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  1. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    25: ...stian faith]] by "demonstrating" that Cadoc, the Christian leader, had magical powers traditionally as...
    39: ...scure 500-year-old Welsh legend went mainstream (through the works of [[Anglo-Norman]] poet [[Wace]] a...
    41: ...eur|jongleurs]]''. The French medieval writer, [[Chr鴩en de Troyes]], recounted tales from the mythos...
    62: ...llowed by [[Thomas Malory]], Arthur obtained the throne by pulling a [[sword]] from a stone and anvil....
    64: ...t-Vulgate version, the sword's blade could slice through anything and its sheath made the wearer invin...
  2. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
    11: ...on]]. In [[1980]] her son William converted to [[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [...
    18: ...charges and in January [[2001]] he led police to three bodies buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, late...
    21: ...late to a non-religious outlook (given that many Christians are reported to erroneously believe atheis...
    24: ...s circulating in [[2003]], still warning about a threat to ''Touched by An Angel'' months after the pr...
  3. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    5: ...harlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was ...
    9: ...en tested and hired her for a part in a one-reel thriller, ''The Lonely Villa'' in 1909. Pickford woul...
    11: ... Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret message of thei...
    17: == Partial chronology ==
    27: ...She gets $675,000(about $10 million in 2005) for three films with First National, plus 50% of all prof...
  4. 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...
  5. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    7: ...ed to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she wa...
    52: ...is described through the repetition of narrative phrases such as "As I was saying" and "There will be ...
    58: ...s choice of, "the drabbest and least significant phrases," in ''L'Histoire du Soldat'' to Gertrude Ste...
    66: ...ing [[Virgil Thomson]]'s operas ''Four Saints in Three Acts'', ''The Mother of Us All'', and [[James T...
    70: *''[[Three Lives]]'' (1909)
  6. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
    10: ...illand]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphreys]].
    20: ...pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidl...
  7. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
    20: ...ournal: "In the air of the compartment hung only three axe-like words: ''bourgeois, Junkers, leeches''...
    26: ...ilitary officer. This affair became widely known throughout ''emigr駧 circles, and even to Efron hims...
    32: ...d the critics [[D. S. Mirsky]] and [[Aleksandr Bakhrakh]].
    41: ...e to [[Chistopol]]. On [[August 31|31 August]], [[1941]] Tsvetaeva hanged herself. The exact location of...
  8. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
    9: ...lar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one o...
    11: ...various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]]...
    13: ...f's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambivalence and meditation on...
    15: ...in that I am going mad again: I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't...
  9. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
    9: ...rned [[X-ray]] diffraction techniques during her three years at the ''Laboratoire central des services...
    18: ...id Franklin would have made the discovery within three months, if he and Watson had not published thei...
  10. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    34: Throughout much of her later career, Grace Hopper wa...
  11. Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
    3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
    11: ...has been tireless in promoting younger pianists, through her annual festival, and does frequently appe...
  12. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    13: ...ed to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awa...
    15: ...r personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
    17: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys...
    21: Josephine Baker went through six marriages: foundry worker Willie Wells (1...
    36: ...ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151636/ Moulin Rouge (1941)]''
  13. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    5: ...a]] and [[Il Trovatore|Leonora]] during the next three years. In [[1947]], Callas made her Italian deb...
    7: Throughout the 1950s, Callas made numerous appearance...
  14. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    2: ...ner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity...
    10: ...]], [[gospel]], [[calypso music|calypso]], and [[Christmas]] songs. Ella's later concerts were often e...
    20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was ...
    52: *1960 ''[[Wishes You a Merry Christmas]]''
    75: *1967 ''[[Ella Fitzgerald's Christmas]]''
  15. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    7: ...n. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be rais...
    9: ...d see him, she would shake him down for money by threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday ...
    18: ...tcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy.
    28: ...rried trombonist Jimmy Monroe on [[August 25]], [[1941]]. While still married to Monroe, she took up wit...
  16. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t...
    19: ... the great blues singer was refused admission to three Clarksdale hospitals because she was black. In ...
    21: ...th, who tended to Bessie on the scene (quoted in Chris Albertson's book) confirmed, it is extremely un...
  17. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    2: ...nd cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and television program...
    6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
    16: ...and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly tested recipes, and M...
    36: ...odate her height and which served as the set for three of her television series, to the [[Smithsonian ...
  18. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
    13: ... tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to torture her mother as well. The mother ...
    28: ... her songs is ''(Halichah L'Kesariyah'' ("A Walk Through Cesarea"), commonly known as ''Eili, Eili'' (...
    61: :''One - two - three... eight long''
    64: :''One - two - three... maybe another week.''
  19. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    3: ...nt]] also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She became celebrated especi...
    7: ...cor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she married the choleric writer [[Jerzy Gizyck...
    11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
    15: ... flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vich...
    17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla...
  20. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    16: *''[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
    18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)

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