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- Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ... Baker''' ([[June 3]], [[1906]] - [[April 12]], [[1975]]), born '''Freda Josephine McDonald''', was an ...
17: ...ly one child of her own, stillborn in 1941, an incident that precipitated an emergency [[hysterectomy]...
19: On [[April 8]], [[1975]], her fortunes seemed to be turning to the bette... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
12: ...ist) the Kern and Mrcer songbooks also scored by Riddle, and [[Duke Ellington]], a later collection de...
14: ...ether with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
18: ...'s Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]'', and ''[...
95: *1975 ''[[Ella and Oscar]]''
96: *1975 ''[[Montreux '75]]'' - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...ammys]] (including 8 consecutive awards from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest fema...
8: ...or the [[African American]] community. Franklin said herself of this period, "When I went to Atlantic,...
10: ...rfunkel]] ("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[Th...
16: ... far inferior to the legendary recordings of the mid to late sixties.
37: *[[1963]] ''[[Laughing on the Outside]]'' - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
1: '''Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina''', ([[Russian language|Russian]] '''С...
3: Gubaidulina was born in [[Chistopol]], in the [[Tatar Re...
7: In the mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisa...
9: ...oning of her violin concerto ''[[Offertorium (Gubaidulina)|Offertorium]]''. She later composed a homag...
11: ...2 she followed this by the [[Johannes-Ostern (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Ostern]] ("Easter according to Joh... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
1: ... Joni Mitchell, on the cover of her album ''Both Sides Now'']]
3: ... with the burgeoning [[folk music]] scene of the mid-[[1960s]] in [[New York City]]. Through the [[197...
5: ...gs were strengthened by Mitchell's extraordinary wide-ranging voice (with a range in pitch at one time...
7: ...ed by other artists, "Chelsea Morning" and "Both Sides Now".
9: ...tthews Southern Comfort]]. (Ironically, Mitchell did not even go to [[Woodstock Festival|Woodstock]], ... - Patti Smith (6059 bytes)
4: ...boration with [[Sam Shepard]]), a career path subsidised by rock [[journalism]], especially within the...
6: ... in an assembly line in New Jersey, with the flipside a version of the rock standard with the addition...
8: ...[punk rock]] with spoken poetry and is widely considered one of rock's greatest debuts. The cover phot...
10: ...e record, Smith fell from a stage in [[Tampa, Florida]], falling 15 feet into a concrete orchestra pit...
19: ...Iraq|Iraq war]] and [[impeachment|impeach]] [[President George W. Bush]]. - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: ...or]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kolkata]]) was widely reported.
11: ...ation to help the poor from the age of 12, and decided to train for missionary work in [[India]]. She ...
13: ...isters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education for girls. After a few months training...
15: ..., becoming its principal in [[1944]]. She later said that the poverty all around left a deep impressio...
24: .... Soon after she opened another hospice, Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart), a home for [[leprosy|lepers]] cal... - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
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) - 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...
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...
27: * [[On the Sunny Side]] (1936) - 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...
15: ...e'', in the [[1960s]], and ''Mother Goddam'' in [[1975]]. - 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...
25: * [[Kid Glove Killer]] (1942)
32: * [[Young Ideas]] (1943) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...aptation]]''. Hepburn won an [[Emmy Award]] in [[1975]] for her lead role in ''[[Love Among the Ruins (...
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... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
25: *''[[Twister: Ride it Out]]'' (1998)
40: *''[[Incident at Dark River]]'' (Made for TV) (1989)
60: *''[[Child Bride of Short Creek]]'' (Made for TV) (1981)
65: ...975)|The Swiss Family Robinson]]'' (Made for TV) (1975)
66: *''[[All Together Now]]'' (Made for TV) (1975) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...Loren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actre...
11: ...[[1957]]'s ''[[Boy on a Dolphin]]'' and ''[[The Pride and the Passion]]'',(in which she co-starred wit...
13: ...dess and major sex symbol, Loren demonstrated considerable dramatic skills and gained respect as a dra...
19: ...in Italy on [[tax evasion]] charges, a fact that didn't damage her career or popularity.
31: ... ([[Charlton Heston]]'s love interest) in ''[[El Cid]]''; Lucilla in ''[[The Fall of the Roman Empire ... - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
9: ...he House of the Spirits]]'', [[1995]]'s ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' (largely regarded as her...
11: However, that is not to say that Streep did not maintain her reputation as an acting great&md...
13: ...Events]]''. That same year, Manhattan Borough President [[C. Virginia Fields]] proclaimed [[May 27]] "...
58: *[[1996]] - [[SAG]] Best Actress, in ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]''
59: ...6]] - [[Golden Globe]] Best Actress, in ''[[The Bridges of Madison County]]'' - Nadia Comaneci (5337 bytes)
3: ...e of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. She is considered by some to be one of the greatest athletes in...
7: .... At the Pre-Olympics competition in Montr顬 in 1975 Nadia won the All-Around title. That same year t...
9: ...more times), she also won three gold medals (individual all-around, balance beam and uneven bars), a s...
17: ...art of the judges as the Romanians themselves provided half the judges here. Between [[1984]] and [[19...
23: ..., the Ambassador Of Sports Of Romania, a Vice President of the Board of Directors of the [[Muscular Dy... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
2: ...''' (born [[March 3]], [[1962]]) is generally considered as the best all-around female [[athlete]] in ...
4: ...75 television movie about [[Babe Zaharias|"Babe" Didrikson]].
8: ...o Jackie and Al to authorize removal, which they did. - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...vakia, she defected to the [[United States]] in [[1975]] and became a US citizen in [[1981]]. During her...
9: ...irst professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]] in [[1974]].
11: ...t one point unflatteringly labelled the “Great Wide Hope” by the [[journalist]] [[Bud Collins]]), ...
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19: The mid-[[1980s]] were the most dominant period of Navrá... - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
2: ... the wife of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Bill Clinton]]. She is a member of the [[...
6: ...m was raised in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her father ran a drapery-making b...
8: ... a student at Wellesley College she served as President of the College Republicans for a time. After a...
10: ...uld become the future White House Counsel for President Clinton.
12: ... counsel for a brief time before he committed suicide in 1993]. - Definitions of music (17609 bytes)
8: In the European [[Middle Ages]], [[musica]] was part of the mathematica...
10: ...ns. From this concept later resulted the romantic idea of a music of the spheres.
12: ...e certain beneficiary effects. Rather than being ridiculed as unscientific, Medieval thought should be...
17: ...r music in Tiv, Yoruba, Igbo, Efik, Birom, Hausa, Idoma, Eggon or Jarawa. Many other languages have te...
21: ...sicness"; Koran chanting and [[Adhan]] is not considered music, but classical improvised song, classic...
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