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- Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
7: ...th [[Jack Nicholson]]), for which she won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1998]].
9: ...first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Academy Award]] in the same year.
11: ...n [[July 18]], [[1999]]. The couple divorced on [[December 18]], [[2000]].
18: *''[[The Curse of the Jade Scorpion]]'' (2001)
24: *''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (Made for TV) (1998) - May Irwin (2858 bytes)
1: ...]], was an actress, singer and major star of [[vaudeville]].
4: ... girls debuted in nearby [[Buffalo, New York]] in December of 1874. By the fall of 1877, their career ...
6: ...t of 1884. In 1886 her husband of eight years, Frederick W. Keller, passed away unexpectedly.
8: ... developed her career into that of a leading [[vaudeville]] performer with an act known at the time as...
12: ...America's most beloved performers. In 1914, she made her second [[silent film]] appearance, this time ... - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
3: ... [[Princess]] Grace of [[Monaco]]''', was an [[Academy Award|Oscar]]-winning [[United States|American]...
5: ...llowed in that tradition. ''Kelly Drive'' in Philadelphia is named for John, Jr., who was a city counc...
7: ...becoming an actress, Kelly became a [[fashion]] model and appeared in her first [[film]], ''[[Fourteen...
9: ...ilms with [[Alfred Hitchcock]]: ''[[Dial M for Murder]]'', ''[[Rear Window]]'', and ''[[To Catch a Thi...
11: ...n [[1955 in film|1955]], she was awarded the [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] for ''[[The Country Gi... - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: ...Kidman''' (born [[June 20]], [[1967]]) is an [[Academy Award]] winning [[Australia|Australian]] [[actr...
10: ...|Flirting]]'' (1991). In 1989 she appeared in ''[[Dead Calm]]'' which gained her notice in the United ...
13: ...ried on [[Christmas Eve]] of [[1990]] in [[Telluride, Colorado]]. The couple adopted two children, Isa...
15: ...ne persistent rumour claims however that Kidman's desire to bring up their children [[Catholicism|Cath...
19: ...Away]]'' ([[1992]]). Later she was in ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final ... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
3: ... She then went on to graduate from the [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art]].
7: ...search" in which many popular actresses were considered for the role opposite [[Clark Gable]] includin...
11: ...s year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
13: ...ed to keep a framed photograph of him on her bedside table, even while living with her companion, acto...
34: *''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' ([[1951]]) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ...eing the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English langua... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...en presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] an...
6: ... of Los Angeles County Hospital. Her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, later had her baptized ''Norm...
8: ...Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done w...
10: ...ospital in [[Norwalk, California|Norwalk]], where Della had died; Gladys's father, Otis, died in a men...
12: ...elf, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligent... - Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
3: ... on [[June 18]] [[1952]], is a [[model (person)|model]] and an [[Actor|actress]], daughter of [[Ingrid...
6: Other roles include ''[[Cousins]]'' a Hollywood remake of the French ...
8: ... ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]]'' in an episode of ''[[Tales from the Crypt (TV series)|Tales fro...
10: ...Martin Scorsese]], and later married to [[John Wiedemann]] with whom she has a daughter, Elettra. She ...
14: Her modeling career began when she was photographed by [[B... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
2: ...m the [[1980s]] to the present day, has been regarded as one of the best in her field.
5: ...s]], [[1979]]), and ''[[Sophie's Choice]]'' ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[1982]]...
7: ...on so many greatest movie star lists, Streep also defied expectations by her happy home life—mar...
9: ...to date—and her noted comic turn in ''[[She-Devil]]''.
11: ...s Room]]'', and completing another successful decade with ''[[Music of the Heart]]'', for which she le... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
5: ...& Hammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]''.
7: In [[1956]], composers [[Frederick Loewe]] and [[Alan Jay Lerner]] cast Andrews ...
9: ...Newman]] (both in [[1966]]), and ''[[Thoroughly Modern Millie]]'' ([[1967]]), with [[Mary Tyler Moore]...
11: ...-[[1973]], but the greatest critical acclaim accorded her TV work was for her [[variety show]] special...
13: ...r box office hits. She has also starred in two made-for-television movies based on the character of E... - Reese Witherspoon (2585 bytes)
2: ...s sequel ''[[Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde]]'' ([[2003]]).
5: ...ited States Declaration of Independence]] and founder of [[Princeton University]]. Her father is a sur...
7: ...eth Phillippe, born [[September 9]], [[1999]] and Deacon Phillippe, born [[October 23]], [[2003]].
9: ...ind the character of Greta Wolfecastle in an episode of [[The Simpsons]].
12: ...pg|thumb|right|Reese Witherspoon in ''Legally Blonde (2001)'']] - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ... of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is considered by some to be one of the greatest athletes in ...
5: ... and Stefania-Alexandrina; she was named after "Nadezhda" ("Hope"), the heroine of a Russian film.
7: ...ela Karolyi]] and his wife Marta, who would later defect to the [[United States]] and become coaches o...
11: Comaneci successfully defended her European all-around title in 1977, but the R...
13: ...t from her metal grip buckle. Against doctors' orders, she left the hospital and competed on beam whe... - Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
4: ...ng the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for di...
6: By the next Olympiad, she needed no such assistance. She won her first of ten con...
12: ...e basis for the [[Henie-Onstad Art Centre]] at H?dden, near [[Oslo]].
14: ...kemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater i...
26: *''[[Sun Valley Serenade]]'' ([[1941]]) - Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
1: ... magazine, featuring Shirley Muldowney and her trademark pink dragster]]
4: Muldowney was described by longtime drag racer [[Fred Farndon]] as...
10: Muldowney was portrayed by actress [[Bonnie Bedelia]] in the 1983 film, ''[[Heart Like a Wheel]]''... - Katarina Witt (1117 bytes)
1: '''Katarina Witt''' was born on [[December 3]], [[1965]] in [[Staaken]] (today [[Berli...
5: * [http://www.katarina-witt.de/ Official Web Site]
6: ...iwomen/2001/december/playbook/ Sports Illustrated Dec 2001 Interview] - Campion (697 bytes)
- Middle Ages (21063 bytes)
1: ...eginning of the [[Early Modern]] period that preceded the [[Industrial Revolution]].
5: ...] flourished in the early '''Middle Ages''': [[Hildesheim]].]]
6: ...cial senses were unevolved and its technologies undeveloped, compared to the preceding culture.
8: ...ished, leading to the rise of illiteracy among leadership.
10: ===A new order=== - Iconography (7643 bytes)
1: ...00px|''[[Salvator Mundi]]'' is an [[iconography]] depicting [[Christ]] with his right hand raised in [...
2: ...[symbolism|symbolically]] mean more than a simple depiction of the person involved.
4: ...ms of change, the flower of new life, the fire of destruction, etc.). The many heads, eyes, feet, and ...
6: ...[[Old Testament]] scriptures against the material depiction of the immaterial [[God]] is overturned in...
8: ...irement of the iconographer in order to correctly depict the spiritual realm. For the [[Eastern Orthod... - Manuscript (5266 bytes)
1: ...uced some other way. Information may be hand-recorded in other ways than in manuscripts, as [[inscript...
8: ...oll]]s (''volumen'' in Latin) or [[book]]s (''[[codex]], codices''). Manuscripts were produced on [[v...
10: ...ch making a single copy from an original that was declaimed aloud.
12: ... languages]], written on palm leaves, survived in desert burials in the [[Tarim Basin]] of Central Asi...
16: ...brew language|Hebrew]] manuscripts, such as the [[Dead Sea scrolls]] make no such differentiation. - Cor anglais (2674 bytes)
1: ...amore]]s but larger. If the oboe were to be regarded as a soprano in C, then the "cor anglais" would ...
7: ...manding to play. The amount of breath support needed is greater than for the oboe, as is the difficul...
9: ...which is generally done by the performer, is considered something of an art. While performing, cor an...
15: ...tainty that this is the case. This probable misunderstanding gave birth to another one, the naming of...
22: ...scores over the oboe, most likely because its rounder tone quality.
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