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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...hn A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
18: *[[Ian Adam|Adam, Ian]], (born 1937), Canadian writer
26: ...as Adamkus|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
39: ... Adams|Adams, Bryan]], (born 1959), [[Canada|Canadian]] singer
49: ...y Adams|Adams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn F驮]] leader - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
2: ...II|Golden Jubilee]] in [[2002]], wearing her Canadian Orders.)]]
7: ...w Guinea]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[So...
9: ... Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head...
20: ...to commemorate the centenary of the [[Entente Cordiale]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was in...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...dash; [[May 2]], [[1964]]) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ...h-century tastemaker and the owner of the influential British decorating firm [[Sibyl Colefax & John F...
6: ... 2nd Viscount Astor|Waldorf Astor]], son of [[William Waldorf Astor, 1st Viscount Astor]] and grandson...
8: ... of Commons]] as MP for [[Plymouth Sutton (UK Parliament constituency)|Plymouth Sutton]]. Nancy Astor ...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ... the United States of America|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the comm...
9: ...almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] f...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
16: ...h Cook's assessment that Mrs. Roosevelt was a lesbian. Eleanor Roosevelt's sexuality continues to be a...
20: ...n to perform from the steps of the [[Lincoln Memorial]], to a live audience of 70,000, and a nationwid... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ... [[Maine]], and one of the most successful politicians in Maine history. She was the first woman to be...
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
7: ...nate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[William Cohen|Bill Cohen]]).
9: She received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbe...
11: ...ff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCa... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. She spent a number of years in th...
6: ...repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with...
9: ...the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, a...
18: ...mmary of the principle of [[Eminent domain|expropriation]] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Pe...
21: ...ral days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchists with the deat... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...States|American]] [[birth control]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradual...
5: ...of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Although stricken by tuberculosis, she g...
7: ...y risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] w...
9: ...health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper, ''The Call''.
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...ndreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
3: ...ece on the Stalinist terror "Requiem", to substantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". He...
7: ...910]]. Their son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
9: ...tova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: '''Virginia Woolf''' ([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[Marc...
7: ...oolf's work can be understood as consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (...
9: ... titled "Melymbrosia," but due to criticism Virginia Woolf received about the political nature of the ...
11: ... literary achievements and creativity are influential even today. - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...o the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to th...
9: ....]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The writer [[Ern...
11: ...na into a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legall...
15: ... similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...lly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
4: She was born in [[Newport News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers,...
20: ... In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was later annulled. Her second husband was the...
22: ...Inglewood Park Cemetery]] in [[Inglewood, California]].
86: == [[ Columbia_Records|Columbia]] Albums == - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ublished in [[1956]]. She was born in [[Philadelphia]] but grew up in the [[Fells Point]] section of [...
9: ...s the father as a "[[Frank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by ...
14: ...onette's (there is still some dispute among historians about who was the first to hear and publicise h...
16: ...ter]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did muc...
18: ...able timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...ed the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
11: ...and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
15: ... charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from the pro-[[Vichy]] [[France|French]] [[cons... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...ney]]. Her spymaster during her time in the [[Special Operations Executive]] (SOE) was [[Leopold Samue...
7: ... headquarters on the factories producing war materials for the Germans were extremely important to est...
11: ...ns: [[Denise Bloch]], [[Cecily Lefort]], and [[Lilian Rolfe]].
13: ...on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in the town of [[Valen硹]], in the [[Indre]] ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: .... By [[1935]] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
8: ...on her return to [[New York City]] in 1943 her social circle included the likes of [[Andre Breton]], [...
10: ...50s, Deren became heavily involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|voodoo]]. Not only did she film many... - 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: ... performed in [[U.S.O.]] shows instead). They initially divorced in [[1945]], but remarried the same y...
11: ...ow eventually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced ...
13: ... at her grandfather's insistence (per [[FBI]] [[FOIA]]-released documents). - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
18: ...nmemorable plays until she played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her por...
26: ...llulah Bankhead died in New York City of [[pneumonia]] arising from [[influenza]], complicated further...
40: *It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
79: *1924 [[This Marriage]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
9: ...in ([[1956]])'s ''[[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Holl...
11: ...ish language|English]] and [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gie...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
56: * [[Anastasia (1956 movie)|Anastasia]] (1956)
63: * [[Stimulantia]] (1967) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ...al Studios]], but they felt she was not star material, and in [[1932]], they let her sign with [[Warne...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
13: Sensing renewed [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Jack Warner]] s...
17: ...ren with Merrill, Margot, who was confined to special education schools for most of her life due to a ...
21: ...ciences. This was to protect an Oscar from commercial exploitation. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...ult the Hepburn children became well-versed in social and political issues. Once a very young Kathari...
12: ...le separated. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain...
32: ...s headstrong, her work ethic and talent were undeniable, and the following year ([[1933]]), Hepburn wo...
37: ...humb|Hepburn and James Stewart in ''The Philadelphia Story'']]
38: ...ite and three colored." Hepburn's aversion to media attention did not thaw until [[1973]], when she a...
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