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- List of people by name: Ad (7741 bytes)
8: ...n Adair (surveyor)|Adair, John]], (died 1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker
45: *[[Edwin Adams Cotto|Adams Cotto, Edwin]], (1978-2005), Puerto Rican who was conv...
65: ...2-1803), American patriot & Governor of Massachusetts
67: *[[Scott Adams|Adams, Scott]], (born 1957), American creator of the [[Dilbert...
69: ...[[Thomas Adams (architect)|Adams, Thomas]], (1871-1940), UK urban planner - Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (35966 bytes)
7: ... [[New Zealand]], [[Papua New Guinea]], [[Saint Kitts and Nevis]], [[Saint Lucia]], [[Saint Vincent an...
20: ...ork. Her [[governess]] was [[Marion Crawford]], better known as "Crawfie". She studied history with C....
23: ...e King won't leave under any circumstances". In [[1940]] Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast, ad...
33: ...as simply referred to as Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten before being created [[Duke of Edinburgh]] befo...
35: ...lip should have the ''personal surname'' [[Mountbatten-Windsor]]. - Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (3681 bytes)
8: ...ny times, serving until 1945. She attracted much attention as she was the first woman member to actual...
10: ...to Hitler about his treatment of the [[Jew]]s. In 1940 she urged Prime Minister [[Neville Chamberlain]] ... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
5: ...ion]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal De...
9: ...as the eldest child of [[Elliott Roosevelt I|Elliott Roosevelt]] and [[Anna Hall Roosevelt]] and was a...
11: ...velt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s. His grandsons...
15: ...ved in the White House with the first family in [[1940]].
16: ...y Pictures are nearly all up & I have you in my sitting room where I can look at you most of my waking... - Margaret Chase Smith (2711 bytes)
5: ...during [[World War II]]. As co-chair of a subcommittee that investigated problems encountered by the W...
11: ...ns defeating key Democrats, but in 1954, when he attempted to challenge her seat, the Maine voters rej... - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ...n''' ([[June 27]], [[1869]] – [[May 14]], [[1940]]) was a [[Lithuania]]n-born [[anarchism|anarchis...
6: ...eeds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
13: ...ted States at the time. Her defense of Berkman's attempted assassination of [[Henry Clay Frick]] made ...
21: ... President several days before. The authorities' attempt to associate her and the other nine anarchist...
25: ...working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies."'' - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
7: ... East Side, Manhattan|East Side]] slums of [[Manhattan]]. That same year, she also started writing a c...
11: ...ributed as one of the [[E. Haldeman-Julius]] "[[Little Blue Books]]." It not only provided basic infor...
13: ...40). That year, she also formed the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control and se...
24: ...keep women in submission. An [[atheist]], Sanger attacked the Christian church for its opposition to h...
35: ...han the chimpanzee in brain development, has so little sexual control that police authority alone prev... - Anna Akhmatova (2156 bytes)
9: ...etess [[Marina Tsvetaeva]], with several poems written in the form of correspondence between the two.
11: ...n 1925 and 1952 (except for an interval between [[1940]] and [[1946]]). She died in [[Leningrad]] in 196...
16: *[http://www.imwerden.de/akhmatova.html Akhmatova's poe...
17: *[http://www.jazzkeyboard.com/jill/akhmatova/index.html...
18: *[http://www.poetseers.org/the_great_poets/fe/eu/aa Ann... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
11: ...[E.M. Forster]], pushed the English language "a little further against the dark," and her literary ach...
15: ...r life, that without me you could work" (<i>The Letters of Virginia Woolf</i>, vol. VI, p. 481).
20: ... Woolf: Lesbian Readings'', edited by Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer. Louise A. DeSalvo offers tre...
52: *''Roger Fry: A Biography'' ([[1940]])
60: * [http://www.online-literature.com/virginia_woolf/ Read... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
7: ...], where she starred at the [[Folies Bergè²¥]], setting the standard for her future acts. Already a st...
19: ...975]], her fortunes seemed to be turning to the better when she was the star of a retrospective show i...
21: ...ly binding), French sugar magnate Jean Lion (1937-1940, divorced), French orchestra leader Jo Bouillon (...
33: * ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0135652/ La Sir讥 des tropiques (1927)]'' ... aka...
34: * ''[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026023/ Zouzou (1934)]'' - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ... Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
6: ...] was at age 16 in [[1934]] at the [[Harlem, Manhattan|Harlem]] [[Apollo Theater]], [[New York]], in o...
12: ...ne of the few to sing - in her unique way - the little known lyrics.
130: ...ou needed an elevator to go from the top to the bottom. There's nobody to take her place." - [[David B...
133: ...ound as modern 200 years from now." - [[Tony Bennett]] - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
14: ... producer]] [[John Hammond]] at a club called Monette's (there is still some dispute among historians ...
16: ...ly at numerous clubs on [[52nd Street]] in [[Manhattan]].
24: ... that she began intravenous use sometime around [[1940]].
34: ...usical history, but in American history as well [http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/strangefruit/]. - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ... Operations Executive]] was founded in [[July]] [[1940]].) Her resourcefulness and success have been cr...
7: ...na Skarbek grew up in comfort until her father frittered away the proceeds from his wife's dowry with ...
9: ...She left for [[Hungary]], where in [[February]] [[1940]] she persuaded a skeptical prewar Polish [[Olymp...
15: ...olish intelligence officers thought, could have gotten the visas.
17: ...be, from [[1943]], head of [[SOE]] — in a letter of [[June 17]], [[1941]], to Polish Commander-i... - Violette Szabo (2541 bytes)
1: [[Image:Violetteszabo1944.gif|right]]
3: '''Violette Reine Elizabeth Bushell Szabo''', [[George Cross...
5: ...r and an [[England|English]] father, born '''Violette Bushell''' in [[Paris, France]]. She was a secr...
7: ...l Alamein]]. This was the event that caused Violette to offer her services to the SOE. Parachuted int...
9: ...trayed and arrested by the [[Gestapo]], despite putting up fierce resistance with her [[Sten]] gun. Sh... - 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...
21: ...Choreography for Camera'' (1945) with [[Talley Beatty]]
26: ...e'' (1943) with [[Marcel Duchamp]] and Pajorita Matta - 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...
5: ... the shy girl was outshined by another pupil: [[Bette Davis]]. Lucille later went home in a few weeks ...
7: ...to [[MGM]] (after little success at RKO) in the [[1940s]], but never achieved great success in films. Sh...
9: ...mediately and eloped the same year to much press attention. However, Arnaz's philandering and drinking...
13: ... [[1953]], she was subpoenaed by the [[House Committee on Un-American Activities]], due to her having ... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
4: ...Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[1936]]-[[1940]]), niece of [[United States Senate|Senator]] [[J...
8: ...ther minor Roundtable member said: "She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
14: ...t choice among established stars" to play [[Scarlett O'Hara]].
16: ...Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a straight face).
18: ...he played Regina in [[Lillian Hellman]]'s [[The Little Foxes]] (1939). Her portrayal won the New York ... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
13: ...gland]]. She was cremated in Sweden, her ashes scattered with a part kept to be interred in the [[Norr...
33: * [[June Night]] (1940)
69: * [[A Matter of Time]] (1976)
73: * [http://www.cmgww.com/stars/bergman/ Official web site... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
1: ...is''' the actress; there is also singer named [[Betty Davis]].''
2: [[Image:bettedavis.jpg|thumb|right|208x240|]]
3: ...h; [[October 6]], [[1989]]), better known as '''Bette Davis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[Uni...
5: ...as denied admission to [[Eva LeGallienne]]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insi...
9: ...gned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance in ''[[All About Eve]]'' ... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
5: ...[urologist]], and Katharine Houghton, a [[suffragette]] and [[birth control]] advocate who, along with...
12: ...ssman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a short engagem...
21: ...urn became the talk of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]].
30: ...ficant press attention, would wear overalls and ratty tennis shoes instead of glamorous clothing fit f...
32: ...pburn played Jo in the screen adaptation of ''[[Little Women]]'', which broke box-office records.
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