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  1. Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
    5: From a [[Jew]]ish family, by the middle of 1942 in occupied France they were being rounded up by ...
    7: ...tement in the south of France. However, it was decided to send her to [[London]] and accompanied by an...
  2. Marina Raskova (5055 bytes)
    13: ...38 kills) under Tamara Kazarinova and Aleksandr Gridnev.
  3. Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
    5: ...n the [[War Office]] requested all French-born residents of London to supply them with photographs of ...
    7: She made a landing near [[Cannes]] in [[1942]], where she made contact with her supervisor, [[...
  4. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: ...am'' and also joined the [[Haganah]]. February 4, 1942 she visited [[Caesarea]]. In 1943 she enlisted in...
    13: ...rthy Miklos Prison]] where she was tortured. She did not talk even when the guards threatened to tortu...
    55: :''Happy is the blaze that burnt inside the hearts.''
    62: :''Two steps wide''
    71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?)
  5. Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
    11: ...Gestapo had not been anxious to get on the wrong side of Krystyna's aunt and of the aunt's relation, t...
    13: ...or [[Stefan Witkowski]], who would be killed in [[1942]] — it is unclear by whom or for what reaso...
    26: Krystyna now spent an appreciable hiatus, sidelined from substantial action. Her situation wou...
    30: ... [[Gestapo]]. Krystyna — under the assumed identity of "Pauline Armand" — parachuted into...
    34: ...she and her comrades had made good their escape, did it hit home: "What have I done! They could have...
  6. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    1: '''Penny Marshall''' ([[October 15]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, prod...
    9: ...ssful feature [[film|motion pictures]] since the mid-[[1980s]], including ''[[Big]]'', ''[[Awakenings]...
    17: *''[[How Come Nobody's on Our Side?]]'' (1975)
    25: *''[[Stateside]]'' (2004)
    34: *''[[Riding in Cars with Boys]]'' (2001)
  7. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    4: ... a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball decided to enroll in the
    5: ...en again for prison sentence. Right then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her li...
    9: ...rced in [[1945]], but remarried the same year, deciding to patch things up.
    22: ... stay in Los Angeles. Sponsor [[Philip Morris]] didn't want to show kinescopes to the major markets o...
    26: ... IV]]. The birth made the first cover of ''[[TV Guide]]'' the same year. However, these blessings coul...
  8. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    8: ...She was so pretty that we thought she must be stupid."
    14: Nevertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among ...
    16: ...nders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a ...
    18: ...nce. More success and the same award followed her 1942 performance in [[Thornton Wilder]]'s The Skin of ...
    20: ...[Lifeboat (movie)|Lifeboat]]. The performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her ...
  9. Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
    1: '''Ingrid Bergman''' ([[August 29]], [[1915]] – [[Aug...
    3: ...dozen films in Sweden, Bergman was signed by [[David O. Selznick]] to star in the remake of [[Intermez...
    5: ...es]], Bergman joined [[Humphrey Bogart]] in the [[1942]] classic film ''[[Casablanca (movie)|Casablanca]...
    9: ...r final performance on the big screen. It is considered to be among her best performances.
    17: ... contribution to the motion picture industry, Ingrid Bergman has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fam...
  10. Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
    5: ...]'s Manhattan Civic Repertory because she was considered insincere. So, she enrolled in [[John Murray ...
    7: ... [[1929]], in ''Broken Dishes'' and later in ''Solid South''. The next year, she was hired by [[Univer...
    9: ...]'' in [[1939]]. Davis was elected the ninth president of the [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc...
    13: ...ted not as on-screen lovers, but rather with Henreid directing Davis in the [[camp]]y dual role as a m...
    23: ...On her [[tomb stone|tombstone]] is written, "She did it the hard way."
  11. Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
    4: ...nager (her elder sister, [[Françoise Dorléac]], 1942-1967, was a popular actress before dying in a car...
    8: ...om 1965 to 1972, to the British photographer [[David Bailey]].
  12. Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
    6: ... Hughes]], and actor [[George C. Scott]], in the mid-[[1960s]]. (Scott was rumored to have beaten Gar...
    8: .... She lost to [[Audrey Hepburn]] in ''[[Roman Holiday]]''. Many thought Gardner's greatest performan...
    12: ...ally paralyzed and bedridden, [[Frank Sinatra]] paid all her medical expenses. She died of [[pneumonia...
    22: * [[Sunday Punch]] (1942)
    23: * [[We Do It Because-]] (1942) (short subject)
  13. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
    2: ... [[film]], [[television]] and [[theatre|stage]], widely recognized for her sharp wit, [[New England]] ...
    5: ...but we grew quite to enjoy that," Hepburn later said of her unabashedly liberal family, who she credit...
    7: ...e athletic, and encouraged [[swimming]], [[horse|riding]], [[golf]] and [[tennis]]. Hepburn, eager to...
    8: ...pand information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
    12: ...they were married, the couple separated. They decided to carry on their marriage in a platonic fashio...
  14. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    6: ...t her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Gif...
    8: ... Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously considered adopting her, which they could not have done ...
    12: ...self, yet also developed a gritty, opportunistic side and a super-human drive. She was very intelligen...
    18: ...lled Marilyn Miller and Monroe was her mother's maiden name which Marilyn suggested herself. The year ...
    20: ...nroe threw herself into her modelling work and rapidly began to build contacts around [[Hollywood]] an...
  15. Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
    11: ...ear she was a sports talent, but she could not decide which sport to pick. A swimming coach advised he...
    13: ...de the Dutch team, although as a sprinter, not a middle distance runner. The following year, only eigh...
    27: ...;m [[hurdling|hurdles]]. The following year, she did even better. First, she improved the high jump re...
    37: ... [[London]]. After her experience in Oslo, she decided not to take part in all events, but limit herse...
    43: ...ickness. After a long talk by her husband, she decided to run anyway, and qualified for the final with...
  16. Sonja Henie (2914 bytes)
    4: ...ing the [[1924]] program, she skated over to the side of the rink several times to ask her coach for d...
    14: ...ukemia]], on a flight from [[Paris]] to Oslo. Considered by most as the greatest female figure skater ...
    24: *''[[Second Fiddle]]'' ([[1939]])
    27: *''[[Iceland]]'' ([[1942]])
  17. Apple (20408 bytes)
    6: ...x_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
    9: {{Taxobox_subfamilia_entry | taxon = [[Maloideae]]}}
    16: ...apples are of the species ''M. domestica'' or hybrids of it.
    25: ... and ''Malus sylvestris'', but there is no hard evidence for this in older apple [[cultivar]]s. These ...
    32: ...licious' apple shape, long stem (to allow [[pesticide]]s to penetrate the top of the fruit), and popul...
  18. United Nations (29685 bytes)
    5: ...the [[Allies]]. Its first formal use was in the [[1942]] [[Declaration by the United Nations]], which co...
    20: ...debated by governments and private citizens worldwide.
    26: ... in [[New York City]] in [[1949]] and [[1950]] beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 milli...
    30: ... and make future wars impossible, by fostering an ideal of [[collective security]]. Those hopes have o...
    33: ...ly weeks after the signing of the Charter and provided immediate impetus to concepts of arms limitatio...
  19. Australia (39438 bytes)
    56: ...used the word "Australia" in the book, which was widely read and gave the term general currency. Gover...
    63: ...[[Australian Aborigine]]s, and arrived via land bridges and navigation of short sea crossings from pre...
    65: ... and claimed for [[Britain]]. His discoveries provided impetus for the establishment of a [[penal colo...
    67: ...y were never penal colonies, although the former did receive some convicts from Tasmania. Western Aust...
    69: ...referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)|1967 referendum]] did the Federal Government have a mandate to implemen...
  20. Ethiopia (20233 bytes)
    3: ... 1em; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1px #aaaaaa solid; border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 95%;"
    10: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Ethiopia flag large.png|125px...
    11: | align="center" width="140px" | [[Image:Ethiopia_COA.png|90px|Ethiopi...
    13: | align="center" width="140px" | ([[Flag of Ethiopia|In Detail]])
    14: | align="center" width="140px" | (Full size)

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