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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
44: *[[Douglas Adams|Adams, Douglas]], (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker'...
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
87: ...[Joseph Addison|Addison, Joseph]], (1672-1719), English poet - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...f England|Supreme Governor]] of the [[Church of England]], [[Commander-in-Chief]] of the [[UK Armed Fo...
20: ...lways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]].
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
60: ...nd]] and at [[Sandringham House]] in [[Norfolk, England|Norfolk]].
62: ... the first reigning monarch to circumnavigate the globe, and also the first to visit [[Australia]], [[... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
6: ...sband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2n...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
37: ...esponsible for her son's defeat and grew increasingly disgusted with his political conduct through the...
43: ...ton" to avoid offending the magazine's overwhelmingly male readership. One of Mrs. Roosevelt's prized... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...in the [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic...
57: ... disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
19: ...in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: ...s, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," ...
13: ...d symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]])
62: ...pauw.edu/%7Eafernald/passing_glances.html Passing Glances. A list of incidental mentions of Woolf and... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
22: ...nterred in the [[Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]].
28: ...Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
16: ...934]], she performed at the [[Apollo Theater]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...s a teen, Krystyna's father now dead, she falteringly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A fir...
9: ...vement of the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [...
42: ...hellip;] a British passport; for ever since the Anglo-American betrayal of her country at Yalta she ha... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ... of a [[France|French]] mother and an [[England|English]] father, born '''Violette Bushell''' in [[Par...
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic...
9: She returned to England and quickly was sent back to [[Limoges]] in Fr... - 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...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - 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...
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...
56: ... foul-tasting and [[alcohol]]ic concoction (amusingly, Lucille the actress quite enjoyed the taste)...... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
10: ...he [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
24: ...never faded from the public eye, but was increasingly a caricature of her former self.
97: *1936 [[Reflected Glory]]
105: *1947 [[The Eagle Has Two Heads]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
11: ... [[French language|French]], [[English language|English]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, w...
13: ...]] on her birthday in [[1982]] in [[London]], [[England]]. She was cremated in Sweden, her ashes scatt...
31: * [[One Single Night]] (1939)
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
65: * [[Henri Langlois]] (1970) (documentary) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
27: ...r the song "[[Bette Davis Eyes]]" became a hit single, Davis wrote letters to songwriters [[Donna Weis...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...e]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] gentility and fierce independence. A screen...
30: ...d wear overalls and ratty tennis shoes instead of glamorous clothing fit for a starlet, prompting RKO ...
32: ...''[[Morning Glory]]''. <!-- more here on Morning Glory, since it was her first Oscar --> That same y...
50: ...e judged. Hepburn, with her agile mind and New England brogue, complemented Tracy's easy working-clas...
60: ... acceptance speech, carried one of Hepburn's silk gloves in her purse during the Oscars for luck. As n...
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