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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...t|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shie...
5: ...Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power...
7: ... a shadowy figure of whom we know little, and scholars are not certain whether the "Brettones" he led ...
15: ...son called Artuir and whose life was somewhat similar to Arthur's.
19: ...ith Arthur, chief giver of feasts, with his tall blades red from the battle which all men remember." - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...tained a Law degree from [[South Texas College of Law]] but never practiced. On[[ 16 November]] [[1954...
7: .... In [[1963]] this suit (amalgamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') rea...
9: ...ic policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
11: ...orn again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
13: Madalyn Murray O'Hair clashed not only with religious believers but with ma... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...uently played in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ... in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the stage name...
9: ...]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the...
11: ...tionship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The ...
13: ...]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful business... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...ctober 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russia]]n o...
4: ...[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
6: ... [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated wi...
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mode...
3: ...|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
7: ...n she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduatin...
13: ...bian]], met her life-long companion [[Alice B. Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude ...
17: ... to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French government for this work... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
4: ...lot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
8: ...lane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havilland Gipsy Moth|Gipsy Moth]] (registration G-AAAH) n...
10: ...ying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]] co-piloted with [[Jack Humphrey...
12: ...], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a [[Pe... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ..., her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female sexuality, an...
8: ...y on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to ide...
10: ...d had not forgotten it. Maria Alexandrovna particularly disapproved of Marina's poetic inclination. Sh...
12: ...r travels she acquired Italian, French and German languages. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
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... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...College, where her father taught in the evenings. Later they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe...
8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
9: ... seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
12: ...by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively downhill.
15: ...y ''decisively'' proved until some 25 or so years later'. Rosalind Franklin never did work on the B fo... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ... development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
7: ...the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercially as the [[...
9: ... to English rather than in [[machine code]] or in languages close to machine code, such as the [[assem... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ...eks, and her career as a professional pianist was launched.
7: ...er her often exaggerated dynamics and tempi, her playing is characterised by her passionate and unique...
9: ... especially for her recordings of [[20th century classical music|20th century]] works by composers suc...
17: ...gei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: Ma Mere L'Oye'' (... - 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, ... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...of Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
3: ...spare Spontini|Spontini]]'s ''[[La Vestale]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Pucci...
5: ... of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many bel can...
7: ...ly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...eppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], ...
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... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...hattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[1920s]] and...
5: ...an developing her own act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gaine...
7: ...lroad car), Bessie Smith became the highest-paid black entertainer of her day. Her recorded accompanim...
9: ...ver, never stopped performing. While the days of elaborate shows were over, she continued touring and ...
11: ...de" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popular recordings. - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ...shing Child, a high-ranking OSS cartographer, and later to [[China]], where she received the Emblem of...
10: ...o cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris af...
14: ...oted that she was the only female in most of the classes that she attended there. She joined the wome...
16: ...d recipes, and Mrs. Child translated the [[French language | French]] into [[American English]], makin... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
7: ...ary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She cont...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
13: ...nto [[Yugoslavia]] and joined a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan group]]. In May 13th, 1944, Hannah a...
15: ...h other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to ke... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...r her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving ...
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...
11:
17: ... to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wladyslaw Sikorski|Władysław Sikorski]]: - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: ...[[television|TV]] [[situation comedy|sitcom]] ''[[Laverne and Shirley]]'' from ([[1976 in television|1...
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
28: *''[[Jumpin' Jack Flash]]'' (1986)
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