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- Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...[16th century]], embraced as a cultural symbol in French patriotic circles since the [[19th century]],...
4: ...ponsible for a revitalization of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]'s faction during the [[Hundred ...
7: ...[[Duke of Orl顮s]] and later of [[Charles VII of France|Charles VII]]). The groups were involved in a...
11: ...876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the [[archangel]] [[Michael (archangel)|Michael...
16: ...May 7]], the remaining English forces were pulled from their [[siege]] lines on [[May 8]]. The lifting... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
1: ...:Edith Cavell - Project Gutenberg eText 14676.jpg|frame|right|'''Edith Cavell''']]
7: ...reds of soldiers from the allied forces to escape from occupied Belgium to the [[Netherlands]], in vio... - Leni Riefenstahl (8095 bytes)
1: [[Image:Leni_Riefenstahl.jpg|frame|Riefenstahl circa 1930]]
7: ... [[1935]] as ''[[Tag der Freiheit]]'' (''[[Day of Freedom]]'') and is now available on [[DVD]]. It is ...
13: ... World War II, she spent four years in a [[France|French]] [[detention camp]]. There were accusations ...
21: Apart from her controversial propaganda movies, Riefenstah...
23: ... one" of the [[Roma people]] which had been drawn from a [[concentration camp]] to appear in her film ... - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
5: ...he attended an exclusive prep school, the [[Lyc饠Fran硩s de Los Angeles]], before going on to [[Yale...
9: ...the [[French language]] that she has performed in French films. Foster won the first of her two [[Gold...
49: *''[[Freaky Friday]]'' (1976) - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6: ...aw]] from 1945 to 1946, and to [[Frank Sinatra]] from 1951 to 1957. She was regarded as one of the m...
12: ...ich left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She d...
28: * [[Reunion in France]] (1942) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
5: ... encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various topics, including sex. "We w...
7: ... teens, winning a bronze medal for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, sho...
10: ... check... Katharine Hepburn's mother got a degree from BM in history and philosophy; can this be a mis...
12: ...atonic fashion, and the two would remain lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn wa... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
21: ...arred in ''[[To Die For]]'', earning high praise from critics. Although media speculation thought tha...
23: ...wing year Kidman came back to win the same praise from critics for her portrayal of Virginia Woolf in ...
43: ...ccolades, Kidman has received Best Actress awards from the folowing critics' groups or award giving or...
50: ...th [[Ewan McGregor]] on the song "Come What May", from the film's soundtrack debuted and peaked at #27...
54: ''[[The Lady from Shanghai]]'', ''[[Emma's War]]'', ''[[Fur]]'', ... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
12: ...e was declared a ward of the state. Gladys's best friend, Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guard...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]...
23: ...yn and her unique connection with the [[camera]]. From this point on, audiences were spellbound and Mo...
36: [[Image:dmm.jpg|frame|right|Monroe and Joe DiMaggio on their wedding... - Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
6: ...include ''[[Cousins]]'' a Hollywood remake of the French film <i>Cousin, Cousine</i>, and Nimue in the...
8: ...ode of ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales from the Crypt]]''.
12: ...Purplehood.jpg|thumb|right|Isabella Rossellini in French Magazine]]
14: ...wn photographers, including [[Richard Avedon]], [[Francesco Scavullo]], [[Annie Leibovitz]], and [[Rob... - Laila Ali (3660 bytes)
5: ...n history, a fight which was also nicknamed ''Ali/Frazier IV'' in allusion to their fathers' famous fi... - Dorothy Hamill (1348 bytes)
5: The U. S. champion from 1974 through 1976, Hamill developed a new move,...
7: She was an [[Ice Capades]] headliner from 1977-84; she bought the financially-strapped Ic... - Christy Martin (2947 bytes)
5: ...rty]] fought what many consider a great fight, in front of [[Showtime]] cameras. Martin got the decisi...
13: ...es and 2 draws with 32 wins by knockout. She is a frequent visitor of the [[International Boxing Hall ... - Laura Serrano (2835 bytes)
7: ...men's championship bouts to take place within its frontiers. Mexico had also proclaimed equallity betw...
13: ...O 3), followed. The Jeffries fight resulted in Jeffries' first defeat.
19: ...et to marry her fiancee very soon. Her trainer is from [[Puerto Rico]]. - Brain (22060 bytes)
9: .... The brains of arthropods and cephalopods arise from twin parallel nerve cords that extend through t...
11: The brains of craniates develop from the anterior section of a single dorsal [[neura...
20: ...ers are [[congenital]]. [[Tay-Sachs disease]], [[Fragile X syndrome]], [[Down syndrome]], and [[Toure...
38: ...derstand the nervous system, including the brain, from a biological perspective. [[Psychology]] seeks...
41: ... which are the mass changes in electrical current from the cerebral cortex, but can only detect change... - Nose (3059 bytes)
2: ..., which catch airborne particles and prevent them from reaching the lungs. Within and behind the nose...
4: ...and/or humidifying it) and by reclaiming moisture from the air before it is exhaled (as occurs most ef...
10: ...to spread to the brain. For this reason, the area from the corners of the mouth to the bridge of the n...
12: ...ient themselves-even when blindfolded and removed from such external clues as sunlight-to within a few... - Heraldry (23465 bytes)
3: ... a shield are described from the top to the base, from dexter to sinister. Dexter ("right" in [[Latin]...
14: ...huthatswana]] and some Algerian civic heraldry of French colonial origin, specific shapes of shield ar...
28: ...The names of the tinctures mainly come to us from French. The first rule of heraldry is the rule of ti...
69: ...he blazon, but the College of Arms has moved away from this practice in recent years.
75: ...shares their shape. (It should be noticed that [[French heraldry]] takes a different approach in many... - Relic (11473 bytes)
1: The word '''relic''' comes from the Latin ''reliquiae'' ('remains') and there a...
7: ... folded papers on the left and right contain bone fragments of saint [[Benedict of Nursia]] and [[Bern...
11: ...nable. The [[abbey]] church of [[Coulombs]] in [[France]], among several others, claims to possess th...
15: ...describes the uncanny, mysterious power emanating from the supernatural and affecting the natural. The...
17: ...ue" was also a false mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting [[daemon]]s who were conceived of as... - Clavichord (3295 bytes)
3: ... Arnold Dolmetsch at the end of the 19th century. From the mid-18th century it principally flourished ...
5: In the clavichord the strings run transversely from an anchorage at the left-hand end to tuning-peg...
7: ...te 18th century, clavichords were often built ''unfretted'', with a separate pair of strings for each ...
11: ...sichord]], [[piano]], and [[organ (music)|organ]] from the period circa 1400-1800 can be played on the... - Tuba (3116 bytes)
15: ...gher (in Bb;) than the BBb; contrabass tuba. The "French tuba" corresponds to the tenor tuba, but is p...
17: Tubas generally can have from three to six valves though some exceptions exis...
23: Tubas have been used in [[jazz]] from the music's beginning. In the earliest years, b... - President of the United States (42878 bytes)
5: ...t was sometimes referred to as "the leader of the free world," a phrase that is still invoked today, m...
14: ...ciety. Prominent public officials that are barred from the presidency because they were not born U.S. ...
25: ... concerned with winning [[swing state]]s, through frequent visits and [[mass media]] advertising drive...
29: ...titution of the United States." Only presidents [[Franklin Pierce]] and [[Herbert Hoover]] have chosen...
38: ... the office due to death, resignation, or removal from office (by [[impeachment]] and conviction). Th...
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