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  1. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    1: ...ritain]]." There is disagreement about whether Arthur, or a model for him, ever actually existed: in t...
    2: ...87.jpg|right|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jo...
    3: ==The Arthur of history==
    4: :''Main article: [[Historical basis for King Arthur]]''
    5: ...ed by scholars. One school of thought believes Arthur to have lived sometime in the late [[5th century...
  2. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    1: ...theists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
    4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
    9: ...s]] of nonbelievers, works for the separation of church and state, and addresses issues of [[First Ame...
    11: ...and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
    24: Madalyn Murray O'Hair achieved posthumous notoriety among users of the [[Internet]] thr...
  3. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    15: ...ford reportedly began to weep in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She wa...
    16: [[Image:Pickford01.jpg|right|thumb|183px|Mary Pickford]]
    28: ...iffith]], [[William S. Hart]], and her soon-to-be husband, Fairbanks, and became its first vice presid...
    34: * [[1941]]: The [[Society of Independent Motion Picture Pr...
    35: * [[1949]]: Pickford and her husband form Pickford-Rogers-Boyd, a radio and telev...
  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)
    3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. T...
    9: [[image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pabl...
    23: ...pled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thus at the opening of the German occupation of Franc...
    25: [[image:Gertrude Stein 1935-01-04.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein, photographed by [[Carl Va...
    34: ...atic, playful, sometimes repetitive and sometimes humorous style. Typical quotes are
  6. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    2: ...lish [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
    10: ... Havilland]] [[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...
    27: ....uk/humber/famous_folk/amyjohnson/biog1.shtml BBC Humber site for Johnson centenary]
  7. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
    20: ...returned to Moscow hoping to be reunited with her husband. She was trapped in Moscow for five years. D...
    22: ...to the volunteers in the White Army, in which her husband was fighting as an officer.
    34: Meanwhile, Tsvetaeva's husband was rapidly developing Soviet sympathies and...
    36: Tsvetaeva does not seem to have known that her husband was a spy, nor the extent to which he was co...
  8. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
    13: ...rradiates Joycean epiphanies on the universals of human condition. The intensity of Virginia Woolf's p...
    15: ... [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I am going mad again: ...
    38: *''Between the Acts'' ([[1941]])
  9. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
    8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
    15: ...covered that there were two forms of DNA, at high humidity (when wet) the DNA fibre became long and th...
    25: ... death in [[1958]] had made her ineligible. (Posthumous prizes are permitted only if the recipient di...
  10. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Grace Hopper.jpg|thumbnail|200px|Grace Hopper (January 1984)]] Rear A...
    3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    11: [[Image:GraceHopper.jpg|thumbnail|left|172px|Grace Hopper]]
    33: [[Image:H96566k.jpg|thumbnail|185px|Photo of first [[computer bug]].]]
  11. Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Martha Argerich.jpeg|right|thumb|Martha Argerich]]
    3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
    7: ...cata'' and Liszt's ''Sixth [[Hungarian Rhapsodies|Hungarian Rhapsody]]'' remain yardsticks for these w...
  12. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
    13: ...lf and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the [[Croix d...
    17: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys...
    36: ...ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151636/ Moulin Rouge (1941)]''
  13. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Callas as Anna Bolena.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Maria Callas in the title role of Donizet...
    5: ...al debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Ru...
    13: ...e funeral service was held at the Greek Orthodox Church on Rue Georges-Bizet on the [[20 September]], ...
  14. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vech...
    10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
    20: ... but the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [...
    90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]''
  15. Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Va...
    28: ...rried trombonist Jimmy Monroe on [[August 25]], [[1941]]. While still married to Monroe, she took up wit...
  16. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    1: [[Image:BessieSmith.jpg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vec...
    2: ... [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
    7: ...song written and previously recorded by [[Alberta Hunter]]. Working a heavy theatre schedule during th...
    11: ...ch [[Swing Era]] musicians as Frankie Newton and Chu Berry. Even [[Benny Goodman]], who happened to be...
    17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t...
  17. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
    8: ... [[Sri Lanka]]) in 1943, where she met her future husband Paul Cushing Child, a high-ranking OSS carto...
    10: ... palate who came from a prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts | Boston]] family and had lived in [[Paris]]...
    16: ...d around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repeatedly teste...
    24: ...Julia Child's Kitchen'', was illustrated with her husband's photographs.
  18. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    1: [[Image:3213_2.jpg|thumb]]
    3: ...921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisan...
    7: ...sh) was born to an assimilated Jewish family in [[Hungary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and...
    9: ...-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
    11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
  19. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    9: ...uding journalist Frederick Voigt. She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persua...
    11: ...Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
    15: ...stanbul]], [[Turkey]], during their flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-man...
    17: ... of [[SOE]] &mdash; in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla...
    22: ... had invaded the [[Soviet Union]] ([[June 22]], [[1941]]) as her intelligence obtained from the Musketee...
  20. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)

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