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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
90: *[[George Ade|Ade, George]] (1866-1944), ''[[The Slim Princess]]'' - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ...aint Vincent and the Grenadines]], the [[Solomon Islands]], [[Tuvalu]] and the [[United Kingdom|United...
9: ...e of Man|Lord of Mann]]<!--Note on spelling: the Isle of Man has one "n", but her title, Lord of Mann,...
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
60: ...however, that like many of her predecessors she dislikes the Palace as a residence and considers [[Win...
66: ... a strong sense of religious duty and takes seriously her Coronation Oath. This is one reason why it i... - 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)
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
35: ... of all mankind," and the Declaration was unanimously adopted by the [[General Assembly]] later that n...
41: ...t Campobello International Park] on [[Campobello Island, New Brunswick]] in [[1964]] following a gift ... - 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 ... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
18: ...prison|imprisoned]] in [[1893]] at [[Blackwell's Island]] penitentiary for publicly urging [[unemploym...
41: ...oldman died of a stroke in [[Toronto]] on May 14, 1940. The U.S. [[Immigration and Naturalization Servic...
53: ...one, be it individual or government, engaged in enslaving and exploiting at home, could have the integ...
55: * <blockquote>But the people are asleep; they remain indifferent. They forge their own... - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ...stricken [[Lower East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also sta...
13: ...also formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and served as its presiden...
24: ...on of those with infectious diseases such as [[measles]]). - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
19: *[http://www.usc.edu/dept/las/sll/eng/ess/obv99.htm The Obverse of Stalinism: Akhm... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
7: ...g the death of her father ([[Leslie Stephen|Sir Leslie Stephen]], a well-known [[editor]] and [[litera...
13: ...es of flux of time and life, presented simultaneously as corrosion and rejuvenation- all set in a high...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]]) - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
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]] - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
17: ..., to Polish Commander-in-Chief and Premier [[Wladyslaw Sikorski|Władysław Sikorski]]:
20: [of SOE] that General [Stanisław] [[Stanislaw Kopanski|Kopański]] [Kowerski's former com...
32: ...lding]] — another SOE agent, who had previously operated in Crete — and a French officer, ... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
7: In [[1940]], Violette married Etienne Szabo, a French offic...
13: ...d the [[George Cross]]; this was awarded posthumously on [[December 7]] [[1946]]. The [[Croix de Guerr... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
2: ...de]] [[filmmaker]] and [[film]] theorist of the [[1940]]s and [[1950]]s.
6: In the early 1940s, Deren used some of the inheritance from her fat...
10: During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Deren became heavily involved i... - 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...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: In [[1940]], Ball met Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while...
54: ...ith 'seltzer bottles' (a familiar clown prop) and slapstick.
56: ...le!", "And, it's so tasty too!" Mrs. Ricardo as a slick television 'huckster' pitching a foul-tasting ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
38: *I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
5: ...The following year she won Best Actress for ''[[Gaslight]]'' ([[1944]]). She received a third consecut...
15: Bergman was honored posthumously with an [[Emmy Award]] for Best Actress in [[198...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
40: * [[Gaslight]] (1944) - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ...
25: ... "Wicked Stepmother," which was released posthumously in [[1989]] with her still included. She is also...
36: *Nominated ''[[The Letter]]'' ([[1940]]) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
7: ...d for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as ''[...
38: ...suits and disdaining makeup. She also had a famously difficult relationship with the press, turning d...
54: ... back entrances to studios and hotels and assiduously avoiding the press. They were undeniably a coup...
66: ...that even months after she returned home the famously-vigorous actress was still ill. The trip and th...
84: ...n the [[1988]] television movie ''[[Laura Lansing Slept Here]]''.
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