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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ... of kingship in both war and peace. He is the central character in the cycle of [[legend]]s known as ...
5: ...d become [[England]], but controversy over the centre of his power and the extent and kind of power he...
17: ==Earliest traditions of Arthur==
19: ...to "Arthur the Blessed"; ''Preiddeu Annwn'' ("The Treasures of Paradise"), mentions "the valour of Art...
21: ... to Arthur is in the ''[[Historia Britonum]]'', attributed to the Welsh [[monk]] [[Nennius]], who is s... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
4: ...erian]] church. She married John Henry Roths in [[1941]], however they separated when they both enlisted...
7: ...algamated with the similar ''[[Abington School District v. Schempp]]'') reached the [[United States Su...
18: ...d [[fundamentalist]] Christians had kidnapped the trio. Many of the O'Hair assets were sold to clear u...
21: ... atheists and various efforts have been made to introduce a new term into common use. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
5: ...d in many melodramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
9: ...d film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four yea...
13: ... Her stressful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorc...
15: ...Ronald. Fairbanks, however, was the love of the actress's life. Before he died, he sent Pickford a mes...
25: ...gets about $10,000 a week. She became the first actress who was the producer of her own films. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
6: ...on]], one of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
11: * ''Portrait of an Unknown'', [[1948]] - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: '''Gertrude Stein''' ([[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27...
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
9: ...in_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
13: ... Toklas]] in 1907; Alice moved in with Leo and Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supp...
15: ...Picasso]] (who became a friend and painted her portrait), [[Henri Matisse]], [[Andre Derain]] plus oth... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ...January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...[[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot's lic...
6: ...this, she went on to qualify as the first British-trained woman ground engineer.
8: ...ence Museum in London]]. She received a [[Harmon Trophy]] in recognition of this achievement.
18: ...DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]] air race. Johnson was to divorce Mollison i... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ...meist poetry|Acmeism]] and [[Russian Symbolist poetry|symbolism]].
8: ...concert pianist, with some [[Poland|Polish]] ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to p...
10: ...ughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...l changes in school, and during the course of her travels she acquired Italian, French and German lang... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
7: ...ormed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
11: ...h language. In her works she experimented with [[stream-of-consciousness]], the underlying psychologic...
13: ... sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of life through the art, sexual ambiv...
15: ...his time. I begin to hear voices, and can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...t contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
8: ...he basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...re and earned an international reputation on the structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions aft...
14: ===Discovery of the structure of DNA===
15: ...B form of DNA. Francis Crick has commented that 'Strictly speaking, our model was not finally ''decisi... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
9: ...e with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could b...
14: ... vendors. These tests, and their official administration, were taken over in the 1980s by the Nationa...
22: ...e Murray Hopper Park]]'', located on South Joyce Street in Arlington, Virginia, is a small memorial pa...
34: ... and irreverent speaking style, as well as a rich treasury of early "war stories". - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
9: ...3 (Rachmaninoff)|Piano Concerto No. 3]] with [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tc...
19: ...t Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with orchestra)]]'''
20: ...rtha Argerich & the [[Orchestre Symphonique de Montr顬]] for ''[[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]: Piano ... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...Donald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venu...
7: ...ar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding y...
11: ... successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—Baker transformed her stage and public persona into a soph...
13: ...owed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resistance|Unde...
17: ...Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ... the most famous singing actress of the era. An extremely versatile singer, her repertoire ranged from...
5: ... recorded and performed many bel canto operas, contributing greatly to the bel canto revival of the 19...
7: ...singly unstable higher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...s a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice.
11: ...ir love-affair received much publicity. She was introduced to him in 1957, after a performance in [[Do... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ... hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She...
8: ...e new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...oice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s with the famous Ellington's hit "[[Take the 'A' train]]", of which she was one of the few to sing - ...
14: ..., [[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...r house was the first on their street to have electricity. Her mother, Sadie Fagan, was just thirteen ...
9: There is controversy regarding Holliday's paternity. This stems ...
16: ...performing regularly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
20: ...s like that". Even when she was young and singing trivial pop songs, her unique tone and emotional com...
24: ...ians and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: ...wn act around [[1913]], at [[Atlanta]]'s "81" Theatre and by [[1920]] she had gained a reputation in t...
7: ...inest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armstrong]], [[James P. Johnson]], [[Joe Smith]], [[Char...
9: ...son]]'s orchestra, the Hall Johnson Choir, and a string section--a musical environment that is radical...
13: ...nued until her death in a [[road accident]] while travelling from a concert in Memphis to Clarksdale, ...
17: ...r received by his father, John Lomax, in October, 1941. In the letter, Dr. W. H. Brandon, who attended t... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ine]] and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many [[cookbook]]s and television ...
6: ...[[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by...
8: ... Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...reign Service | U.S. Foreign Service]] and also introduced Julia to fine cuisine. She learned to cook ...
16: ...hed and repeatedly tested recipes, and Mrs. Child translated the [[French language | French]] into [[A... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
11: ...the British army. In 1944 she begun a paratrooper training in [[Egypt]] for the British [[Special Oper...
15: ...ers she placed in her window one at the time. She tried to keep their spirits up by singing.
17: ...udges had even found her guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her r...
23: ==Poetry==
59: ...he Hebrew version by Avigdor Hamieri), in another translation it's Spring instead of July: - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
7: ... she falteringly entered the worlds of work and matrimony. A first marriage, at eighteen, to business...
9: ...h courier missions was the smuggling across the Tatras of a secret, unique Polish [[anti-tank]] [[rifl...
11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
15: ...], during their flight from [[Hungary]], to charm transit visas through French-mandated [[Syria]] from...
17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: ...5]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, producer and director.
12: As Actress:
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
37: *[http://imdb.com/name/nm0001508/ IMDb entry for Penny Marshall]
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