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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...y]] of [[Great Britain]], where he appears as the ideal of kingship in both war and peace. He is the ...
7: ... Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have argued for identifying Arthur with a certain [[Riothamus]], "Ki...
9: ...ding the historical career of Artorius makes this identification unlikely, as there seems to be little...
19: ...hur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy," whic...
21: ...n the battle of [[Mons Badonicus]], where he is said to have single-handedly killed 960 men. According... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
9: ... Madalyn founded [[American Atheists]], "a nationwide movement which defends the [[civil rights]] of n...
13: ...d behave. In a [[1982]] address she criticized a wide variety of atheists as being unacceptable, seemi...
18: ... bodies buried on a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...ianity, which included specific attacks on its validity using quotes from the [[Bible]], was flawed an... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...or some reason, Pickford always claimed that her middle name was Marie). Her father, John Charles Smit...
7: ... also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biogr...
28: ...husband, Fairbanks, and became its first vice president in 1936.
29: ... a performance that was praised by critics but avoided by her fans for not sticking to her little girl... - 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... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
7: ...tsburgh|Allegheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna...
23: ...llaborative Vichy government, but by the end she did not, having witnessed firsthand the hardship it b...
29: ... the answer?" When Toklas did not answer, Stein said, "In that case, what is the question?"
34: ...poems. Increasingly, she developed her own highly idiosyncratic, playful, sometimes repetitive and som...
37: ...ndness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out ... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
16: ...933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, Connecticut]].
20: ...941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidlington near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...nd the tension in women's private emotions; she bridges the mutually contradictory schools of [[Acmeis...
8: ...play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ... frequent and occasionally violent. There was considerable tension between Tsvetaeva's mother and Varv...
12: ...chool in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in the Tsvetaev residence led to several changes in school, and during ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
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... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
7: ==Cambridge and early career 1938-1950==
8: ...blem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basi...
9: ...tion at King's, but before leaving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately,...
12: ...informing Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fi...
15: ...e 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B form of DNA, and perhaps never knew... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: ... IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could be written in a language th...
16: ... led to her promotion to Commodore by special Presidential appointment. By [[1985]] she became a [[re...
18: ...capacity was as a goodwill ambassador, lecturing widely on the early days of computers, her career, an...
20: She was laid to rest with full military honors in [[Arlington ... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
7: ... Her technique is considered amongst the most formidable of her time, inviting comparison with [[Vladi... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
36: ...ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151636/ Moulin Rouge (1941)]'' - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...al debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Ru...
7: ...for many roles. Her later [[stereo]] recordings evidence masterly musical interpretations with an incr...
9: ...lay ''Master Class''). In 1972, George Moore, president of the Met board, offered her the job of Artis...
11: ...acqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US president [[John F. Kennedy]].
13: ...st my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Callas spent her last years living largely in i... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
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 ''[...
20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was ... - 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... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...ny, a show that also included [[Ma Rainey]], who did not teach Bessie to sing but probably helped her ...
7: ... railroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accomp...
9: ...iness, and the advent of talking pictures, which did [[vaudeville]] in. Bessie, however, never stopped...
11: ... her old blues groove, but "Take Me For A Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popul...
13: ...ton]]'s uncle) Richard Morgan. They were in an accident and Smith was severely injured. A doctor soon ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
10: Following [[World War II | the war]], she resided in Washington, D.C., where she was married on [...
16: ... Childs moved around Europe and finally to [[Cambridge, Massachusetts]], the three researched and repe...
20: ...the masses, the book is still in print and is considered a seminal culinary work. Upon this success, M...
22: ...e first television cook, Mrs. Child was the most widely seen and, with her cheery attitude and distinc... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
13: ...rthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to tortu...
55: :''Happy is the blaze that burnt inside the hearts.''
62: :''Two steps wide''
71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?) - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
11: ...Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, t...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — 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...
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... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
9: ...ssful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]], including ''[[Big]]'', ''[[Awakenings]...
17: *''[[How Come Nobody's on Our Side?]]'' (1975)
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
25: *''[[Stateside]]'' (2004)
34: *''[[Riding in Cars with Boys]]'' (2001)
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