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- Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...t a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
10: ...ed her and fellow aviatrix [[Amelia Earhart]] to participate. Cochran would go on to win the event. Wit...
12: ...Before the U.S. joined [[World War II]], she was part of "Wings for Britain" that delivered American bu...
20: ... of the United States]] in [[1952]] and she would play a major role in his successful campaign. Close fr...
22: ...the first woman to be honored with a permanent display of her achievements at the [[United States Air Fo... - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
7: Germain was particularly interested in [[Joseph Louis Lagrange|Jos...
9: ...r true identity in [[1806]], when [[Napoleon Bonaparte]] was invading [[Prussia]] and Gauss's birthplac...
12: ...these obstacles and penetrating the most obscure parts of them, then without doubt she must have the no...
25: ...]]'', the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[Broadway]] play by [[David Auburn]], contains references to Germa... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
7: ... Aires]]. By the mid 1950s, strain on her voice started to become apparent; by [[1958]] it reached a po...
9: ...resident of the Met board, offered her the job of Artistic Director. She turned it down to stage a come...
11: ...nce in [[Donizetti]]'s ''[[Anna Bolena]]'', at a party given in her honor by [[Elsa Maxwell]]. In Novem...
13: ...isolation in [[Paris]], and died in 1977 from a heart attack at age 53. The funeral service was held at...
18: ...s, disliked by others, Callas was a controversial artist. Her supporters called her "La Divina" and ra... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...of tone and "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
6: ...b]]'s band, who persuaded Webb to hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in ...
10: ...y some hilarious imitations of other singers: in particular, she was able to render quite perfectly [[M...
14: ...talist of voice". Aside of her many instrumental partners and/or band leaders, such as [[Oscar Peterson...
20: ...econd husband was the famous [[double bass|bass]] player [[Ray Brown]]. Together they adopted a child, R... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
8: ...they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
10: ...y she never made it to number one in the UK pop charts - the best result being a number four with her v...
14: ... to take a greater role in producing her work. A partnership with Quincy Jones led to a disappointing a...
16: ...s the dance song ''[[Freeway of Love]]'', which charted in [[1985]]. Most critics dismiss her post-Atla...
53: *[[1970]] ''[[Don't Play That Song]]'' - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
7: ... [[Clarence Holiday]], a jazz guitarist who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie H...
20: ...gends as [[Lester Young]], [[Count Basie]], and [[Artie Shaw]], breaking the color barrier along the wa...
26: ...anis Joplin]] and [[Nina Simone]]. [[Diana Ross]] played her in a [[film|movie]] version of her [[autobi...
30: ...Sound of Jazz]] program is memorable for her interplay with dear friend [[Lester Young]]; both were less...
36: ... was taken to hospital suffering from liver and heart problems. She was placed under house arrest on [... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
36: ..., "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the Canadian charts. The subsequent singles "Feel Your Love", "Walka...
50: ... Angeles, Morissette lived in a small, one-room apartment. On the way home from the supermarket one aft...
66: :''And then played golf for awhile''
82: ...118 on the [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] 200 chart.
84: ...ation]] stumbled onto "You Oughta Know" and began playing it non-stop: - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
7: ...re circuit. Her biggest recorded hit was "Down Hearted Blues", a song written and previously recorded ...
11: ... These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest because the accompanying band incl...
17: ...W. H. Brandon, who attended to Bessie, wrote, in part: ''Bessie Smith was injured in an automobile acci...
21: ...er while waiting to be admitted. As we see, that part of his story was incorrect. Actually, Bessie was ...
23: ==Artistic legacy== - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
4: ...ainting, writing and performing both poetry and a play, ''Cowboy Mouth'' (a collaboration with [[Sam She...
13: ...ful, with "Frederick" only gaining minor radio airplay.
19: ..., deeply in debt from lawsuits by the Democratic Party, by raising money. She also toured with Ralph N... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
4: ...ed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: By her early 20s, Williams was playing publicly in [[Austin, Texas]] and [[Houston, T...
8: ...cks", about a broken relationship, received radio play around the country and gained fans among music in...
14: ... release, though she appeared as a guest on other artists' albums and contributed to several tribute co...
18: ...both musically and lyrically, and moved Williams farther from the country music establishment while win... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...e [[European]] [[Billboard magazine|Billboard]] charts. Classically trained, Amos’s voice and mos...
7: ...gan studying at [[Montgomery College]] and began playing at piano bars, many of them gay, chaperoned by...
10: ...all of Voodoo]], [[Sandra Bernhard]] and [[Al Stewart]]) as a backup vocalist. She also recorded a song...
12: ===''Little Earthquakes''===
13: ...ttle Earthquakes]]''. Atlantic's European counterpart, East West, worked hard to promote the record. It... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...ing the dead body of her son is a common motif in art, called a [[piet?.
27: ...ng to the [[Gospel of James]], which, though not part of the [[New Testament]], contains biographical m...
41: ...r surpasses all creatures, both in heaven and on earth"; but still in the final analysis, a created bei...
47: ...ry is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart", and that we should "wish that everyone know and...
50: ...tatement, "[http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acns/articles/39/75/acns3978a.cfm Mary: Hope and Grace in ... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
15: ...ew York]], she met her second husband, Harold Stewart McPherson, an accountant. They were married on M...
19: ... birth of her son, McPherson suffered from [[postpartum depression]] and several serious health issues....
23: ...he Bridal Call'', for which she wrote many of the articles.
37: ...g stage props, contemporary music, and [[morality play]]s (which she called "illustrations"), with elabo...
45: ...[United States Department of Commerce|Commerce Department]] for deviating from its assigned frequency. ... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
12: ...ugh my entire brain. And so it kindled my whole heart and breast like a flame, not burning but warming....
22: ...y [[oratorio]] for women's voices, with one male part - that of the [[Devil]]. It was created, like all...
24: ...that her music and moral play ''Ordo Virtutum'' ("Play of Virtues") were performed in her own convent. I...
26: ...ology of the four elements-fire, air, water, and earth-with their complementary qualities of heat, dryn...
32: ... the woman's sexual organs contract, and all the parts that are ready to open up during the time of men... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
7: ...ut was then a part of the Duchy of Bar — a part of France whose Duke was pro-Anglo-Burgundian in ...
10: ...joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
38: A set of 12 articles of accusation, which the [[Notary public|not...
40: ... asked two of the clergy, Martin Ladvenu and Isambart de la Pierre, to get a [[crucifix]] from a nearby...
43: ... was read out on [[July 7]], 1456. The religious play in her honor at Orleans was declared by the [[15t... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ... ([[1874]]-[[1940]]) ([[United States Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[Alabama]] [[1917]]-[[1940]], [...
6: ...to let her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The S...
8: ...he [[Algonquin Round Table]] and known as a hard-partying girl-about-town. She also became known for he...
10: ...]] stage, where she was to appear in over a dozen plays in the next eight years. Famous as an actress, s...
14: ...her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]]. - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: Hepburn was born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]] to Thomas Norval Hepburn, a su...
10: ... she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...Hepburn and Smith's marriage was rocky from the start — she insisted he change his name to S. Ogd...
17: Hepburn cut her acting teeth in plays staged at Bryn Mawr and later in revues staged b...
19: ... almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small stock company rol... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
12: ...ature-length adaptation of [[George V. Hobart]]'s play, ''[[Mrs. Black is Back]]''.
14: ...mmer home on secluded Club Island in the Ontario part of the [[Thousand Islands]] and at her winter hom... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ... to graduate from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].
7: ...luding [[Norma Shearer]], [[Bette Davis]], [[Jean Arthur]], [[Katharine Hepburn]], and [[Barbara Stanwy...
11: ... lung. Though she continued her career with such plays as [[Thornton Wilder]]'s ''[[Skin of Our Teeth]]... - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: ...eer Riccardo Scicolone and grew up in poverty in wartime [[Pozzuoli]] near [[Naples]].
7: ...d as "Sofia Villani" or "Sofia Lazzaro' and took part in regional beauty contests, were she won several...
11: ...hony Perkins]] (based upon the [[Eugene O'Neill]] play), ''[[Houseboat (movie)|Houseboat]]'' (a romantic...
19: ...Story]]''. ([[Rita Brown]] and [[Chiara Ferrari]] played younger versions of the actress. She made headl...
21: ... and the [[1994]] comedy ''[[Grumpier Old Men]]'' playing a femme fatale opposite [[Walter Matthau]] and...
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