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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
5: The possible historicity of the King Arthur of legend has...
7: Some members of this school, most notably Geoffrey Ashe and Leon Fleuriot, have ar...
9: ...s]], a historical Roman of the [[2nd century]], whose military exploits in Britain may have been remem...
11: ...Lir]] into [[Leir of Britain | King Lear]]) or a possibly fictive person like [[Beowulf (character)|Be...
13: ...her Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battling the Saxo... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...men's Auxiliary Army Corps]]. In [[1945]], while posted to a [[cryptography]] staff in [[Italy]], she ...
7: ...' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
13: ...sts as being unacceptable, seemingly all except those whom [[psychology|psychologist]] [[Abraham Maslo...
18: ...n a remote [[Texas]] ranch, later identified as those of O'Hair and her family.
21: ...of her death the word ''atheist'' had become so closely associated with her name and personal views (e... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
18: ...vered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|Biograph]], worked for $...
29: ... alternatives, they settle on ''[[Rosita (movie)|Rosita]]'', in a performance that was praised by crit...
30: ...theatres this year, in Chicago and Detroit. The Los Angeles theatre is now known as the [[University ...
31: ...ning $1.4 million. Her performance earned her an Oscar.
32: ...tars in ''[[Secrets (movie)|Secrets]]'', a money-losing film which was to be her last. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
6: ...Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...elopment of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and h...
7: ... [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[Californi...
17: ...ance and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored by the French gove...
19: ...] and [[Georges Braque]]. She coined the term "[[Lost Generation]]" for some of these expatriate Ameri... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
14: ...amous British pilot [[Jim Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during ...
20: ... water, a rescue attempt failed and her body was lost. - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...y really began in the 1960s. Tsvetaeva's poetry arose from her own deeply convoluted personality, her ...
8: ...fessor of [[art history]] at the [[University of Moscow]], who was later to found the Alexander III Mu...
10: ...a's children, and Tsvetaeva's father maintained close contact with Varvara's family. Maria favoured An...
12: ... [[1902]] Tsvetaeva's mother contracted [[tuberculosis]]. Because it was believed that a change in cli... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
9: ...ists of the twentieth century and one of the foremost [[Modernists]], though she disdained some artist...
11: ...emotional motives of characters, and the various possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. ...
13: ...maginative and symbolic narrative encompassing almost entire English history.
15: ...best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I ... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: [[Image:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: '''Rosalind Elsie Franklin''' ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [...
5: Rosalind Franklin was born in [[London]] in the [[Uni...
8: ...ructure of coal and charcoal and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her wo...
9: ...s. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but before leaving Paris, she con... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: ... to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.
14: ...mentation of [[standards]] testing of computers, most significantly for [[programming languages]], par...
18: ...nsultant to [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. H...
38: ...nearly a thousand feet long, representing a [[microsecond]]. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: Argerich was born in [[Buenos Aires]], and initially studied with her mother wh...
7: ... works. Her technique is considered amongst the most formidable of her time, inviting comparison with...
9: ...ntury classical music|20th century]] works by composers such as [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]], [[Olivier Mes...
17: ...ev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]: Ma Mere L'Oye'' ([[Grammy Awards of 20... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
1: [[Image:JosephineBakerBurlesque.JPG|thumb|Josephine Baker in a [[burlesque]] outfit]]
3: ...[1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] d...
9: ... The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ever saw." In addition ...
17: ...he was bailed out and given an apartment by her close friend, [[Grace Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Mona...
19: ...was the star of a retrospective show in Paris, ''Jos鰨ine'', celebrating her fifty years in the theat... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...hnique with great dramatic gifts, making her the most famous singing actress of the era. An extremely ...
5: ...e [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Rusticana|Sant...
7: ..., and the [[Colheater|Teatro Col in [[Buenos Aires]]. By the mid 1950s, strain on her voice st...
9: ...tefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
13: ... lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Callas spent her last ... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...'''[[Jazz Royalty|Lady]] Ella''', was one of the most important [[jazz]] [[singer]]s, and the winner o...
10: ...es]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calypso music|calypso]], and [[Christmas]...
12: ...llington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] year...
14: ...trumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson]], [[Count Basie]] ("On the Sunny Sid...
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move t...
9: ...consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker (See Donald Clarke, ''B...
24: ...liday was a dabbler in recreational drug use for most of her life, smoking [[marijuana]], in some acco...
26: ...as [[Janis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her ...
28: ...ouis McKay, a [[mafia]] "enforcer". McKay, like most of the men in her life, was abusive, but did try... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ...) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer of [[192...
5: ...d as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that also included [[Ma ...
7: ...ts included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson...
11: ...Buggy Ride" and "Gimme a Pigfoot", are among her most popular recordings.
13: ...an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she never reg... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ... many [[cookbook]]s and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering t...
6: ...941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States ...
8: ...s Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ... came from a prominent [[Boston, Massachusetts | Boston]] family and had lived in [[Paris]] as an arti...
12: == Post-war France == - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...n]] [[Jew]]ish woman who became a [[Partisans (Yugoslavia)|partisan]].
9: ...e office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmosphere. She joined ''Maccabea'', a Hungarian [[Zion...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
13: ... her mission and was interned in the [[Horthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk...
17: ...more time to find a verdict, followed by another postponment, this one due to the appointment of a new... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...and [[France]]. She was the longest-serving and most capable of all SOE's women agents. (She actuall...
9: ... the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tan...
11: ...f the aunt's relation, the Hungarian Regent [[Miklos Horthy|Miklorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski m...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla...
22: ...edicted. (It is now known that [[Operation Barbarossa]] had been predicted by a number of sources, in... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
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