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  1. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
    9: ...in Britain may have been remembered for centuries afterward. Yet the obscurity surrounding the histori...
    35: ...rthur. One theory as to why this happened is that after the [[Norman Conquest]] of Britain in [[1066]]...
    43: ...d [[Isolde]]. In the late prose romances the love affair between Arthur's champion, Lancelot, and the ...
    47: ...ounts Arthur was said to be mortally wounded, but after the battle he was taken away to [[Avalon]] (so...
    64: ...om the hand in the water, and named it Excalibur, after his original sword. The first appearance of th...
  2. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    4: ...[[cryptography]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair with William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a chi...
    24: ... about a threat to ''Touched by An Angel'' months after the program's last episode had been aired.
  3. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    9: ...[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public...
    13: ...ful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[Janu...
    29: ...nced [[Ernst Lubitsch]] to direct her next film. After considering alternatives, they settle on ''[[R...
    34: * [[1941]]: The [[Society of Independent Motion Picture Pr...
    38: ...fe, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents....
  4. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    4: ...d by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max Jacob]]. In [[1941]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate he...
  5. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    7: ...[[Vienna]] and then [[Paris]] when she was three. After returning almost two years later, she was educ...
    27: ...ard Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his...
    29: After the war, Gertrude's status in Paris grew when ...
    34: After moving to Paris in 1903 she started to write i...
    63: ...f mundane tasks and Alice Toklas managed everyday affairs.
  6. Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
    2: ...'' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English [[aviatrix]] who was born...
    8: ...thern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,000 miles. Her aeroplane for this fl...
    12: ...the flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Puss Moth. She was later to rega...
    14: ... Mollison]], who had proposed to her only 8 hours after they had met, during a flight of theirs.
    20: ...n near [[Oxford]], she went off course. She died after crashing into the [[Thames]] estuary. Although...
  7. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    3: ...([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[poet]] and [[writer]].
    10: ...ver her. She, for her part, had had a tragic love affair before her marriage, and had not forgotten it...
    12: ...na. The children began to run wild. This state of affairs was allowed to continue until June [[1904]] ...
    14: ...[[Maximilian Voloshin]], whom Tsvetaeva described after his death in 'A Living Word About a Living Man...
    18: ...'. At around the same time, she also conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], w...
  8. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    3: ...([[January 25]], [[1882]] – [[March 28]], [[1941]]) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[author]] an...
    13: ...ith the surge of Feminist criticism in the 1970s. After a few more ideologically based altercations, i...
    15: On March 28, [[1941]], Woolf filled her pockets with stones, and drow...
    38: *''Between the Acts'' ([[1941]])
    62: * [http://acad.depauw.edu/%7Eafernald/passing_glances.html Passing Glances. A li...
  9. Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
    5: ... in [[London]] in the [[United Kingdom]], into an affluent and influential Anglo-Jewish family. Her gr...
    8: ...l and how to use them most efficiently, a problem affecting the war. Her work helped spark the idea of...
    9: ...structure of carbons. Indeed on several occasions after accepting a position at King's, but before lea...
    15: ... presentations, James Watson was present. Shortly afterwards [[Francis Crick]] and Watson put together...
    18: ...heir paper. In fact, she had already prepared a draft paper describing the structure as a double helix...
  10. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    3: ...egan teaching mathematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    16: After Rep. [[Philip Crane]] saw her on a March [[198...
  11. Martha Argerich (3384 bytes)
    3: '''Martha Argerich''' (born [[June 5]], [[1941]]) is a [[pianist]] of [[Argentina|Argentinian]] ...
  12. 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: ...Baker had only one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hys...
    36: ...ttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151636/ Moulin Rouge (1941)]''
  13. Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
    5: ...the baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed man...
    11: ...ge, the couple had a child, a boy, who died hours after he was born on [[March 30]], [[1960]]. The rel...
    13: ...es were buried in the [[P貥 Lachaise]] cemetery. After being stolen and later recovered, they were sc...
  14. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed ...
    10: She began her [[solo]] career in [[1941]]. Beginning as a [[Swing (genre)|swing]] singer,...
    20: She married twice. In 1941 she married Benny Kornegay, but the marriage was ...
    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.
  15. 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...
    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...
  16. Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
    13: ...moned an ambulance. She was taken to Clarksdale's Afro-Hospital and her arm was amputated, but she nev...
    17: ...red ambulance....She died some eight or ten hours after admission to the hospital. We gave her every m...
  17. Julia Child (8199 bytes)
    6: ...joined the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy ...
    10: ...large social circle. In 1948, they moved to Paris after the [[United States State Department | U.S. St...
    22: ...d to the inception of her television cooking show after viewers enjoyed her demonstration of how to co...
    28: ... 1978 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], continui...
    34: ...d Paul, who was ten years older, died in [[1994]] after living in a nursing home for five years during...
  18. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: ...Nahalal]] in [[Palestine (region)|Palestine]]. In 1941 she joined a [[kibbutz]] called ''Sedot Yam'' and...
    21: After the Cold War, a Hungarian military court offic...
    52: The following lines are the last song she wrote after she was parachuted into a Partisan camp in Yug...
    59: ... following lines were found in Hanna's death cell after her execution, (translated from the Hebrew ver...
  19. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    7: ...0]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
    11: ...rested by the German [[Gestapo]] in [[January]] [[1941]] and she managed to win her own and Kowerski's r...
    17: ... of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wla...
    19: ...king with our officials in [[Budapest]] on Polish affairs. He is now in Palestine […]. I unde...
    22: ... had invaded the [[Soviet Union]] ([[June 22]], [[1941]]) as her intelligence obtained from the Musketee...
  20. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    18: *''[[1941]]'' (1979)

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