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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
45: ..., (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was convicted of drug dealing in the Laura Hernandez case
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor
110: *[[Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg]], (ruled 1292-1298), German emperor - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ... of the United Kingdom|King George VI]] on [[6 February]] [[1952]]. She is the longest serving current...
15: Elizabeth was born at 21 Bruton Street in [[Mayfair]], [[London]] on [[21 Apri...
20: ...]] and numerous visits to [[Canada]]. She was instructed in religion by the [[Archbishop of Canterbury...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
46: ...]] (Andrew Albert Christian Edward) (born [[19 February]] [[1960]]), married ([[23 July]] [[1986]]) an... - 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)
5: ...laration of Human Rights]]. President [[Harry S. Truman]] called her the ''First Lady of the World'', ...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
35: After World War II, she was instrumental along with [[John Peters Humphrey]] and oth...
39: ... [[1956]] presidential elections. When President Truman backed New York [[Governor]] [[W. Averell Harr...
41: ... International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift of the Roose... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ...establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resolving conflicts between states, loca... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...nessed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|Russian Revolution]]. She spent a number of years i...
6: ...cal repression]] after the [[assassination]] of [[Russian Tsar Alexander II|Alexander II]], she moved ...
24: On [[February 11]], [[1916]], she was [[arrest]]ed and impri...
29: ...ed for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her deportation hearing, [[J. Edgar Hoove...
32: ... and [[Louise Bryant]], both of whom were also in Russia at this time (during a period when it was imp... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ... support of the public and the courts and was instrumental in opening the way to universal access to b...
11: ...ded basic information about such topics as [[menstruation]], but also acknowledged the reality of sexu...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ...
19: ...es in the US. It was the apex of her fifty-year struggle.
60: ...] (first published in the ''Woman Citizen'', [[February 23]], [[1924]]) - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
1: ...na Andreevna Gorenko, one of the most significant Russian [[Acmeist poetry|Acmeist poets]].
9: ...khmatova maintained a long friendship with fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several p...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: ... as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg, Russia|St Petersburg]]), where Akhmatova lived from ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ... the lighthouse; also, one of the themes is the struggle in the creative process that beset painter Li...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
17: ...her career was on a downturn and she was near bankruptcy until she was bailed out and given an apartme...
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]]
14: ..."instrumentalist of voice". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Osc... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
26: ...ccess was marred by this growing dependence on [[drugs]], [[alcohol]], and abusive relationships. This...
28: ...er life, was abusive, but did try to get her off drugs. They were separated at the time of her death.
30: ...u Porgy" ([[cover]]ed exactly by Simone), and the rueful blues "Fine and Mellow" are jazz classics. He...
34: ... well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...]]-and-[[subversion]] organization's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
9: ...ar Polish [[Olympics|Olympic]] [[skier]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Ta...
20: ...ly been called into question because of these instructions."
24: ...ith, took umbrage at their shabby treatment and abruptly bowed out of his own remarkable career as a B...
30: ...ent [[Cecily Lefort]], who had been captured and brutally tortured (and would later be executed) by th... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...Guerre|CdG]] ([[June 26]], [[1921]] – [[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret ...
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic...
11: ...zabo was executed by the Germans on or about [[February 5]], [[1945]] and her body disposed of in the ... - 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...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i...
23: ...ce by [[Chao-li Chi]], Chinese flute and Haitian drums musical collage by Maya Deren - 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: ...as drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed (He sustained a knee injury and performed in ...
62: ...n the course of which the [[sheriff]] and his two Rubenesque daughters are tied up with a handy piece ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
10: ... actress, she was famous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By ...
16: ...est for [[Gone with the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was to...
22: ...edy Hour in 1957 as "The Neighbor Next Door" -- drunk, according to [[Lucille Ball]] -- is a cult fav... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
42: * [[Saratoga Trunk]] (1945) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: '''Ruth Elizabeth Davis''' ([[April 5]], [[1908]] &ndas...
7: ...ge 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]]'' ...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...'[[Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys an...
26: In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,5...
77: ...stmas]]'', which was based on a short story by [[Truman Capote]].
129: ===1940s===
130: * ''[[The Philadelphia Story]]'' ([[1940]])—[[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Ac...
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