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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
78: ...son|Adamson, Amandus]], (1855-1929), Estonian sculptor - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
22: ===Heiress Presumptive===
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
40: ...of Wales|HRH Prince Henry of Wales]] (born [[15 September]], [[1984]]) (known universally as 'Harry')
42: ...ivorced ([[28 April]] [[1992]]) [[Mark Phillips|Captain Mark Phillips]] (born [[1948]]); married ([[12...
58: ...the [[Imperial State Crown]] and holding the [[Sceptre with the Cross]] and the [[Sovereign's Orb|Orb]... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
27: Mrs. Roosevelt also accepted large amounts of money from her activities in a...
35: ... mankind," and the Declaration was unanimously adopted by the [[General Assembly]] later that night. - 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: ...efeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Maine voters rejecte... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...r [[anarchist]] [[writing]]s and [[speech]]es. Adopted by [[Second-wave feminism|Second-wave feminists...
13: ...States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made her ...
21: ...sident several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchists wi...
29: ...dman were both involved in setting up [[No Conscription leagues]] and organising rallies against [[Wor...
35: ...|strike]]rs, Goldman began rejecting violence except in [[self-defense]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|Americ...
7: ...lawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
35: ...r than the kernel of an almond. In all fish and reptiles where there is no great brain development, th...
41: ...rming mental pictures, or thinking obscene or voluptuous pictures. This form is considered especially ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinis... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...anal misenscene of the greater part (with the exception of "Orlando" and "Between the Acts") of her no...
22: ...portrayal of Woolf in the movie. The film was adapted from [[Michael Cunningham]]'s Pulitzer Prize-wi...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
11: ...d became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors.
13: ... this allowed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resist...
17: ...r career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartment...
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]]
20: ...ass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, Ray Brown, Jr. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
9: ...he Moon'', ISBN 0306811367). Clarence Holiday accepted paternity, but was hardly a responsible father....
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
36: ...s in prison. Her cabaret card was revoked; this kept her from working in New York City clubs for the l... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olympics|Olympic]] [[skier]],...
11: ...win her own and Kowerski's release by feigning symptoms of pulmonary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hu...
13: ...eir arrival at [[SOE]] offices in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]], it came as a shock to them that they were unde...
24: ...h, took umbrage at their shabby treatment and abruptly bowed out of his own remarkable career as a Bri... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
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.
6: ...can avant-garde film. It was in 1943 that she adopted the name Maya Deren.
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...
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...
18: ...ch had a hectic performing schedule which often kept them apart.
24: ... shades ranging from white to medium gray) were kept on set to 'paint out' innappropriate shadows and ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
24: ...us behavior -- fueled by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- contin... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
13: ...ated in Sweden, her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
17: ...really a loving mother and grandmother. Davis adopted two other children with Merrill, Margot, who wa...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...her 13th nomination for ''[[Adaptation (movie)|Adaptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[197...
12: ...e to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. Smith." Hepburn...
30: ...tead of glamorous clothing fit for a starlet, prompting RKO executives to confiscate her overalls when...
32: ...hat same year, Hepburn played Jo in the screen adaptation of ''[[Little Women]]'', which broke box-off...
60: ...le. Blanchett, who thanked Hepburn during her acceptance speech, carried one of Hepburn's silk gloves ...
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