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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
9: ...]], (1757-1840), U.S. soldier and statesman, governor of Kentuvky
25: ...cki, Karol]], (1866-1933), Polish engineer and economist
56: ...ouch Adams|Adams, John Couch]], (1819-1892), astronomer
63: ...s (author)|Adams, Richard]], (born 1920), British novelist
65: ...s, Samuel]], (1722-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...nited Kingdom|United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]].
9: ...ist of Lords of the Isle of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but h...
20: ...ge|Eton]], and also learned modern languages. She now speaks fluent [[French language|French]], as she...
23: ...sed to consider this, saying, "The children could not possibly go without me, I wouldn't leave without...
27: ...itary, though other royal women have been given honorary ranks. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
4: ...s a noted British monologuist and actress, while another niece, [[Nancy Lancaster]], became famous as ...
8: ...in [[1918]], [[Constance Markiewicz]], had chosen not to do so. - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...r Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United States|Americ...
5: ... called her the ''First Lady of the World'', in honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human righ...
9: ...tions outside marriage by FDR (See [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
11: ...Hyde Park]] branches of the Roosevelt family. Eleanor is descended from the Johannes branch and Frankl... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
3: ...he was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination at her party's convention (1964 [[United ...
11: ...gie" from his staff. Her speech, although it did not produce immediate backlash, was the beginning of... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...as a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchist]] known for her [[anarchist]] [[writing]]s and [[speech...
6: ... [[Jew]]ish family in [[Kaunas]](known then as Kovno), [[Lithuania]], where her family ran a small inn...
18: ...y do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, take bread."'' (The stat...
21: ...rcest organizers, and had already achieved public notoriety by the time of the accusations. After und...
29: ...an and Goldman were both involved in setting up [[No Conscription leagues]] and organising rallies aga... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...New York Call'' entitled "What Every Girl Should Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation''...
11: ...s followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Should Know''. That year, Sanger was sent to the workhouse f...
13: ...(renamed Margaret Sanger Research Bureau in her honor in 1940). That year, she also formed the Nationa...
15: ...h Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birth Control Federation of A...
24: ... regulations requiring registration of people diagnosed with venereal diseases (which she contrasted w... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
5: ...shoy Fontan]] near [[Odessa]]. Her childhood does not appear to have been happy; her parents separated...
13: ...o Akhmatova at the Fountain House (more properly known as the [[Sheremetev Palace]] in [[St Petersburg... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ... circle known as the [[Bloomsbury group]]. While nowhere near a simple recapitulation of the coterie'...
9: ...rth Press]]. She is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century and one of the fo...
11: ...ious possibilities of fractured narrative and chronology. She has, in the words of [[E.M. Forster]], p...
13: ...closer to the prose poem than to the plot-centred novel. Her last and most ambitious work, "Between th...
15: ...ible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me yo... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|Fre...
7: ...t, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
11: ...The marriage was reportedly a publicity stunt and not legally binding). At this time she also scored h...
13: She was so well-known and popular that even the [[Nazism|Nazis]], who...
15: ... she went through six marriages, some legal, some not. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
2: ...s. Gifted with a three-octave vocal range, she is noted for her purity of tone and "horn-like" improvi...
6: ...ding fame to both the Apollo and herself. She was noticed by [[Bardu Ali]] of [[Chick Webb]]'s band, w...
10: ...[[bebop]], scat, and performed [[blues]], [[bossa nova]], [[samba (music)|samba]], [[gospel]], [[calyp...
12: ...the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
16: ''[[Porgy and Bess]]'' is the most notable of her many recordings with jazz legend [[Lo... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...est [[jazz]] [[singer]]s of all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which a...
9: ...ank DeViese]]". Some historians consider this an anomaly, probably inserted by a hospital or governmen...
16: ...had her first successes as a live performer. On [[November 23]], [[1934]], she performed at the [[Apol...
24: ...and contemporaneous sources that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
34: ...thern trees bear strange fruit" gave her a place, not just in musical history, but in American history... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...s Executive|SOE]] [[agent]] also known by the ''[[nom de guerre]]'', '''Christine Granville'''. She b...
7: ...an Karol Getlich soon ended without rancor. On [[November 2]], [[1938]], at age twenty-three, she mar...
9: ...er]], [[Jan Marusarz]], to escort her across the snow-covered [[Tatra Mountains]] into Poland. Arrivi...
11: ... (It did not hurt her cause that the Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyn...
15: ...ich her accusers might have understood, had they known her better — with which she had managed i... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
5: ...ld Samuel Marks|Leo Marks]], who gave her what is now thought of as the definitive World War II [[Poem...
13: ... Sub-lieutenant Szabo is listed on the "Roll of Honor" on the [[Valen硹 SOE Memorial]] in the town of... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: Born '''Eleanora Derenkovskaya''' on [[April 29]], [[1917]], '''...
6: ...f the Afternoon]]'' (1943). ''Meshes of the Afternoon'' is recognized as a seminal American avant-gar...
8: ...tal film]] at [[Cannes]] for ''Meshes of the Afternoon''.
10: ...involved in [[Haiti|Haitian]] [[Vodoun|voodoo]]. Not only did she film many hours of [[Vodoun|voodoo]...
14: ...phraim]]'' (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as ''[[The Changing Light at Sandover]]'' (1982... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...e in a few weeks when drama coaches said she "had no future at all as a performer". Two years later, s...
7: ...s as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "royalty" honor with [[Macdonald Carey]], who was designated as ...
11: ...ntually became ''I Love Lucy''. CBS was initially not impressed with the pilot episode produced by the...
18: ''[[I Love Lucy]]'' was not only a star vehicle for Lucille Ball, but a way ...
22: ...d the show rights back to Desilu after broadcast, not realizing they were giving away a valuable and d... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: .... She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab Farm.
8: ...lthough as screenwriter [[Anita Loos]], another minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that ...
10: ...ondon)|West End]]'s -- and [[England]]'s -- best-known celebrities.
20: ... (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New Y...
36: ... her through gauze. You should shoot me through linoleum. (Referring to Shirley Temple) - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ... movie)|Intermezzo]] ([[1939]]). The film was an enormous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[...
5: ...[[1945]]). She would receive another Best Actress nomination for ''[[Joan of Arc (movie)|Joan of Arc]]...
9: ... for which she received her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big...
13: ...cattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norra begravningsplatsen]] in [[Stockholm]].
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best A... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ...[1908]] – [[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] ...
7: ...Bondage]]''. The Motion Picture Academy failed to nominate Davis for this ''tour de force'', and such ...
9: ... ([[1950]]), for which she received another Oscar nomination, put her back on top.
11: ...ord]], earned her another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that D...
13: ...[1942]]) co-star, [[Paul Henreid]], were reunited not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Henreid dir... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...uins (TV movie)|Love Among the Ruins]]'', and was nominated for four other Emmys and two [[Tony Award]...
5: ...enereal disease]] in a time when such things were not discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth c...
7: ... films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now held up as an exemplar of [[screwball comedy]].
12: ... change his name to S. Ogden Ludlow, so she would not have to adopt the "too ordinary" name of "Mrs. S...
21: ...came the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]].
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