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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
2: ...ht|framed|Victorian image of '''King Arthur''' in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shi...
9: ...al Roman of the [[2nd century]], whose military exploits in Britain may have been remembered for centu...
13: ... that another Roman Briton of the period, for example [[Ambrosius Aurelianus]], led the forces battlin...
19: ...f Arthur" and states "we went with Arthur in his splendid labours"; and the poem "Journey to Deganwy,"...
23: ..."Lives") of 6th-century [[saint|saints]]: for example, in the ''Life of Saint [[Illtud]]'', he is said... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
16: ...adquarters of American Atheists, leaving a note implying an absence for some time and a visit to [[San...
18: ...issing funds and murdered them. Waters eventually pled guilty to reduced charges and in January [[2001... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...r King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and became a popular child...
7: ...ecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted...
9: ...r who made a million dollar deal was [[Charlie Chaplin]]), and one of the few stars who were successfu...
11: ... became a secret message of their love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the rec...
13: ...r]]. However, Pickford's second marriage was also plagued with marital problems. Her stressful busines... - 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...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...]] [[writer]], [[poet]], [[feminism|feminist]], [[playwright]], and catalyst in the development of mod...
12: ...[Paris]] with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic.
15: ...er portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus other young painters.
17: ...ey returned to France and volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals; they were later honored b...
23: ...liberal than not, with developed individualism coupled with democratic values based in pragmatism; thu... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
4: ...by, gaining a pilot's licence at the [[London Aeroplane Club]] in late [[1929]].
8: ... on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 miles. Her aeroplane for this flight a [[De Havilland]] [[De Havill...
16: ...ales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The plane ran out of fuel and crashed in [[Bridgeport, C...
20: ...pilot with Transport Auxiliary and, on January 5, 1941, whilst flying an [[Airspeed Oxford]] to RAF Kidl... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...ed personality, her eccentricity and tightly disciplined use of language. Among her themes were female...
8: ...ry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause her to id...
10: ...and distant from his family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get ...
12: ...t at that time in Nervi, and undoubtedly these people would have had some influence on the impressiona... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
7: ...he [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie's ideals, Woolf's ...
9: ...[[1905]], initially for the ''[[Times Literary Supplement]]''. In [[1912]] she married [[Leonard Woolf...
13: ...e atmosphere closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work...
15: On March 28, [[1941]], Woolf filled her pockets with stones, and drow... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
8: ...e from the University. She passed her finals in [[1941]]. Because of the ongoing war, [[World War II]], ...
12: ...o similar research). Unfortunately, Randall had implied that Franklin alone would be working on DNA, a...
18: ... should have been working together. It has been implied by Wilkins himself that this situation may wel... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
7: In [[1949]], Hopper became an employee of the [[J. Presper Eckert|Eckert]]-[[John Ma...
14: In the 1970s, she pioneered the implementation of [[standards]] testing of computers, ...
38: ... is famous for her ''nanoseconds'' visual aid. People (such as generals and admirals) used to ask her ... - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: .... She gave her debut concert at the age of eight, playing a [[piano concerto|concerto]] by [[Wolfgang...
7: ...ver her often exaggerated dynamics and tempi, her playing is characterised by her passionate and uniqu...
9: ...olo performances. As of the [[1980s]] she has not played much solo concerts anymore, instead focusing ...
17: ...tnev]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]] (Arr. Pletnev): Cinderella Suite for Two Pianos/[[Ravel]]:... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
5: ...g the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
17: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys...
36: ...ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151636/ Moulin Rouge (1941)]'' - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...al debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Ru...
9: ...] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ... to one of her biographers, Nicholas Gage, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was ...
15: ...ung singers, this seems unlikely. A more likely explanation is Callas' overuse of [[quaaludes]]. Devet... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child,...
68: *1965 ''[[Ella at Duke's Place]]''
111: ==Samples==
112: *[[Media:How High The Moon.ogg|Download sample]] of "How High the Moon" - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie...
20: ...dy Day with the white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that feature...
26: ...anis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[auto...
28: .... She finally divorced Monroe in [[1957]] as she split with Guy. That [[March 28]], Billie married Lo...
30: ...Sound of Jazz]] program is memorable for her interplay with dear friend [[Lester Young]]; both were le... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
11: ... an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have Bessie b...
17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t...
19: ...eath without medical attention, while her friends pled with the hospital authorities to admit her. And...
25: A more recent play featuring 14 of the songs Smith made famous, ''...
27: ...scovered that Bessie's grave remained unmarked, Joplin offered to pay for a stone and ended up sharing... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
10: ... to fine cuisine. She learned to cook in order to please him and entertain their large social circle. ...
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34: ...rs during a series of [[stroke]]s in 1989. The couple did not have children. - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
7: ...gary]]. Her father, B鬡 Szenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She con...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
15: ...th other prisoners with large cut-out letters she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to k... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...e'''. She became celebrated especially for her exploits in [[Germany|German-occupied]] [[Poland]] and...
7: ...zy Giżycki]] {[[1899]]-[[1970]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ... into Poland. Arriving in [[Warsaw]], she vainly pleaded with her [[Jew]]ish mother to leave a [[Pola...
11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
5: Penny played the role of the wise-cracking brewery worker ...
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
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