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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
21: ...Schwaetzer, Irmgard]], (1942-), German government minister
23: ==== Adami - Adamo ====
24: *[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor.
25: ...i, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
61: *[[Michael Adams|Adams, Michael]], (1971-), chess player - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
9: ...rrent head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
11: ...isters of the United Kingdom]] and numerous Prime Ministers in the other [[personal union|personal uni...
15: ...re. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmo...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...olitician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
10: ...reatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] to resign and suppo...
21: # [[Michael Langhorne Astor]] (1916-1979) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: ...a [[First-wave feminism|first-wave]] [[Feminism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American C...
5: ...ation]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal ...
11: ... New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch ...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
16: ...rly I remember your eyes, with a kind of teasing smile in them, and the feeling of that soft spot just... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: ...mage:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ... was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United St...
5: ...licts between states, local jurisdictions and the military.
11: ...w.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/SmithDeclaration.pdf] on the floor of the Senate, ear... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...ut the first half of the twentieth century. She immigrated to the [[United States]] at seventeen and w...
6: ...Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved with her family to [[St Petersburg]] at the age of thirteen. Th...
8: ==Immigration to America==
9: ... the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and her family and traveled to New Haven, CT, and then to [[Ne...
18: ... She was charged with "inciting a riot" by the criminal courts of New York, despite the testimonies of... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ... of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...d from William Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Browns...
13: ...1940). That year, she also formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and ...
15: ... at the time, the largest private international family planning organization.
24: ...tian church for its opposition to her message, blaming it for obscurantism and insensitivity to women'... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
7: ... son, born in [[1912]], was the historian [[Lev Gumilyov]].
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]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...s a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] and [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a si...
7: ...o a home in [[Bloomsbury, London|Bloomsbury]], forming the initial kernel for the intellectual circle ...
13: ...is a story on the Ramsay family holiday and the family members' interlocking tensions resolved in a vi...
17: ...s ''Virginia Woolf'' provides an authoritative examination of Woolf's life, updating the earlier biogr...
20: ...ly, studies of Virginia Woolf have focused on [[feminist]] and [[lesbian]] themes in her work, such as... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...k City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
9: ...ejudices common to the era. The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman any...
15: ...ith the [[Ziegfeld Follies]]; her personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages...
17: ...m in segregated nightclubs, and her insistence on mixed audiences helped to integrate shows in [[Las V...
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]]
10: ...r concerts were often enriched by some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was a...
117: *[[Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]] Medal of Honor Award ([[1979]])
131: *"Her artistry brings to mind the words of the maestro, Mr. [[Arturo Toscanin... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
16: ...s singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] ...
18: ...d for this shortcoming, however, with impecable timing, nuanced phrasing, and emotional immediacy.
20: ...ivial pop songs, her unique tone and emotional commitment made her performances special.
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
32: ...uncy, girlish voice had changed considerably, becoming somewhat rougher. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...and Stefania Goldfeder, daughter of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Krystyna Skarbek grew up in ...
9: ...on camps]]. An achievement of the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a se...
11: ...'s relation, the Hungarian Regent [[Miklos Horthy|Mikló³ ˆorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good t...
15: ... Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have understood, had they known her better &md... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...]'', based on the book of the same name by [[R.J. Minney]]. Her spymaster during her time in the [[Spe...
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...r father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Syracuse]], [[New ...
6: ... ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 tha...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
16: ...ased a documentary about Deren, titled ''[[In the Mirror of Maya Deren]].'' - 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...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the film version of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] st...
13: In [[1953]], she was subpoenaed by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]], due to her havin...
18: ... in part by the fact that each had a hectic performing schedule which often kept them apart. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
6: ...a movie-magazine beauty contest & convinced her family to let her move to New York. She quickly won bi...
8: ... although as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty tha...
12: ... her acting was flat and that she was unable to dominate the camera -- and that she was generally outc...
24: But her career was in decline by the mid-1950s. Her outrageous behavior -- fueled by a tw... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ...1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]''...
7: ...ssellini]]. She fell in love with him while performing in his film ''[[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]]''...
9: ...or which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big s...
15: ...A Woman Called Golda]], about [[Israeli]] [[prime minister]] [[Golda Meir]].
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ... who aspired to be an actress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Rep...
7: ...ndage]]''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such wa...
9: ...[[1950]]), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.
11: ...d]], earned her another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Dav...
17: ...ined close relationships throughout their lives. Michael never confirmed nor denied the claims that h... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ns (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]]s...
5: ..." Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of ad...
7: ...ting golf in the low eighties, and reaching the semi-final of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Champ...
10: ... from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mistake? other sources say her degree was in drama -...
12: ...t have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. Smith." Hepburn realized quickly that marriage was i...
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