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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: '''King Arthur''' is an important figure in the [[mythology]] of [[Great Britain]], wh...
7: ...nthemius]]. Unfortunately, Riothamus is a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not ...
9: ...e reason for him to have become a major legendary figure.
11: ...to [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Beowulf]].
19: Arthur first appears in [[Welsh literature]]. In a survivin... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
9: ...d as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...h she criticized [[religion]] and [[theism]]. She filed lawsuits on many issues over which she felt th...
16: ...rom any of the O'Hairs and in 1996 William Murray filed a [[missing persons]] report.
18: ...s buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known as "Amer...
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: She finally divorced Moore in [[March]] [[1920]] and mar...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - 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: ...[[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouv... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
15: She and her brother compiled one of the first collections of Cubist art. She owned early wor...
21: ...as four foot eleven inches tall, and Gertrude was five foot one inch (Grahn 1989).
23: ...ent, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it brought to the peasants." ...
50: ... in her work with words used the entire text as a field in which every element mattered as much as any...
52: ...Using the idea of everything belonging to a whole field and mattering equally, as well as each being h... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
4: ... with a BA Economics from the [[University of Sheffield]], Johnson went to work in [[London]] as secre...
6: From this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...he became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia. She le...
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]].
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...portant contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]]...
5: ...], as [[Home Secretary]] in 1916. He was also the first High Commissioner (effectively governor) for t...
8: ...ork helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in p...
12: ...iday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to find that his research project had been taken over b...
15: ...mented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so ye... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
7: ...age 19) of such competition mainstays as the Prokofiev ''Toccata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rha...
9: ...hmaninoff]], [[Olivier Messiaen]] and Sergei Prokofiev, a notable record pairing Rachmaninov's [[Piano...
17: ...[[Mikhail Pletnev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pian...
20: ...nique de Montr顬]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3/[[B鬡 Bartar... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: ...e.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
9: ...al star, Baker also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse ...
11: ... and public persona into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stu...
17: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys...
19: ... show opened to rave reviews, but Baker never benefited from it. She died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.]
21: ''Greek Fire: The Story Of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassi... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that...
7: ... Her recorded accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armst...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...hild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
6: ...mbing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turne...
8: ...n in [[Washington, D.C.]], where she was mostly a file clerk but helped in the development of a [[shar...
10: ... Department]] assigned Mr. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | ...
14: ...[[oyster]]s, [[sole (fish) | sole]] meuni貥, and fine wine as a culinary revelation. She described th... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
17: ... a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the judges had even found her ...
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were info...
28: ...s sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'': - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ...ngly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Ge...
11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
13: Upon their arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to...
15: ...]. Only German spies, some Polish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: ...y]]'' from ([[1976 in television|1976]]-[[1983 in film|1983]]).
9: She has directed several successful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]], incl...
11: ==Filmography==
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
24: *''[[Special Delivery (1999 film)|Special Delivery]]'' (1999)
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