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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: *[[Irmgard Adam-Schwaetzer|Adam-Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government ministe...
42: ...les Francis]] (1866-1954), son of above, Navy secretary
60: *[[Leonie Adams|Adams, Leonie]], (born 1899), poet
65: ...22-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...(on the occasion of her [[Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Can...
7: ...sty|Her Majesty]] '''Queen Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), st...
14: ...thumb|left|"Princess Lilibet" (here spelled "Lilybet") made the cover of ''Time'' in 1929, at age thre...
15: ...her was HRH The Duchess of York (n饠[[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George B...
17: ...ghness'']]. Her full style was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York. At the time of her birth, she was third... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...e Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...stic song to the tune of the haunting [[Marlene Dietrich]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
33: ... perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society."''
35: ...d War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and others in formulating the [[UN ...
37: ...r old friends [[Herbert Lehman]] and [[Thomas Finletter]] to form the New York Committee for Democrati...
45: ...ction| murder mysteries]] wherein she acted as a detective, helping the police solve the crime, while ... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: '''Margaret Chase Smith''' ([[December 14]], [[1897]] –...
5: ...ion, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, local jurisdictions and the military....
11: ...s rejected the effort. She was the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conf... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated to the [[United States]]...
6: ...e area, she decided to work in a factory as a corset maker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was ...
9: ...ersner remained legally married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
13: In New York City she met and lived with [[Alexander Berkman]], who was an ...
18: ...erdict off of the testimony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] gave the l... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretSanger-Underwood.LOC.jpg|thumb|Margaret Sanger.]]
2: ...merican]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won t...
7: ...hat Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger rep...
9: ...pe prosecution. However, the following year, she returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, laun...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...st significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born...
9: ...eral 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...
13: ...heremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...f was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbur...
9: ...led as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], ...
13: ...imultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative en...
15: ...ur life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ...anon and the future of women in education and society. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...
17: ...cism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe.... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
14: ...and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holid...
18: ...'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[[Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''.
20: ...ous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
14: ...d producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians...
16: ...forming regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
26: ...s youthful spirit is replaced by overtones of regret, but her impact on other artists was undeniable. ... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...irst marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]]...
9: ...ions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was ...
11: ...r cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the a...
13: ...reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the Britis... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Violetteszabo1944.gif|right]]
3: ...bruary 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ...e Bushell''' in [[Paris, France]]. She was a secret agent in [[Occupied France]], who was immortalise...
7: ...were extremely important to establish bombing targets.
9: ...ation for [[D-Day]]. However, she was eventually betrayed and arrested by the [[Gestapo]], despite put... - 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...
8: ...her social circle included the likes of [[Andre Breton]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Ana...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films. - 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...
5: ...he witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to a .22 cali...
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 filming the...
11: ...ct with Lucille as the zany housewife wanting to get in Arnaz's show. The tour was a smash and CBS put... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
6: ...agazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, ...
8: ...other minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
12: ...rally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: ...st choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]]. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appearing in thre...
7: In [[1949]] Bergman met [[Film director|director]] [[Roberto Rossellini]]...
9: ...r a second time. She would continue to alternate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]]...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
57: * [[Indiscreet]] (1958) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...vis''' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...sh; [[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[Un...
5: Davis was born in [[Lowell, Massachusetts]]. Her parents divorced when she was seven year...
7: ...she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they let her sign with [[Warner Brothers]]. Her first sta... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...[birth control]] advocate who, along with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that b...
7: ...nship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed he...
12: ...ite businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a sho...
17: ... During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltim...
19: ...e on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she was almost incompre...
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