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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
10: ...air, John A. M.]], (1864-1938), U.S. Congressman from Indiana
20: *[[Robert Adam|Adam, Robert]], (1728-1792), architect
25: *[[Karol Adamiecki|Adamiecki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
37: ...s, Andrew]], (1736-1797), U.S. poloitical leader from Connecticut
41: ... General and president of the [[Union Pacific Railroad]] - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
5: {{British Royal Family}}
9: ...is the longest serving current Head of State in Europe, The Americas, and [[Australasia|Australasia]],...
11: ... mother of the [[heir-apparent]] to the British throne, [[Charles, Prince of Wales]].
17: ... to the British throne|line of succession to the crown]], behind her father and her uncle, HRH [[Edwar...
20: ...rchbishop of Canterbury]] and has always been a strong believer in the [[Church of England]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
1: ...) was a socialite politician and a member of the prominent [[Astor family]].
4: ... States]], the third of the five daughters of railroad tycoon [[Chiswell Dabney Langhorne]] (1843-1919...
6: She divorced her first husband, [[Robert Gould Shaw 2nd]], then moved to England where...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ...
17: # [[Robert Gould Shaw III]] (1898-1970) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...if|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...oting the [[New Deal]] and visited troops at the frontlines during [[World War II]]. She was a [[First...
5: ...he World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
9: ...ns outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...om the Johannes branch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch. - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...ty|Republican]] [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[Maine]], and one of the most successful politi...
5: ...he War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving c...
7: ...he U.S. Senate in 1948. She served in the Senate from [[1949]] to [[January 3]], [[1973]]. She was de...
9: ...e received the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] from President [[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] in...
11: ...from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of the ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...number of years in the South of France where she wrote her [[autobiography]], [[Living my Life]], and ...
6: ...ker. It was in that workplace that Goldman was introduced to revolutionary ideas; she obtained a copy ...
9: ...y she became a [[revolution]]ary. Following the uproar over the hanging, Goldman left her marriage and...
18: ...] advocated by anarchist communists like [[Peter Kropotkin]].) She was charged with "inciting a riot" ...
21: ...me of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinement for several weeks, the... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... opening the way to universal access to birth control. She was also a fervent believer in [[eugenics]]...
5: ...fore dying of [[tuberculosis]]. After graduating from [[Claverack College]] in [[Hudson, New York|Huds...
9: ...riodical ''The Birth Control Review and Birth Control News''. She also contributed articles on health ...
11: ...an-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic information about such topics as [[men...
13: ... of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was legalized in many ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...stantial verse pieces including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and me...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: ..., Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from the mid [[1920s]] until [[1952]]. - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...nd a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
7: ...he intellectual circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation ...
9: ...ar success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is hailed as one of...
11: ...arious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]],...
13: ... of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imagina... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...ently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of...
9: ... [[United States|U.S.]], she would have suffered from the [[racism|racial]] prejudices common to the e...
13: ...was awarded the [[Croix de Guerre]] for her underground activity.
15: ... personal life similarly suffered, and she went through six marriages, some legal, some not.
17: ...other expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...s noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat sin...
6: ...'s Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She recorded several hit songs with them, in...
10: ...ice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s she was now called by other singers) toured [[Europe]] and North America, classically opening their ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...sh; [[July 17]], [[1959]]), also called '''[[Jazz royalty|Lady Day]]''' is generally considered one of...
7: ...n early age and, allegedly, began working as a [[prostitute]] with her mother. This preceded her move ...
9: ...se]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or government worker ...
14: ...Around [[1932]] she was "discovered" by [[record producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette'...
16: ...eafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ... A first marriage, at eighteen, to businessman Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[Novembe...
9: ...f the Polish courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-ta...
11: ....) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
13: ... organization called the "[[Musketeers]]." This group had been formed in [[October]] [[1939]] by engi... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ....C.]], [[Order of the British Empire|M.B.E.]], [[Croix de Guerre|CdG]] ([[June 26]], [[1921]] –...
7: ...her reports to SOE headquarters on the factories producing war materials for the Germans were extremel...
9: ...as forced into hard labour and suffered terribly from malnutrition and exhaustion.
11: ...[[Denise Bloch]], [[Cecily Lefort]], and [[Lilian Rolfe]].
13: ...of France, Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in t... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...nd because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Sy...
6: ... early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her father to purchase a used [[16mm]] [[Bolex]]...
10: ...ce. The accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death.
12: Deren passed away in 1961, at the age of 44, from a [[brain hemorrhage]]. Some have speculated th... - 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: ... with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
5: ...s later, she witnessed , Warner, a friend of her brother's get shot, severing the spinal cord, due to ...
7: ...wood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was des...
9: ... philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] i... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[De...
4: ...John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[1907]]-[[1920]]).
6: ... won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...ugh as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we t...
12: ...hat she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...ter]] in Stockholm and had a small role in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a doze...
7: ...an's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...nate between performances in [[American]] and [[European]] films. She received her third Academy Award...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
49: * [[Stromboli (movie)|Stromboli]] (1950) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...y because she was considered insincere. So, she enrolled in [[John Murray Anderson]]'s dramatic school...
7: ...he outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Academy members.
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...ther of their careers, was a smash hit and a top-grosser that year.
13: ...ith Henreid directing Davis in the [[camp]]y dual role as a murdering [[twin]] and her sibling victim.... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...rn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1975]] for her lead role in ''[[Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)|Love Amo...
5: ...iscussed, and her mother campaigned for birth control and equal rights for women. The Hepburns demand...
7: ...teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shoo...
8: <!-- expand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on He...
10: ...was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Host...
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