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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
34: ...gail Adams|Adams, Abigail]], (1744-1818), [[First Lady of the United States]]
44: ..., British author of [[Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]
45: ...to Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
61: ...[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player
69: ...rchitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...m|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...e world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...[Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon]]), the daughter of [[Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and...
17: ...d VIII of the United Kingdom|The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII]].
20: ...ways been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...loguist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as a 20th-century tastema...
6: ...band, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where in 1906, she married [[Waldorf Astor, 2nd...
8: On the death of her father-in-law, her husband inherited the title ''Viscount Asto...
10: ... ''The Observer'' newspaper, would never forgive Claud Cockburn and his newssheet ''"The Week"'' for s...
12: ...]] song ''Lili Marlene'' that they called "The Ballad Of The D-Day Dodgers". - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ... States]] from [[1933]]-[[1945]]. An active First Lady, she traveled around the United States promotin...
5: ...sident [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive trave...
9: ...rations outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...ed to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons, Johannes and Jac...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]]. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...nate]]. She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 ...
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
11: ...speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He ...
14: ...h="30%" align="center"|'''Preceded by:'''<br>[[Wallace H. White, Jr.]] - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... [[Spanish Civil War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Feder...
6: ...revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy of [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To B...
13: ...ion of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her highly unpopular with the authorities. Berkman (or Sasha as she f...
18: ...rison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemployme...
21: ...ral weeks, they were released due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others with ... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sanger. Al...
7: ...he [[Comstock Law|Comstock Law of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contracept...
9: ... returned to the U.S. and resumed her activities, launching the periodical ''The Birth Control Review ...
11: ...ublished "What Every Girl Should Know," which was later widely distributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman...
13: ... 1927, Sanger helped organize the first World Population Conference in [[Geneva]]. - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: She married the poet [[Nikolay Gumilyov]] in [[1910]]. Their son, born in [[191...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: ... House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), ...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... consistently in dialogue with Bloomsbury, particularly its tendency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], amon...
9: ...as a public intellectual to both critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published thr...
11: ...the words of [[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and he...
13: ...he prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sum...
19: ==Modern scholarship== - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...cer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citize...
5: ... the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
7: ..., Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchest...
13: ...use herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the ...
15: ...h the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...e and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...e [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...the band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ... hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marily... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...ly 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of the gre...
7: ...er to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A hardened and angry child, she dropped out...
9: ...oliday: Wishing on the Moon'', ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a...
14: ...er first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: ... Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manh... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...ered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish entertaining. As a teen, Krystyna's father n...
9: ...pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Poland]] whose [[Germany|German]] occupiers would even...
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17: ... to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wladyslaw Sikorski|Władysław Sikorski]]: - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...aughter of a [[France|French]] mother and an [[England|English]] father, born '''Violette Bushell''' i...
7: ...hild, Tania, he was killed at the [[Battle of El Alamein]]. This was the event that caused Violette t...
9: ...ncentration camp]] where she was forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and e... - 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...
8: ...n]]. She continued making 16mm films such as "At Land" (1944) and "A Study in Choreography for Camera...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
12: ... 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated that her death was the result of a [[Vodoun|vo... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular stars in American history.
5: ... "had no future at all as a performer". Two years later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her broth...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from th...
17: [[image:chocolate_factory1.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Lucy and Ethel t... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: [[Image:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934...
2: ...show host, and bon vivant, born in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].
4: ...H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: At 15, Tallulah Bankhead won a movie-magazine beauty contest & c...
10: ...e [[West End (of London)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...lost both of her parents and was raised by some relatives; she studied at the [[Royal Dramatic Theater...
5: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]''. Two years later she received her first Academy Award nominatio...
7: ...rgman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... Orient Express]]'' ([[1975]]). In [[1978]] she played in [[Ingmar Bergman]]'s ''[[Autumn Sonata]]'' ...
11: ...actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...urray Anderson]]'s dramatic school (who sent her classmate [[Lucille Ball]] home because she was "too ...
7: ... Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played God]]'', and she became a star in ''[[Of Human...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...at Ever Happened to Baby Jane?]]'', in which she played a parody of herself opposite her long-time riv...
13: ...]'s ''[[Dead Ringer]]'' , opposite gigalo [[Peter Lawford]] and [[detective]] [[Karl Malden]]. In thi... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] gentility and fierce independence. A screen ...
5: ...eryone, but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who sh...
7: ...ging Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
10: ..., the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...d. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong f...
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