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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
37: ...rew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
49: ...ams, Gerry]], (born 1948), Irish politician & [[Sinn Fé©®]] leader
69: ...hitect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
85: *[[Cannonball Adderley|Adderley, Cannonball]], (1928-1975), saxophonist - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann, has two-->; she has reigned in these positions s...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
42: ...s Royal|HRH The Princess Anne, Princess Royal]] (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise) (born [[15 August]] [[19...
80: ... Elizabeth II|Golden Jubilee]], marking the 50th anniversary of her accession to the Throne. The year ...
87: ...tional travel. The subsequent, perhaps pointed, announcements that they would be visiting Canada, Mal... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...l Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919) and his wife, [[Anne Witcher Keene]]. Her sister [[Irene Langhorne]] ...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
3: '''Anna Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] &n...
9: ...oosevelt]]. Following her parents deaths, young Anna Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother, ...
11: ...osevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacob...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
16: ...earns Goodwin]], who wrote a [[Pulitzer Prize]] winning biography of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, d... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
11: ...t did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the end for McCarthy. He had successfully i... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
6: ...no), [[Lithuania]], where her family ran a small inn. In the period of [[political repression]] after ...
21: ...eleased due to the complete lack of evidence to connect her and the others with Czolgosz's actions. G...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic...
45: * <blockquote>Methods and means cannot be separated from the ultimate aim...No [[revol... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
9: ...illiam Sanger. In 1916, Sanger opened a family planning and birth control clinic in the Brownsville ne...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
15: ...time, the largest private international family planning organization.
19: ...y a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Connecticut]] decision, which legalized birth control ...
38: ...ighted by this pernicious habit, always begun so innocently, for even after they have ceased the habit... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...- [[March 5]], [[1966]]) was the [[pen name]] of Anna Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant R...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
18: ...ttp://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Anna Akhmatova ] Bio and Poetry - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: Woolf is considered one of the greatest innovators in the English language. In her works she ...
13: ..., devised to disclose workings of protagonists's inner minds- but, as far as the revealed psychic cont...
22: ...ed from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-winning [[1998]] novel of the same name. ''The Hours'...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
13: ...l story, [[Hermann G?g]] himself invited her to dinner one evening, already suspecting her of involvem...
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]]
2: ...he most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a th...
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer, she also ...
12: ... Berlin]], [[Cole Porter]], [[Jerome Kern]], [[Johnny Mercer]] (the only songbook devoted soley to a l...
14: ...as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Side of the Street"), [[Joe Pass]] ("Speak love"... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
14: ...ammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mo...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
11: ...xfiltrating Polish and other Allied military personnel and collecting [[intelligence]]. Krystyna show...
42: ...ellip;] were delayed in the normal bureaucratic manner. - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...', based on the book of the same name by [[R.J. Minney]]. Her spymaster during her time in the [[Speci...
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French officer. Shortly after the birt... - 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: ...nationale]] for 16mm [[experimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - 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...
4: ...[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
24: ... to medium gray) were kept on set to 'paint out' innappropriate shadows and disguise lighting flaws. - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
16: ...t for [[Gone with the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was too ... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
1: ...August 29]], [[1982]]) was an [[Academy Award]]-winning [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[Actor|actress]].
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936)
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
58: * [[The Inn of the Sixth Happiness]] (1958) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ... as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. ...
5: ...ress. Davis was denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was co...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
27: ... to songwriters [[Donna Weiss]] and [[Jackie DeShannon]], and singer [[Kim Carnes]] to ask them how th...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...helped to found the organization that became [[Planned Parenthood]]. Hepburn's father was a staunch p...
7: ...ow eighties, and reaching the semi-final of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Championship. She woul...
12: A banner year for Hepburn, 1928 also marked her nuptuals...
30: ... press attention, would wear overalls and ratty tennis shoes instead of glamorous clothing fit for a s...
48: ...''. Behind the scenes the pair fell in love, beginning what would be one of Hollywood's most famous r...
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