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- Marie de France (1845 bytes)
1: '''Marie de France''' was a [[poet]], in [[France]] and [[England]] during the late ...
3: ...mber of their court. The identity now known as "poet Marie de France" could be same as Eleanor's eldes...
9: * Hoepffner, Ernest "The Breton Lais" in ''Arthurian Literature in the Middle A... - Nina Hamnett (3501 bytes)
1: '''Nina Hamnett''' ([[February 14]], [[1890]] – [[December...
3: Hamnett was born in [[Tenby]], [[Pembrokeshire]], [[Wale...
5: ...ving there at the time. In Montparnasse she also met her husband, the [[Norway|Norwegian]] artist [[Ro...
7: Flamboyantly unconventional, Nina Hamnett once danced nude on a Montparnasse caf頴able ju...
9: ...tt.jpg]]</td></tr><tr><td><center>'''- ''Nina Hamnett'' -'''</center></td></tr></table> - Christine de Pizan (6645 bytes)
2: ...n their husband's absence and is therefore interpreted as a feminist push for expanded female roles; a...
9: ...etermined her to have recourse to [[literature | letters]] as a means of livelihood.
11: ...99]] she began to study the [[Latin]] poets, and between that time and 1405, as she herself declares, ...
15: ...ay of defence against those who objected to her pretensions as a moralist. [[Henry IV of England]] des...
19: ...ion of Paris by the English and Burgundians, she retired to a [[convent]]. - Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
4: ...anovo, near [[Moscow]], and passed her childhood between [[France]] and [[Russia]]. In [[1909]], her f...
6: She became, with [[Alain Robbe-Grillet]], [[Michel Butor]] and [[Claude Simon]], one of ...
8: ==Works (An Incomplete Listing)==
12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]] - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
3: ...'''. She graduated [[Phi Beta Kappa Society|Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Vassar College]] with a bachelor'...
9: She later returned to the Navy where she worked on validation s...
12: Hopper retired from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Comma...
16: ... By [[1985]] she became a [[rear admiral]]. She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
18: ...[Digital Equipment Corporation]], a position she retained until her death in [[1992]]. Her primary ac... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[Fr...
7: ...a pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
13: ...anaged to excuse herself and escaped from the chalet through a laundry chute. After the war, Baker was...
15: Yet despite her popularity in France, she was never r...
17: ...cism in her own unique way, adopting twelve multi-ethnic orphans, which she called her "Rainbow Tribe.... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]...
9: ...children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue w...
11: ...sion to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a...
13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education f...
17: ...e with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
1: ...thumb|Image of Joan of Arc, [[painting|painted]] between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des ...
2: ...ition of her innocence{{fn|5}} as found by an [[#Retrial|earlier appeal]] after her death. Her posthum...
10: ... Oil on canvas in two joined vertical panels. [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City]].]]
12: ...scort of six men. Two of these soldiers, Jean de Metz and Bertrand de Poulengy, said they gave her mal...
14: ...words "Jesus" and "Mary" on the side. With her piety, confidence, and enthusiasm, she boosted the mor... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
7: ... her as a wireless operator in preparation for a return to France.
11: ... [[crematorium]]. Both [[Lilian Rolfe]] and [[Violette Szabo]], two other female members of the SOE he... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: ...''Julia McWilliams''', was a famous American gourmet [[cook]], [[author]], and [[television]] personal...
6: ...e home-furnishing firm [[W. & J. Sloane]]. After returning to California in 1937, shortly before her m...
8: ...an Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...ily and had lived in [[Paris]] as an artist and poet. Paul joined the [[United States Foreign Service ...
14: ...e met [[Simone Beck]] who, with her friend [[Louisette Bertholle]], had written a French cookbook for ... - Maya Deren (3661 bytes)
8: ...her social circle included the likes of [[Andre Breton]], [[Marcel Duchamp]], [[John Cage]], and [[Ana...
14: ...over]]'' (1982). James Merrill paid for the completion of several of Deren's films.
24: ...Night'' (1952-55) with [[Metropolitan Opera]] Ballet School and Antony Tudor, music by Teiji Ito - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
4: ...was sponsored into the ''Conservatoire de Musique et D飬amation'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]]...
10: ... Dor靝 and [[Georges Clarin]]) and actors ([[Mounet-Sully]] and [[Lou Tellegen]]). She married Greek...
11: [[Image:Sarah Bernhardt.png|thumb|right|Sketch of Sarah Bernhardt]]
12: ...resses, debuting as [[Hamlet]] in ''Le Duel d'Hamlet'' in [[1900]]. (Technically, this was not a silen...
16: ...n Maurice. She is buried in [[Le P貥 Lachaise Cemetery]], Paris, France. - Grace Kelly (6610 bytes)
5: ...ere new but prominent figures in Philadelphia society. Her father was a self-made millionaire and a go...
9: ...o [[Donna Reed]] for her role in ''[[From Here to Eternity]]''. Kelly made three films with [[Alfred H...
11: ...r with co-star [[Bing Crosby]], which was kept quiet to protect both their reputations.
15: ...Monaco|Prince Rainier III of Monaco]] marked her retirement from acting. Before her [[marriage]], she ...
17: ...gitimized his illegitimate daughter Charlotte Louvet, who would become Rainier's mother and made her h... - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: ...aulette Goddard]] was close to be cast as [[Margaret Mitchell]]'s Southern belle.
9: ... and married [[Laurence Olivier]]. The pair had met in 1935 and had begun a rather public love affair...
11: ... the previous year of Blanche DuBois in ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]''.
34: *''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' ([[1951]]) - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
6: ...ma Jeane Baker''. Biographers used to differ on whether the man listed on her birth certificate, [[Nor...
12: ...Norma Jeane had come to think little of herself, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a...
20: ...nge his mind with scene stealing performances in Bette Davis's classic ''[[All About Eve]]'' in [[1950...
23: ... was so powerful, [[movie]] critics seemed to forget about the [[plot]] and focused on Marilyn and her...
25: ...ile beauty in the magazine was up and coming starlet Marilyn Monroe, the media went into overdrive. Ma... - Reese Witherspoon (2585 bytes)
5: ...claration of Independence]] and founder of [[Princeton University]]. Her father is a surgeon and her m...
7: ...999]]. They have two children together, Ava Elizabeth Phillippe, born [[September 9]], [[1999]] and De...
9: ...therspoon was the voice behind the character of Greta Wolfecastle in an episode of [[The Simpsons]].
27: *''[[The Trumpet of the Swan]]'' (2001) (voice)
30: *''[[Sweet Home Alabama]]'' (2002) - Billie Jean King (2811 bytes)
1: ...one of the greatest tennis players and female athletes in history.
3: ...he married Lawrence King and since then has been better known under her husband's family name.
5: ...o credited with being one of the first female athletes to speak out against [[sexual inequality in org...
9: ...the affair and thus became the first American athlete to openly acknowledge a [[homosexual]] relations... - Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
1: ...neLenglen1920.jpg|thumb|right|Suzanne Lenglen, sometimes labelled the ''[[diva]]'' or ''[[prima donna]...
3: ...and Slam]] titles. A flamboyant, trendsetting athlete, she was the first female tennis celebrity and o...
8: ... to train her further in the sport. His training methods included an exercise where he would lay down ...
10: ...topped most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on...
14: ...; her first on [[grass court|grass]] — and met seven time winner [[Dorothea Douglass|Dorothea Do... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
11: ...he game saw her embark on a punishing routine to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme l...
15: ...n in [[1978]], where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 rankin...
17: ... the final of the US Open where she lost a third-set tie-breaker to [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wim...
21: ... 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and [[1985]]. (Navrátilová was ranked ...
25: ...Open, with Graf winning both encounters in three sets. - Babe Zaharias (4002 bytes)
1: ...ht|Babe Didrikson in the 1932 Olympic javelin competition]]
3: ...eved her greatest successes in [[golf]] and [[athletics]]. She was born Mildred Didriksen (her surname...
5: She first became known as an athlete, competing in the [[1932 Summer Olympics]] in [[Los Angel...
11: ...managed two wins which were her final ones in competitive golf. Cancer took its toll and Zaharias died...
13: ...ranked woman on [[ESPN]]'s list of the 50 top athletes of the 20th century.
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