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- Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...ecade producing largely jazz inflected music. The first such album, ''[[The Hissing of Summer Lawns]]'...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,...
25: ...tral accompaniments, stating that it would be her final album. If so, ''Travelogue'' is an excellent r... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...u Oughta Know", led Morissette to be labeled the "first lady of rage", though the album itself contain...
14: In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
26: :''And your fake identification''
36: ...t double [[RIAA certification|platinum]], and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the C...
42: ...f [[Ottawa]] to [[Toronto]]. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy o... - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
5: Initially hired as a dancer, she landed her first job with the Moses Stokes company, a show that...
7: ... Her recorded accompaniments included some of the finest musicians around, most notably [[Louis Armst...
9: ...n [[W. C. Handy]]'s "[[St. Louis Blues]]." In the film, she sings the title song accompanied by member...
11: ...ord four sides for the Okeh label. These were her final recordings and they are of particular interest...
21: ...to Clarksdale's black hospital, which has been confirmed, but he also maintained that she had died en ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
1: ...ark in its simplicity, the cover of Patti Smith's first album, ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', was a ph...
4: ...h Smith contributed, including "Career of Evil", "Fire of Unknown Origin", "The Revenge of Vera Gemini...
6: ...lover [[Robert Mapplethorpe]] the band recorded a first single in [[1974]]. The A side of "Piss Factor...
8: [[1975]] saw the release of their first album ''[[Horses (album)|Horses]]'', produced ...
17: ...[[R.E.M. (band)|R.E.M.]]'s ''New Adventures in Hi-Fi.'' She released ''Peace and Noise'' (with the sin... - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
4: ...iversity of Arkansas]]. His daughter showed an affinity for music at an early age, and was playing gu...
6: ...to [[Jackson, Mississippi]] in 1978 to record her first album, for [[Smithsonian]]/[[Folkways Records]...
16: ...I Long for Your Kiss" from the [[Robert Redford]] film ''[[The Horse Whisperer]]'', the album received...
31: *''Live @ The Fillmore'' - 2005 - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
9: ...d get together and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...gs written by Crow and her friends, including the first single, "Leaving Las Vegas". The album was slo...
15: ...ted for a Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically For a Motion Picture or Television.
17: ...he Neighborhood", "Anything But Down" and "The Difficult Kind". "There Goes the Neighborhood" won a Gr...
19: ...made her acting debut (barring a [[cameo]] in the film "54") as ill-fated drifter Laurie Bloom in the ... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
7: ...ioles]]. This song won the contest and became her first single, released as a 7" pressed for family an...
10: ...so recorded a song called "Distant Storm" for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is ...
23: ..., experimental, and substantially longer than the first two albums, it garnered mixed reviews. The err...
27: ...ternal to [[Atlantic Records]], called Igloo. Her first signing, which she co-produced, was the band "...
30: ...ed '98" tour. Another tour followed in 1999, the "Five and a Half Weeks" tour with [[Alanis Morissette... - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...re is some disagreement over how Bonnie and Clyde first met, but the most prevalent story is that it w...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Kuan Yin (8111 bytes)
10: ...pan]] by way of [[Korea]] soon after Buddhism was first introduced into the country from the mid-7th c...
12: ...Because this bodhisattva is considered the personification of compassion and kindness, a mother-goddes...
32: ...idth="150" | [[Simplified Chinese character|Simplified Chinese]]
68: In China, it is said that fishermen used to pray to her to ensure safe voyages...
70: ...d to burn down the temple. Kuan Yin put out the [[fire]] with her bare hands and suffered no burns. No... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...] and [[World War II|Second]] World Wars and an official [[Saint]] to [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Ca...
10: ...ge]]'s [[1879]] portrayal of Joan of Arc when she first heard her call; [[Michael (archangel)|Saint Mi...
12: ...ks by theologians at [[Poitiers]] before granting final acceptance. She was then brought to a success...
14: ...esus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the morale of t...
16: ...April 29]], [[1429]]. After several English fortifications were taken from [[May 4]]–[[May 7]],... - Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
9: ...hool's literary society, she could not take the office in the [[anti-semitism|anti-Semitic]] atmospher...
17: ... a new Judge Advocate. Hannah was executed by a [[firing squad]] before the judges had even found her ...
21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court officially exonerated her. Her kin in Israel were info...
28: ...s sang it and this song ends some versions of the film ''[[Schindler's List]]'': - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ... they let her sign with [[Warner Brothers]]. Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played Go...
9: ...'[[Dangerous]]'' ([[1936]]) and ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]'' ([[1938]]), and was able to name h...
11: ...r another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawfor...
13: Sensing renewed [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Ja...
15: ... became the first woman to receive the [[American Film Institute]]'s Lifetime Achievement Award, and i... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
1: ...Farrow on the cover of ''[[Glamour]]'', [[1968 in film|1968]]]]
2: ...een known as '''Mia'''. She is the daughter of [[film director|director]] [[John Farrow]] and his wif...
5: ...a]] on [[July 19]] [[1966]]. While working on the film ''[[Rosemary's Baby]]'' with director [[Roman P...
9: ... tainted for a time afterward, having somewhat confirmed Farrow's accusations by his open relationship...
16: * Farrow made her film debut in a [[1947]] short subject with her famo... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...0-year acting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress...
7: ...sh; she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now...
12: ...ed in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
19: ...ly that she was almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small ...
21: ...s eventually re-hired when the director could not find anyone to replace her. After another summer of... - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
6: ...ugustin Daly]]'s stock company where she made her first appearance on the theatrical stage. An immedia...
8: ...n, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the first screen kiss in cinematic history.
12: ...performers. In 1914, she made her second [[silent film]] appearance, this time in the feature-length a... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
10: ..., and four film roles, including ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' and ''[[Bush Christmas]]''. D...
19: ...hut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final [[film]], when she co-starred with her husband as a ma...
23: ...s (2001 film)|The Others]]''. While in Australia filming ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, ...
24: ...e same year she took a hand at production for the film ''[[In the Cut]]''.
26: ...prestigious [[Golden Lion Award]] at the [[Venice Film Festival]]. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
4: ...ld eventually become the most celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to sa...
6: ...'s mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker, worked as a film-cutter. However in later years, more and more h...
12: ...hbor's son, James Dougherty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the ...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
18: While her first husband James Dougherty was at war, the young ... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: ...est known for her starring roles in the [[musical film]]s ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' ([[1964]]) and ''[[The ...
9: When she lost the starring role in the film of ''My Fair Lady'' to [[Audrey Hepburn]], she ...
11: ...several starring roles in musical and non-musical films - including some directed by her second husban...
13: ...ts sequel, both of which proved to be major box office hits. She has also starred in two made-for-tel...
17: ...how my boobies" in a scene in the film-within-the-film. For this last performance, late night king [[J... - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: '''Billie Jean King''' ([[n饝] Moffit) is a professional [[tennis]] player. Born on [[...
5: ...award. She is also credited with being one of the first female athletes to speak out against [[sexual ...
9: ... in New York and Seattle. Her brother, [[Randy Moffitt]], was a pitcher for the [[San Francisco Giants...
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