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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
76: ===== Adamsk - Adamso =====
77: *[[George Adamski|Adamski, George]], (1891-1965), US UFO "traveler" - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad... - 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]].
20: ...[Constitution Hall]] in Washington because of her skin color. Mrs. Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to... - 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 ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
6: ...ained a copy of [[Nikolai Chernyshevsky|Chernyshevsky]]'s ''[[What Is To Be Done]],'' which sowed the ...
18: ...d ''"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread,...
21: ...nce, briefly, several weeks before, where he had asked Goldman's advice on a course of study in anarch...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ... Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance ...
13: ...d Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the National Committ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
19: ...ing charisma of selflessness] by Alexander Zholkovsky - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...r future acts. Already a star, she performed in a skirt made only of [[banana]]s, often accompanied by...
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]]
6: ...version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
16: ...was so successful that Granz's [[Verve records]] asked them for the equally successful "Ella and Louis... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...of a wealthy assimilated Jewish banker. Krystyna Skarbek grew up in comfort until her father frittere...
9: ... a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olympics|Olympic]] [[skier]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the ...
11: ...iklos Horthy|Mikló³ ˆorthy]].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Ba...
13: ...t reason. Several versions exist as to why the Musketeers were viewed by the exile Poles and the Brit... - 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.
4: ...because of her father's sympathies for [[Leon Trotsky]], the family fled to [[Syracuse, New York|Syrac...
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... - 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...
11: ...program. The program was successful, and [[CBS]] asked her to develop it as a television program. She ...
41: ...vided ample opportunities for Ball to display her skills at clowning and [[physical comedy]]. She is r... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
18: ...her 1942 performance in [[Thornton Wilder]]'s The Skin of Our Teeth.
24: ...by a two-bottle-a-day consumption of [[bourbon whiskey|Old Grand Dad]] -- continued unabated. And beha...
103: *1942 [[The Skin of Our Teeth]] - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
21: * [[Landskamp]] (1932)
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]]'' ...
27: ...Jackie DeShannon]], and singer [[Kim Carnes]] to ask them how they knew so much about her. One of the ...
33: *Nominated ''[[Mr. Skeffington]]'' ([[1944]])
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
7: ...figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eighties, and...
19: ...denly fired the play's original leading lady and asked Hepburn to assume the role. Terror-stricken at...
23: ...impressed by this display of physicality that he asked her to do a screen test for the studio's next v...
38: ...don't remember." Following up, another reporter asked if they had any children; Hepburn's answer: "T...
129: ===1940s===
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