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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner
70: *[[Tony Adams (actor)|Adams, Tony]], (born 1940), British actor - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
9: ...ngest-serving current head of state in the world, after King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]] of Thailand.
15: ...s wife, the Countess of Strathmore. She was named after her mother, while her two middle names are tho...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
29: ...47]], when she accompanied her parents to [[South Africa]]. On her 21st birthday she made a broadcast ...
35: After their wedding Philip and Elizabeth took up res... - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal Declaration of...
13: ...of the Democratic Party, which Alice viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
22: ... for their racism), she was the connection to the African-American population and helped Mr. Roosevelt...
31: ==Life After the White House== - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ... to the House of Representatives on [[June 3]], [[1940]] to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her ...
11: ...t ire and the nickname "Moscow Maggie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immedi... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
6: ... [[St Petersburg]] at the age of thirteen. There, after a revolutionary sentiment had spread across th...
9: ...er Jacob Kersner. The hanging of four anarchists after the [[Haymarket Riot]] drew the young Emma Gol...
21: ...public notoriety by the time of the accusations. After undergoing intense cross-examining in confinem...
29: ...ration, left'') She was imprisoned for two years, after which she was deported to Russia. At her depor... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
5: ...ed as a [[nurse]] and worked for ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1...
13: ...as its president of until its dissolution in 1937 after birth control under medical supervision was le...
17: ...ilable [[birth control pill]]. She toured Europe, Africa, and Asia, lecturing and helping to establish...
19: ...n [[Tucson, Arizona]] at age 87 only a few months after the landmark [[Griswold v. Connecticut]] decis...
31: ...waste her creative powers by brooding over a love affair to the extend of exhausting her system, with ... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
13: ...ith the surge of Feminist criticism in the 1970s. After a few more ideologically based altercations, i...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]])
62: * [http://acad.depauw.edu/%7Eafernald/passing_glances.html Passing Glances. A li... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, somet...
7: ...ncing]] and appearing practically naked on stage. After a successful tour of [[Europe]], she returned ...
13: ... escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was awarded the [[Croix de Guer...
17: ... lived with all of her children and an enormous staff in a castle in France. (Baker had only one child...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
22: ...1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] ap...
28: ...n releasing albums on the [[Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles. - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...ora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
16: ...standing as a jazz and blues singer. Shortly thereafter, Holiday began performing regularly at numerou...
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
26: ... her impact on other artists was undeniable. Even after her death she influenced such singers as [[Jan...
28: ...at [[March 28]], Billie married Louis McKay, a [[mafia]] "enforcer". McKay, like most of the men in h... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...0]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
19: ...king with our officials in [[Budapest]] on Polish affairs. He is now in Palestine […]. I unde...
22: ...ses, as a British [[Women's Auxiliary Air Force|WAAF]] flight officer ([[November 21]], [[1944]] &mdas... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: ...married Etienne Szabo, a French officer. Shortly after the birth of their only child, Tania, he was k... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
4: ... was born in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]]. In [[1922]], after a series of anti-Semitic [[pogroms]] and becau...
6: ...hes of the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avan...
8: ...rimental film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ... accompanying documentary was edited and produced after her death. - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ... Love Lucy]]. A 'B-grade' [[movie star]] of the [[1940s]], she became one of the best and most popular s...
4: ...her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball ...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...used problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed ...
22: ..., CBS relinquished the show rights back to Desilu after broadcast, not realizing they were giving away... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...in [[Munkbrogreven]] ([[1934]]), her first movie. After a dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by...
5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appear...
7: ...or Rossellini and they married and had a son. The affair caused was a scandal in both Hollywood and wi...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
17: ..., although she married four times and had several affairs, including ones with [[George Brent]] and [[...
19: ...Davis, The Lonely Life'', which appeared the year after her death, updating what had happened since he...
23: ...llowing a long battle with [[breast cancer]], and after having suffered at least one serious stroke. S...
27: After the song "[[Bette Davis Eyes]]" became a hit s... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...children, at their parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various to...
10: ...ma -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
12: ...main lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
21: ...e director could not find anyone to replace her. After another summer of stock companies, in [[1932]]...
26: ... was earning between $80 — $100 per week). After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her dema...
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