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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...sted: in the earliest mentions and Welsh texts he is never given the title "King." Early texts refer ...
2: ...of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
3: ==The Arthur of history==
4: :''Main article: [[Historical basis for King Arthur]]''
5: ... [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he wielded... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church...
4: ...arried [[Roman Catholic]] and refused to divorce his wife to marry Madalyn, who nonetheless divorced R...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') reached the [[United States ...
9: ...the separation of church and state, and addresses issues of [[First Amendment to the United States Con... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: Pickford was born '''Gladys Louise Smith''' in [[Toronto, Ontario]], [[Canada]] (fo...
7: ...he play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickfor...
9: ...d from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public's inability to acc...
11: ...and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
15: ...g "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funeral. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...[Russia]] - died [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] wri...
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...|American]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the developme...
7: ...]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two ...
11: ...2 she moved to [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
12: ...aris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...me a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters. - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...– [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hul...
6: ...rom this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ... received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
12: ...Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Percival Gull]], in [[May]] [[193...
14: ...], she married the famous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after t... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...ry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...o cause her to identify herself with the Polish aristocracy.)
10: ...nation. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...ionable Marina. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until Ju... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ... [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a signi...
7: ...oore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
11: ... in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," an...
13: ...lic narrative encompassing almost entire English history. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...pril 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made important co...
5: ...ish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ... the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...y about her decision to leave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though h...
12: ...arch project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which we... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to work o...
9: ... code, such as the [[assembler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her...
14: ...1980s by the National Bureau of Standards, now [[NIST]].
18: ...d take to make life easier for their users. She visited a large fraction of Digital engineering facil... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: ...rgerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] origin.
5: ...a few weeks, and her career as a professional pianist was launched.
7: ...rated dynamics and tempi, her playing is characterised by her passionate and unique sound.
9: ...accompanying instrumentalists in [[sonata]]s. She is noted especially for her recordings of [[20th cen...
11: ...gerich has been tireless in promoting younger pianists, through her annual festival, and does frequent... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ... toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: On [[October 2]], [[1925]], she opened in [[Paris]] at the Th颴re [[Champs-Elys饳]], where she be...
9: ...tes|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the era. The write...
11: ... a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'a...
13: ...lizing that the wine he forced her to drink was poisoned, she managed to excuse herself and escaped fr... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...al debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Ru...
7: ...retations with an increasingly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...h the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed ...
11: ...later, when Onassis left Callas for [[Jackie Onassis|Jacqueline Kennedy]], widow of assassinated US pr... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...oted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singin...
4: ...ort News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her ...
6: ...t was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
10: ...e]]'s voice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...rcer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a lyricist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Rid... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...9]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the greatest [[jazz]]...
7: ...an working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move to [[New York]] with her mother...
9: ...ing to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... the first to hear and publicise her, although it is generally agreed that Hammond was the first). Ham...
16: ...]] to glowing reviews. The performance, with pianist (and then-lover) [[Bobby Henderson]], did much t... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...f the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]],...
9: ... and a string section--a musical environment that is radically different from any found on her recordi...
11: ...studio, dropped by for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, prefe...
13: ...ling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, Mississippi along [[United States Highway 61]]. She wa...
17: ...ance....She died some eight or ten hours after admission to the hospital. We gave her every medical at... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
1: ...ild.jpg|frame|right|Julia Child holds up a [[Monkfish]].]]
2: ...astering the Art of French Cooking'' and the television series ''[[The French Chef]]'', which premiere...
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ...of Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...ir large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States State Department | U.S.... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...h woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...in [[Hungary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old....
9: ...he joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zionism|Zionist]] student organization.
11: ...n a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Operations Executive|SOE]].
13: ...mission and was interned in the [[Horthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...l SOE's women agents. (She actually became a British agent months before the [[Special Operations Exe...
7: ...9]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...muggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to...
11: ...ase by feigning symptoms of pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo h...
13: ...e viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: '''Penny Marshall''' ([[October 15]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, producer a...
3: ... Bronx]], [[New York City|New York]]. She is the sister of writer, producer and director [[Garry Marsh...
5: ... ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' from ([[1976 in television|1976]]-[[1983 in film|1983]]).
14: *''[[How Sweet It Is!]]'' (1968)
16: *''[[The Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
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