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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...tter of Britain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually exis...
5: ...chool of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century]] to early [[6th cen...
7: ..." he led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
9: ...ay have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical career o...
11: ...Celtic deity devolved into a personage (citing sometimes a supposed change of the sea-god [[Lir]] into... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...used to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced Roths and began calling herself Ma...
7: ... [[1960]] she began a lawsuit (''[[Murray v. Curtlett]]'') against the [[Baltimore, Maryland]] School ...
11: ...] she publicly debated religious leaders on a variety of issues and also produced an [[atheism|atheist...
13: .... In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemingly all...
18: ...vict who had worked as an office manager and typesetter for American Atheist and had previous convicti... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ... picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became on...
9: ...cademy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series o...
11: ...film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving ...
13: ...rried Fairbanks on [[March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and ...
25: ...tion]]" as a part of [[Paramount Pictures]], she gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actre... - 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...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of ...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and cat...
7: ...a]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in...
13: Stein, a [[lesbian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 19...
17: ...with [[Alfred North Whitehead]] in England. They returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies ...
29: ...nd was interred there in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. When she was being wheeled into the operating... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
4: ...ield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying a...
10: In [[July]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan...
12: In [[July]] [[1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[Ca...
14: ... had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tsvetaeva.jpg|right]]
3: ...h; [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...cmeist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ... known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Meyn, was Ivan's...
10: ...aughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor. - 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. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped th...
8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
9: ...the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ... was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been t...
15: ... is reported to have commented that it was very pretty 'but how are they going to prove it'. Crick and... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Comma...
16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
18: ...[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. Her primary ac... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ...enase]]. In [[1957]], she won two major piano competitions in Geneva and Bolzano within a few weeks, a...
7: ...her early recordings (made at age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and L...
11: ...tly appear as member of the jury of important competitions.
17: ...ev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: M... - 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: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...humb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)...
5: ...nda]]'' under the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and...
7: ...reo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an increasingly unstable higher regist...
9: ...but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...ced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', at a party given in he... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ...rsion of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
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: ...raneous sources 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. ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...nson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]].
9: ...ings the title song accompanied by members of [[Fletcher Henderson]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Cho...
17: ...his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended to Bessie, wr...
19: ...what happened to Bessie Smith in 1937 in their hometown," Lomax wrote. "Wounded in a local car wreck, ...
21: ...d died en route, bleeding slowly to death on a stretcher while waiting to be admitted. As we see, that... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[author]], and [[television]] personal...
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ...an Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...ily and had lived in [[Paris]] as an artist and poet. Paul joined the [[United States Foreign Service ...
14: ...e met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French cookbook for ... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...when she was elected to the school's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-sem...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
15: ...unicated with other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She...
17: ...rought to [[Israel]] in 1950 and buried in the cemetery on [[Mount Herzl]], [[Jerusalem]].
23: ==Poetry== - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
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...
15: ...cusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed in [[Istanb... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
14: *''[[How Sweet It Is!]]'' (1968)
16: ...he Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
22: *''[[Get Shorty]]'' (1995) (Cameo)
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