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- Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
1: ...ge:Tallulah.jpg|thumb|Tallulah Bankhead, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1934]]
2: '''Tallulah Brockman Bankhead''' ([[January 31]], [[1902]] - [[December 12]],...
4: ...46]]), and granddaughter of Senator [[John H. Bankhead]] ([[1842]]-[[1920]]) (Democrat from Alabama [[...
6: ...parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ... member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid." - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...Intermezzo (1939 movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illust...
5: ... St. Mary's]]'' ([[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (mov...
7: ..." One of Rossellini's and Bergman's children is the model and actress [[Isabella Rossellini]].
9: ... on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
11: ...e speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ... article is about '''Bette Davis''' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
5: ...sent her classmate [[Lucille Ball]] home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.
7: ...''tour de force'', and such was the outrage that she received many write-in votes from disgruntled Aca...
9: ... which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.
11: ...wford ever worked together onscreen in either of their careers, was a smash hit and a top-grosser that... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
1: [[Image:KH_40s-10.jpg|frame|right|Katharine Hepburn]]
2: ..., the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
4: ==Hepburn's early years==
5: ...edly liberal family, who she credited with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...ms such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]]. - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...y, Ontario]], [[Canada]] ? died [[October 22]], [[1938]] in [[New York City]], [[United States]], was an...
4: ...Metropolitan Theater then at the [[Tony Pastor]] Theatre, a popular New York City music hall.
6: ...but at Toole's Theatre in August of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, pas...
8: ...tion, [[The Kiss (film, 1896)|The Kiss]], became the first screen kiss in cinematic history.
10: ...arried her manager, Kurt Eisfeldt, the same year she began making records for [[RCA Victor|Berliner/Vi... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ... O'Sullivan]]. She then went on to graduate from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].
5: ...married in [[1932]] to Herbert Leigh Holman, and they had a daughter, Suzanne, in [[1933]].
7: ...s close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
9: ...to actress [[Jill Esmond]] who was pregnant when the affair began).
11: ...ard]] for her portrayal the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''. - Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
1: ...e finisher [[Shirley Strickland]] is depicted on the far left.]]
3: ...wned upon by many. It earned her the nickname ''"The Flying Housewife"''.
5: ...riod, in events as diverse as the [[long jump]], the [[high jump]], sprint and [[hurdling]] events.
7: ...she was voted "Female Athlete of the Century" by the [[International Association of Athletics Federati...
11: ...nd she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in athletics. - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
1: '''Sonja Henie''' ([[April 8]], [[1912]]-[[October 12]], [[19...
3: [[Image:SonjaHenie.jpg|thumb|Sonja Henie]]
4: ...over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for directions.
6: ...c Games|Olympic]] gold medal the following year. She also won six consecutive European championships.
8: ...grapher|choreography]]. She was also an accomplished tennis player. - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]]'' of tennis, was the first female tennis player to become an internati...
3: ...t stars, named ''La Divine'' (the divine one) by the French press.
8: ...n the court, to which his daughter had to direct the ball.
10: ...t. The outbreak of [[World War I]] at the end of the year stopped most national and international tenn...
14: ...nning in 10–8, 4–6, 9–7 to take her first Grand Slam victory. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...BabeDidrikson.png|framed|right|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ... her nickname "Babe" (after [[Babe Ruth]]) after she hit five [[home run]]s in a single [[baseball]] g...
5: ...ion. After the Games, Shiley and Didrikson split their medals.
9: ...[U.S. Women's Open (golf)|U.S. Women's Open]] for her fourth and fifth [[women's majors|major champion...
11: ...ts toll and Zaharias died in 1956 while still in the top rank of female American golfers. - Locomotive (16705 bytes)
3: ...y have payload space or are rarely detached from their trains, are known as power cars.
5: ...rol cab at the opposite end of the train in the other.
8: ...omotive, rather than in self-propelled vehicles. These include:
11: ...m passengers. This was particularly the case for the '''steam locomotive''', but still has some releva...
12: ...of the motive power unit does not require taking the whole train out of service. - Bassoon (11661 bytes)
2: ...arly the [[dulcian]], the bassoon is a part of orchestral, concert band, and chamber music literature....
6: ...th its bell flared slightly at the end. However, there were only six finger-holes and two keys.
8: ...an'' (1690) referring to the wooden double reed, the word began to be used to refer to this instrument...
10: ...ars date to the end of the 17th century, depicts the bassoon much as it appears in its current form, a...
14: ...r=red>(2)</font>, a crooked metal tube which attaches wing joint to reed <font color=red>(1)</font> ({... - Andrew Jackson (23546 bytes)
13: | place of death= [[The Hermitage]], [[Nashville]], [[Tennessee]]
14: | wife= [[Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson]]
18: ...nating the years between the [[War of 1812]] and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]].
22: ...that they were too inclined to favor and emulate their former colonial masters. Jackson admired [[Napo...
24: ...le world of frontier law. He became a colonel in the state militia, which began his military career. - Antarctica (14761 bytes)
4: ...e Earth's [[North Pole]] on the opposite side of the planet.
6: ...n continent that bears a possible resemblance to the Antarctic coast. (See also [[History of Antarctic...
8: ...humidity]] of any continent on Earth, as well as the lowest average temperature.
10: It has been assigned the [[Internet]] [[Top-level domain|ccTLD]] '''[[.aq]...
15: ... Nearly all of Antarctica is covered by an [[ice sheet]] that is, on average, 2.5 kilometers thick. - Germany (46412 bytes)
1: ...[Luxembourg]], and to the east by [[Poland]] and the [[Czech Republic]].
13: ...National [[motto]]: ''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit''<br>([[German language|German]]: Unity and Jus...
15: ...en]]<br>3rd stanza (''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit'')
51: ...cognised and protected as minority languages per the [[European Charter for Regional or Minority Langu...
52: <sup>2</sup> Prior to [[1999]]: [[Deutsche Mark]].</small> - Slovakia (19892 bytes)
7: | align=center width=140px rowspan=2 height=140px | [[Image:Slovakia Coat of Arms.png|80p...
43: | '''[[National anthem]]'''
52: ... and has a population of more than five million. The capital is [[Bratislava]].
56: ...relation between those two name forms is exactly the same as with for example [[Germany]] vs. Federal ...
58: ...the term Czech Republic, but that is (partly) another problem (see [[Czech Republic]], [[Czech lands]]... - Barbados (21887 bytes)
1: ...[Prime Meridian]], about 434.5 km (270 miles) northeast of [[Venezuela]].
3: ...es and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
5: ...UNDP]], the #1 developing country in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
9: ... Salodoid-Barrancoid—lived in isolation on the island.
11: ...ion]]s. Other Caribs fled the island, moving elsewhere. - Democratic Republic of the Congo (21095 bytes)
1: ...ngo War]] (known also as the African World War), the deadliest conflict since [[World War II]].
10: ...n_name = the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
15: national_anthem = [[Debout Congolais]] |
20: ...List of Presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo|President]] |
31: population_census_year = 1938 | - Babe Ruth (55357 bytes)
1: ...thbatting.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Ruth batting for the Yankees]]
2: ...]] team in [[1933 in sports|1933]]. In 1998, ''[[The Sporting News]]'' named Ruth as Number One in its...
4: ...d major expansion of nearly all the ballparks in the major leagues.
7: .... Kate would walk to her father's home each time she gave birth to a child, eight in all. Only Babe an...
9: ...e man Babe respected above all others. It was Brother Matthias who taught him baseball, working with h... - Vermont (39851 bytes)
8: Nickname = The Green Mountain State |
30: HighestElev = 1,339 |
36: ...he [[Canada|Canadian]] province of [[Quebec]] to the north.
38: ...tal is [[Montpelier, Vermont|Montpelier]], while the largest city is [[Burlington, Vermont|Burlington]...
42: ...m?), making it the 43rd largest in land area and the 47th in water area.
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