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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
26: ...us|Adamkus, Valdas]], (born 1926), Lithuanian president
41: ...35-1915), son of above, Civil War General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]]
43: ... Charles Francis]] (born 1910), son of above, president of [[Raytheon]]
44: ..., (1952-2001), British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
54: ...John Adams|Adams, John]], (1735-1826), second President of the United States - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
15: ...e. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmot...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
27: ...been taught together with other students. It is said that she greatly enjoyed this and that this exper...
35: ...ter their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up residence at [[Clarence House]], London. On [[14 Novem...
60: ...rs she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Windsor Castle]], west of London, to be her ... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] candidate in the required by-election. Elected on [[Nove...
10: ...ston Churchill]] as his replacement. Her son [[David Astor]], who became editor/owner of ''The Observe...
12: ...cation that they had it easy because they were avoiding the real war in France and the future invasion...
20: # [[David Astor|Francis David Langhorne Astor]] (1912-2001) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...] activist, [[diplomat]] and as the wife of [[President of the United States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt...
5: ...ghts|Universal Declaration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lad...
9: ...arriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
13: ...an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President.
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... problems encountered by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was i...
9: ...ed the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in [[1989]...
11: ...Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning...
14: |width="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wa...
15: |width="40%" align="center"|[[U.S. Senators from Maine... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
6: ...Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
18: ...ed their verdict off of the testimony of one invididual, a Detective Jacobs. [[Voltairine de Cleyre]] ...
20: ==Conspiracy to assassinate the President==
21: ...oldman's advice on a course of study in anarchist ideas. Leon Czolgosz was found guilty of murder and... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...verty-stricken [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she al...
9: ... first of its kind in the United States. It was raided by the police and Sanger was arrested for viola...
11: ...Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[menstr...
13: ...gislation for Birth Control and served as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth c...
15: ... of America. From 1952 to 1959, she served as president of the International Planned Parenthood Federa... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: ...St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]].
17: ...ova/index.html Akhmatova website with biography, video] - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...ere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's work can be understood as consistent...
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English...
13: ...he Lighthouse" is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions r...
15: ...], near her home in [[Rodmell]]. She left a [[suicide note]] for her husband: "I feel certain that I a...
17: [[Hermione Lee]]'s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, u... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
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]]
12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
123: ...al of Arts|National Medal of Art]] awarded by President [[Ronald Reagan]] ([[1987]]) - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...e:Billie_Holiday.jpg|right|thumb|<small>Billie Holiday photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</sma...
3: ... '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of a...
7: ...or [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they ...
9: ...y threatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: Settling in [[Harlem]], Holiday began singing informally in numerous clubs. Aro... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
11: ...Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, t...
26: Krystyna now spent an appreciable hiatus, sidelined from substantial action. Her situation wou...
30: ... [[Gestapo]]. Krystyna — under the assumed identity of "Pauline Armand" — parachuted into... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...mmortalised in the film ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'', based on the book of the same name by [[R.J...
7: ...shed by the Germans. She led them in sabotaging bridges and her reports to SOE headquarters on the fac... - 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: ...orsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often considered a definitive source. The accompanying docume...
14: ...ng Light at Sandover]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
19: ... of the Afternoon]]'' (1943) with [[Alexander Hammid]], music by [[Teiji Ito]] added 1959 - 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...
4: ... a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...en again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her li...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...rced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
8: ...She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among ...
16: ...nders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a ...
20: ...[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her ... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[Aug...
3: ...dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermez...
9: ...r final performance on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
17: ... contribution to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fam...
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insincere. So, she enrolled in [[John Murray ...
7: ... [[1929]], in ''Broken Dishes'' and later in ''Solid South''. The next year, she was hired by [[Univer...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
13: ...ted not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Henreid directing Davis in the [[camp]]y dual role as a m...
23: ...On her [[tomb stone|tombstone]] is written, "She did it the hard way." - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ... [[film]], [[television]] and [[theatre|stage]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] ...
5: ...but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credit...
7: ...e athletic, and encouraged [[swimming]], [[horse|riding]], [[golf]] and [[tennis]]. Hepburn, eager to...
8: ...pand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
12: ...they were married, the couple separated. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashio...
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