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- Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
7: ...tardom, and she landed a leading role in a 1907 [[Broadway]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was wr...
9: ...Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disap...
15: ...f his death, Pickford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling...
22: ...3]]: Appears (with [[Lillian Gish]]) in Belasco's Broadway production ''A Good Little Devil'' - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
1: [[Image:Mattehistorie germain.jpg|frame|Sophie Germain]]
3: ...6]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]] [[mathematician]].
5: ...ears later, she managed to get some lecture notes from several courses at [[ɣole Polytechnique]], a s...
9: ...edes]], Germain requested that General Pernety, a friend of hers, personally ensure Gauss's safety. Th...
17: ...became the first female to attend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
22: Already blinded because she suffered from [[diabetes]], she lost her [[leg]]s in [[1993]]...
24: ...1980' s hit "Ella , elle l' a" by French singer [[France Gall]].
33: *1955 ''[[Songs from Pete Kelly's Blues]]''
54: *1960 ''[[Sings Songs from Let No Man Write My Epitaph]]''
62: *1963 ''[[Ella Sings Broadway]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
1: [[Image:aretha_franklin.jpg|thumb|200px|Aretha Franklin]]
2: ...itive [[Grammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the g...
6: ... jazz singer, the results never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovativ...
8: ... of pride for the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went t...
12: Among her most successful hit singles from this era were ''"Chain of Fools"'', ''"You Make... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: Alanis's Surname "Morissette" is French in origin. Her [[1995]] international debut ...
12: ...er early idols, and said over the intercom at the front gates: ''"Hi, I'm Alanis. I want to meet you o...
23: ...he would later write about in songs such as "UR" (from the album ''[[Supposed Former Infatuation Junki...
38: ...is''. The album attempted to move Morissette away from her debut album's dance-pop sound. However, ''N...
42: ...to [[Nashville]] a few months later also proved unfruitful. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
9: ...a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordings.
11: ...ing band included such [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]]...
13: ...oned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she neve...
17: ...tention, but we were never able to rally her back from the shock.''
19: ...led to death without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit ... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...rmer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spina...
9: ...s philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] ...
22: From a production aspect, the use of actual [[film]]...
24: ...ilming the show, cans of paint (in shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to 'pain...
28: ...[[1986]], Arnaz and Ball would remain the best of friends. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
18: Returning to [[Broadway]], Tallulah's career stalled in unmemorable plays...
20: In 1944, [[Alfred Hitchcock]] cast her as journalist and cynic Co...
22: ...d continued to perform in the 1950s and 1960s, on Broadway, in the occasional film, as a highly-popular radi...
24: ...falling star in the Sixties. Bankhead never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricatu... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...laimed to have named the "Oscar", but only served from October to December [[1941]], when she resigned...
21: ...e Arts and Sciences. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation.
23: ...October 6]], [[1989]] in [[Neuilly-sur-Seine]], [[France]], following a long battle with [[breast canc... - Judi Dench (3254 bytes)
13: ...Awards]]. She has also appeared with success on [[Broadway]]. - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
5: ... came as a surprise to Mia, who did not even know Frank was thinking of leaving her. They divorced in ...
11: ... her marriage with Andr預revin (3 adopted) and 3 from her time with Woody Allen (2 adopted).
18: * Farrow became friends with [[Roman Polanski]] and his wife [[Sharo...
20: ...o had an affair with his sister. Seamus graduated from [[Bard College]] in [[2004]].
44: *''[[Broadway Danny Rose]]'' ([[1984]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
6: ...gust of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, passed away unexpectedly.
8: ...rican American]] influenced songs. In the 1895 [[Broadway]] show ''[[The Widow Jones]]'', she introduced "T... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...oy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broadway]] the same year, giving Andrews her American debu...
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andre...
9: ...]]'', co-starring with [[Max von Sydow]], and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul ...
11: ....jpg|left|frame|With [[Dick van Dyke]] in a scene from the film ''Mary Poppins'']]''[[Star!]]'', a [[1...
15: ... a [[Toronto]] revival of ''The Boy Friend'', the Broadway musical in which she made her debut in America. - United States (58223 bytes)
36: established_dates = From [[Great Britain]]<br> [[July 4]], [[1776]]<br>[...
58: ...on of the Americas]], [[thirteen colonies]] split from Great Britain and formed the United States, the...
60: ... the [[Emancipation Proclamation]], mandating the freedom of all slaves in states in rebellion, though...
62: ...e U.S. acquired a number of overseas possessions, from [[Cuba]] to the [[Philippines]], though it gave...
70: ... American people. Americans enjoy [[universal suffrage]]. ''More information at the Main article: [[P... - Roaring Twenties (28131 bytes)
1: ...ng with the return of young [[soldier]]s from the fronts of the [[Great War]] and emergence of a new a...
3: ... this decade was termed "The Golden Twenties". In France and Canada they were also called the "Crazy Y...
5: ...ge parts of the [[population]]. Formal decorative frills were shed in favor of practicality, in [[arch...
8: ...es|economy of the USA]], took sometime to convert from [[War economy|a wartime economy]] to a peacetim...
19: ...f-censorship that is in place today, editors were free to entertain an audience in any and every way. ... - January 2 (10888 bytes)
6: *[[366]] - [[Alamanni]] cross the frozen [[Rhine]] in large numbers, invading [[Roman ...
19: *[[1879]] - [[Fred Spofforth]] claims the first [[Hat-trick]] in [...
28: ... - [[DeYoung Museum]] in [[Golden Gate Park]] San Francisco opens.
33: ...ship]] program with a stated goal of building 200 freighters. Over 2,700 ships will eventually be con...
39: *[[1957]] - [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] and [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angele... - Cable car (railway) (12669 bytes)
2: ...[Image:Cable_Car.jpg|thumb|right|Cable Car in San Francisco]]
3: [[Image:Sf_cable_car.jpg|thumb|right|A San Francisco cable car]]
9: ...le. Conversely the car is stopped by detaching it from the cable, and then applying brakes. This gripp...
16: ...nkers Patent Railway]] in [[New York]], which ran from [[1 July]] [[1868]] to [[1870]]. The cable tech...
18: ...Station.jpg|thumb|right|Machinery driving the San Francisco Cable Car]] - Warren G. Harding (30163 bytes)
13: | place of death=[[San Francisco]], [[California]]
18: .... A [[United States Republican Party|Republican]] from the [[U.S. state]] of [[Ohio]], Harding was an ...
20: ...ly three years into his term due to complications from [[pneumonia]] and possible food poisoning. He w...
25: ...ion, Ohio|Marion]], where he raised $300 with two friends to purchase the failing ''[[Marion Daily Sta...
27: ...arding's term for informal conversation) with his friends over games of [[poker]].
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