convention (1964 [[United States Republican Party|Republican]]).
5: ...s instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
7: ...s defeated for reelection in 1972 by [[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[William Dodd Hathaw...
9: ...ived the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[198... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...vil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarqui...
6: ...ran a small inn. In the period of [[political repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Ts...
9: ...e emigrated with her elder sister, Helene, to Rochester, NY, to live with their sister Lena. Goldman ...
13: ...ick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she fondly referred to him)...
18: ... the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s instrumental in opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believe...
7: ...ssemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...ntributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Ca...
11: ...cknowledged the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mot...
13: ...der medical supervision was legalized in many states. In 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...ry, the fate of creative women, and the difficulties of living and writing in the shadow of [[Stalinis...
5: ...Bolshoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separa...
9: ...]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
19: ...sm: Akhmatova's self-serving charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...n [[1904]], she and her sister, [[Vanessa Bell|Vanessa]], moved to a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloo...
9: ...ained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ...motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, i...
13: ...itation on the themes of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation...
15: ...do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...kerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...can American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France...
7: ...llar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding...
9: ...ul films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ...y binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and becam... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
4: ... born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She w...
6: ...to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. S...
8: ...the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...ctly [[Marilyn Monroe]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ... Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleano...
7: ... be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out of s...
9: ...t was hardly a responsible father. In the rare times Billie did see him, she would shake him down for ...
11: ==First success==
14: ...Hammond was the first). Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ev... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...success have been credited with influencing the [[espionage]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy...
7: ...atrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On ...
9: ...lympics|Olympic]] [[skier]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains...
11:
13: ...to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Violetteszabo1944.gif|right]]
7: ...rials for the Germans were extremely important to establish bombing targets.
9: ...ed by the [[Gestapo]], despite putting up fierce resistance with her [[Sten]] gun. She was interrogate... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ... she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: ...], ''[[Meshes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal Ame...
8: ...6mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...e star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ...ence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as her "king".
9: ...ff immediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and dri...
11: ...uple's [[Desilu]] production company, so the Arnazes toured the road in a [[vaudeville]] act with Luci... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: ...]], [[1968]]) was a [[United States]] [[actor|actress]], talk-show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Hun...
4: ...House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[John H. Bankhead II]] ([[1872]...
6: ...Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New Yo...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral me...
10: ...d]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...my Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
3: ...rmezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]"...
5: ...'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of A...
7: ...ini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... It is considered to be among her best performances. - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...''This article is about '''Bette Davis''' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
3: ...]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ... raised by their mother, who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne...
7: ...as the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ...heir parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, includin...
7: ...zed for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as '...
10: ...adway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...nds. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
View (previous 20) (next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).