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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
5: ...tazo]], (1890-1947), Lieutenant general and Japanese commander in [[New Guinea]]
6: *[[Adachi Kagemori]], (died 1248), Japanese warrior
7: *[[Adachi Morinaga]], (1135-1200), Japanese warrior
17: ...s Adam|Adam, Adolphe-Charles]], (1803-1856), composer
24: ...[[Bojan Adamic|Adamic, Bojan]], (born 1912), composer and conductor. - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...en Elizabeth II''' (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary [[House of Windsor|Windsor]]), styled '''''HM The Queen''...
9: ...tralasia|Australasia]], and is the second-longest-serving current head of state in the world, after Ki...
11: ...ries of which she is Head of State. Her reign has seen ten different [[Prime Minister of the United Ki...
15: ...ter her mother, while her two middle names are those of her paternal great-grandmother [[Alexandra of ...
20: ...t [[French language|French]], as she has shown on several occasions, most recently during her [[2004]]... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...ber in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do so.
10: ...he Week"'' for spreading lies about the "Cliveden Set."
12: ...ied soldiers in Italy were so incensed, they composed a sarcastic song to the tune of the haunting [[M...
19: # [[Nancy Phyllis Louise Astor]] (1909-1975) - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...d States]] [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]], the longest serving [[First Lady of the United States]] from [[1...
5: ...ica|United Nations Association]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and app...
9: ...outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...yde Park, New York|Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johanne... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
1: [[image:MargaretChaseSmith.jpg|right|Margaret Chase Smith]]
3: ...ves| U.S. House]] and the [[United States Senate| Senate]]. She was the first woman to have her name p...
5: ...d by the War Department in rapidly establishing bases across the nation, she was instrumental in resol...
7: ... of Maine. (Hathaway only served one term in the Senate; he was defeated in 1978 by Republican [[Will...
11: ... the first (and as yet only) woman chair of the [[Senate Republican Conference]], [[1967]]-[[1972]]. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...il War]] in [[1936]] as the English language representative in [[London]] of the [[Federacinarquis...
6: ...y]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the seeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent at...
9: ... live with their sister Lena. Goldman worked for several years in a textile factory, and in 1887 marr...
13: ...vement in the United States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry C...
18: ... to this imprisonment. While serving the one year sentence, she developed a keen interest in nursing. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...s Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United States|Amer...
5: ...following year, followed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
7: ...aw of 1873]] which outlawed as [[obscene]] the dissemination of contraceptive information and devices.
9: ...n by mail. Sanger fled to [[Europe]] to escape prosecution. However, the following year, she returned ...
11: ... Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse for "creating a [[public nuisance]]." - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
3: ...s including "Poem Without a Hero". Her work addresses themes including time and memory, the fate of cr...
5: ...d does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated in [[1905]].
9: ...fellow Russian poetess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence ...
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
13: ... a museum devoted to Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]]... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... her sister [[Vanessa Bell]] had been sexually abused by their half-brothers, George and [[Gerald Duck...
9: ...ritical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. She is...
13: ...simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a highly imaginative and symbolic narrative e...
15: ...voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the gr...
20: ...of One's Own]]'' and ''[[Three Guineas]]'', discusses the largely failed role of women in the literary... - 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]] da...
7: ...e]], where she starred at the [[Folies Berg貥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a ...
9: ... films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935).
11: ... hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) and became a muse for contemporary painters and sculptors. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
4: ...rt News, Virginia]], [[United States|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her o...
6: ... to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched ...
10: ... [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer, she also encompassed [[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[boss...
12: ...lington]], a later collection devoted to one composer occured during the [[Pablo Records|Pablo]] years... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ree, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be raised largely by her mother and other relatives. A har...
9: ... responsible father. In the rare times Billie did see him, she would shake him down for money by threa...
14: ... Hammond was the first). Hammond arranged several sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-e...
16: ...around this time that Holiday had her first successes as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]...
20: ... white gardenia in her hair. She explained the sense of overpowering drama that featured in her songs,... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...monary [[tuberculosis]]. (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on t...
13: ...mdash; it is unclear by whom or for what reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were...
15: ...a and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have understood, had they known her bette... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
3: ...[[February 5]]?, [[1945]]) was a [[World War II]] secret agent.
5: ... in the film ''[[Carve Her Name with Pride]]'', based on the book of the same name by [[R.J. Minney]]....
7: ...s was the event that caused Violette to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted into France by the S...
9: ...gun. She was interrogated under [[torture]], then sent to [[Ravensbr?ncentration camp]] where she was ...
11: ...rs of the SOE were executed by the Germans: [[Denise Bloch]], [[Cecily Lefort]], and [[Lilian Rolfe]]. - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ...] she was very active in various [[socialist]] causes in the [[New York City]].
6: .... ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-garde film. It was in 1943 t...
10: ...ed in them. Her book on the subject, ''Divine Horsemen: the Living Gods of Haiti'', is often consider...
12: ...er death was the result of a [[Vodoun|voodoo]] curse. - 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: ...ron, New York]] and after her father died, was raised by her working mother and grandparents. In [[192...
5: ...er was sued once for money, then again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed t...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...on. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking caused problems right from the start. When he was draft... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... Alabama [[1931]]-[[1946]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (De...
8: During these early New York years, she became a peripheral mem...
12: ...e the camera -- and that she was generally outclassed by Dietrich, [[Carole Lombard]], et al.
14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among establ...
16: ...the Wind]] put her out of the running for good -- Selznick decided that she was too old (at 34) for Sc... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermezzo (19...
5: ...[Gaslight]]'' ([[1944]]). She received a third consecutive nomination for Best Actress with her perfor...
7: ...s children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ...known as ''H?onaten'') for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final ...
11: ...d [[Italian language|Italian]] fluently, which caused fellow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She spe... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
5: ...who sent her classmate [[Lucille Ball]] home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
11: ...r of their careers, was a smash hit and a top-grosser that year.
13: Sensing renewed [[box-office]] potential in his form...
17: ... claims that his "sister," Hyman, made in the bestselling biography. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ther Emmys and two [[Tony Award]]s during the course of her more than 70-year acting career. In [[1999...
5: ...ral family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...ooting golf in the low eighties, and reaching the semi-final of the Connecticut Young Women's Golf Cha...
12: ...; three weeks after they were married, the couple separated. They decided to carry on their marriage ...
17: ...ompany in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] who cast her in several small roles, including in a production of [[...
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