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- King Arthur (22450 bytes)
1: ...arly texts refer to him as ''[[dux]] bellorum'' ("war leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often...
5: ...ower base was probably in either [[Wales]], [[Cornwall]], or the west of what would become [[England]]...
7: ...rtain [[Riothamus]], "King of the Brettones," who was active during the reign of the [[Roman Emperor]]...
9: ...itain may have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the historical c...
15: ...ran]], who had a son called Artuir and whose life was somewhat similar to Arthur's. - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...nowiki>Hair''' ([[April 13]] [[1919]] - [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[atheist]], found...
4: ...Murray Jr. and bore him a child (William). Murray was a married [[Roman Catholic]] and refused to divo...
7: ... schools in the [[United States]]. Public opinion was such that in [[1964]] [[Life magazine|''Life'' m...
11: ...[[Christianity]] and became [[born again]] at Gateway [[Baptist]] Church in [[Dallas, Texas]].
18: ... to withdraw the missing funds and murdered them. Waters eventually pled guilty to reduced charges and... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion picture]] [[actor|star]], known ...
5: ... through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged seven, was cast in Toronto's Princess Theatre production of...
7: ...B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that...
9: ...era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired fro...
11: ...eir love; as the couple was driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the c... - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
2: ...ed [[October 19]], [[1999]] in [[Paris, France]], was a lawyer and a [[Francophone]] writer of [[Russi...
4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...[[February 3]], [[1874]] - [[July 27]], [[1946]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[writer]], [[poet...
7: ...hree. After returning almost two years later, she was educated in [[California]], graduating from [[Ra...
13: ...nd Gertrude in 1909. During her whole life, Stein was supported by a stipend from her brother Michael'...
17: When England declared war on Germany in [[World War I]], Stein and Toklas were visiting with [[Alfre...
19: ...reat artists and writers including [[Ernest Hemingway]], [[Thornton Wilder]], [[Sherwood Anderson]] an... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: ..., [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born in [[Kingston upon Hull]].
4: ...rk in [[London]] as secretary to a solicitor. She was introduced to flying as a hobby, gaining a pilot...
8: She became well-known in [[1930]] when she was the first woman to fly from Britain to Australia...
12: ...own]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to regain this record, this time flying a ...
16: ... Rapide]] nonstop from [[Pendine Sands]], South [[Wales]], to the [[United States|USA]] in 1933. The p... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
3: ...er 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
5: ... poetry|Symbolist]] movements in Russia. Her work was not looked kindly upon by [[Stalin]] and the the...
8: ... ancestry on her mother's side. (This latter fact was to play on Marina's imagination, and to cause he...
10: ...er to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poetry was poor.
12: ...lowed to continue until June [[1904]] when Marina was despatched to school in [[Lausanne]]. Changes in... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...d [[feminist]]. Between the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society ...
7: ...ency (informed by [[G.E. Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...th critical and popular success. Much of her work was self-published through the [[Hogarth Press]]. Sh...
13: ... than to the interior monologues proper) create a wave-like atmosphere closer to the prose poem than t...
15: On March 28, [[1941]], Woolf filled her pockets with stones, and drow... - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ... ([[July 25]], [[1920]] - [[April 16]], [[1958]]) was a British [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallogr...
5: ...as Attorney General in the Palestine. Dr Franklin was educated at St Paul's Girls' School where she ex...
8: ...spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical che...
9: ...ave and refused to put his name on the papers she was writing, even though he had been equally involve...
12: ...h project had been taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went ... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...]], [[1992]]) was an early computer pioneer. She was the first [[programmer]] for the [[Mark I Calcul...
3: ...ng mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
5: ...rite a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged from the Navy, but she continued to w...
7: ...was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were released commercia...
9: ...bler]]s of the time. It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy. - Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
5: ...w weeks, and her career as a professional pianist was launched.
7: ... One of her performances in that winning campaign was a defiantly confident reading of Chopin's Etude,...
9: ...erto No. 1]]. From [[1969]] to [[1973]], Argerich was married to [[Conducting|conductor]] [[Charles Du...
14: ==Awards and Recognitions== - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ... [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and sing...
5: ...red [[vaudeville]] as a teen, gradually heading toward [[New York City]] during the [[Harlem Renaissan...
7: ...accompanied by her pet [[leopard]], Chiquita, who was adorned with a [[diamond]] collar. The leopard f...
9: ...ices common to the era. The writer [[Ernest Hemingway]] called her "the most sensational woman anyone ...
11: ...to a sophisticated cultural figure. (The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally bin... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
3: ...st-known [[opera]] [[singer]] of the post-[[World War II]] period. She combined an impeccable [[bel ca...
5: ...al debut at the [[Athens Opera]] on [[July 4]], [[1941]], as [[Tosca]], going on to sing [[Cavalleria Ru...
7: ...pparent; by [[1958]] it reached a point where she was no longer suitable for many roles. Her later [[s...
9: ...our with the tenor [[Giuseppe Di Stefano]] but it was a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely des...
11: ...ouple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The relationship... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...[[singer]]s, and the winner of thirteen [[Grammy Award]]s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she...
4: ...s|USA]] and raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ... Can't Sing It), You'll Have to Swing It", but it was her version of the [[nursery rhyme]], "[[A Tiske...
10: ...s imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[Marilyn Monroe]...
12: ...ch she was one of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ...ifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she was three, but they soon divorced, leaving her to be...
9: ...eatening to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter.
14: ... with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ([[1933]]).
16: It was around this time that Holiday had her first succ...
20: ...aying "I've lived songs like that". Even when she was young and singing trivial pop songs, her unique ... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
2: ... [[1937]]) in [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]], [[USA]] was the most popular and successful [[blues]] singer...
7: ...ation) theatre circuit. Her biggest recorded hit was "Down Hearted Blues", a song written and previou...
9: ...cal]] in which, the top white critics agreed, she was the only asset. That same year, she made her onl...
11: ...d by for an almost inaudible guest visit. Hammond was not pleased with the result, preferring to have ...
13: ...s taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she never regained consciousness ... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...ust 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[author]], ...
4: == Youth and World War II ==
6: ...s]] and, after the bombing of [[Pearl Harbor]] in 1941, joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS...
8: ... in the development of a [[shark]] repellant. She was posted to [[Kandy]], Ceylon (now [[Sri Lanka]]) ...
10: ...war]], she resided in Washington, D.C., where she was married on [[September 1]], [[1946]] to Mr. Chil... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
3: ...[[July 17]], [[1921]] - [[November 7]], [[1944]]) was a [[Hungary|Hungarian]] [[Jew]]ish woman who bec...
7: ...zenes, a journalist and playwright, died when she was six years old. She continued to live with her mo...
9: ...tholicism|Catholics]] and Jews. However, when she was elected to the school's literary society, she co...
11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
13: ...eatened to torture her mother as well. The mother was eventually released. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...onths before the [[Special Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefuln...
7: ...ek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with lavish e...
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
15: ...source of suspicion against Krystyna and Kowerski was the ease — which her accusers might have u... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
3: She was born '''Carole Penelope Masciarelli''' in [[The ...
7: Marshall was married to actor and director [[Rob Reiner]] ([[...
9: ...ce the mid-[[1980s]], including ''[[Big]]'', ''[[Awakenings]]'' and ''[[A League of Their Own]]''.
18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)
30: *''[[Awakenings]]'' (1990)
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