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- Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
9: ...e with some ideas from the IBM equivalent, the COMTRAN. However, it was her idea that programs could b...
14: ... vendors. These tests, and their official administration, were taken over in the 1980s by the Nationa...
16: .... She retired (involuntarily) from the Navy in [[1986]].
22: ...e Murray Hopper Park]]'', located on South Joyce Street in Arlington, Virginia, is a small memorial pa...
28: * [[1986]] — Upon her retirement she received the [[... - Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
3: ...Donald''', was an [[African American]] dancer, actress and singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venu...
7: ...ar. The leopard frequently escaped into the orchestra pit, where it terrorized the musicians, adding y...
11: ... successfully as a Sicilian [[count]]—Baker transformed her stage and public persona into a soph...
13: ...owed Baker to show her loyalty to her adopted country by participating in the [[French Resistance|Unde...
17: ...Kelly|Princess Grace]] of [[Monaco]], another expatriate American entertainer living in Europe. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
6: ... hire her. She started singing with Webb's Orchestra in [[1935]], in Harlem's [[Savoy Ballroom]]. She...
8: ...e new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
10: ...oice and typical gestures, as well as [[Louis Armstrong]]'s.
12: ...s with the famous Ellington's hit "[[Take the 'A' train]]", of which she was one of the few to sing - ...
14: ..., [[Dizzy Gillespie]], and the [[Tommy Flanagan]] Trio, she also sang together with the "other voice" ... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry publications/media outlets as [[Rolling Stone]] ...
6: ...rma]], sang at her father's [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at...
10: ...("[[Bridge Over Troubled Water (song)|Bridge Over Troubled Water]]"), [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters...
14: ...973 ''''You.'''' But it still produced a standout track ''"Angel",'' written by her sister Carolyn whi...
18: ...or several years after that. She lives today in Detroit. - Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
5: ...ng|tunings]]. She was supported, however, by [[Dmitri Shostakovich]], who in evaluating her final exam...
7: ... mid-1970s Gubaidulina founded Astreja, a folk-instrument improvisation group with fellow composers Vi...
11: ...ommemoration of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]. Her contribution was the [[Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)|J...
21: *''Vivente - Non Vivente'' for electronics (1970)
23: *String Quartet No. 1 (1971) - Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
1: ...5]], [[1942]]) is an [[United States|American]] actress, producer and director.
12: As Actress:
28: *''[[Jumpin' Jack Flash]]'' (1986)
37: *[http://imdb.com/name/nm0001508/ IMDb entry for Penny Marshall] - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
2: ...89]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]], [[comedian]] and star of [[I Love Lucy]]. A...
5: ... then, Ball decided that she needed to escape the traumas of her life.
7: ...ed in many small movie roles in the 1930s as a contract player for [[RKO]]. She switched to [[MGM]] (a...
17: ...ate_factory1.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Lucy and Ethel try to "Speed it up a little."]]
18: ...rriage to [[Desi Arnaz]], which had become badly strained, in part by the fact that each had a hectic ... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
2: ...rector|director]] [[John Farrow]] and his wife, actress [[Maureen O'Sullivan]].
5: ...'s Baby]]'' with director [[Roman Polanski]], Sinatra served her divorce papers in front of the cast a...
15: ==Trivia==
17: * Screen-tested for the role of Liesel Von Trapp in ''[[The Sound of Music]]''.
47: *''[[Hannah and Her Sisters]]'' ([[1986]]) - Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
1: [[Image:JodieFosteractress.jpg |thumb|185px|Jodie Foster]]
2: ...962]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[Actor|actress]] and [[Film director|director]].
7: ...ion for the [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress]] for her role in [[Martin Scorsese]]'s film '...
9: ...Award for Best Actress|Academy Awards]] as Best Actress for her role as a gang-rape victim in ''[[The ...
34: *''[[Catchfire]]'' (1990) a.k.a. ''Backtrack'' - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...an Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress of all time.
5: ...discussed, and her mother campaigned for birth control and equal rights for women. The Hepburns deman...
19: ...rived late and, once on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she ...
21: ... [[The Warrior's Husband]] (an update of ''[[Lysistrata]]''), which debuted to excellent reviews. Hep...
26: In true Hepburn fashion, she demanded an outlandish $1,... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
3: ...963]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. She was born in [[Los Angeles, California]...
7: ..., for which she won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1998]].
9: In 1998, Hunt became the first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Academy Award...
31: *''[[Trancers III]]'' (1992)
37: *''[[Trancers II]]'' (1991) - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
1: ...demy Award]] winning [[Australia|Australian]] [[actress]], [[producer]], and [[singer]].
3: The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old, when Tony Kid...
8: ...was diagnosed with breast cancer, as Kidman concentrated on her family responsibilities until her moth...
10: ...mini-series ''[[Vietnam (miniseries)|Vietnam]]'' (1986), ''[[Bangkok Hilton]]'' (1989) and ''[[Flirting ...
13: ...r, and lived in [[Los Angeles, California]], [[Australia]], [[Colorado]], and [[New York]]. - Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
3: ...], is a [[model (person)|model]] and an [[Actor|actress]], daughter of [[Ingrid Bergman]] and [[Robert...
5: As an actress is probably best known for her role as Dorothy...
10: ...ohn Wiedemann]] with whom she has a daughter, Elettra. She was also romantically linked to [[David Lyn...
18: An exhibition of photographs of Rossellini, ''Portrait of a Woman'', was held in March [[1988]] at th...
29: * ''[[Blue Velvet]]'' (1986) - Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
1: [[image:Streep_Silkwood.jpg|thumb|right|Streep in ''Silkwood'' (1983)]]
2: ...n [[June 22]], [[1949]]) is an American [[actor|actress]] who has received numerous accolades for her ...
5: ...oice]]'' ([[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]], [[1982]]).
7: ...n—and her truthful approach toward the industry and her own presence within it. As she would say...
9: ...immediate audience. In the [[1990s]], therefore, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, in... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
1: ...|thumb|250px|Julie Andrews as Maria, with the Von Trapp children in ''The Sound of Music''.]]
3: ...]], [[1935]]) is a [[United Kingdom|British]] [[actress]], [[singer]], and [[author]], best known for ...
5: ...tion of ''[[The Boy Friend]]'' in [[1953]] (which transferred to [[Broadway]] the same year, giving An...
9: ..., the following year, for her role as [[Maria von Trapp]] in ''[[The Sound of Music]]'' ([[1965]]), an...
11: ...n of the Year]] by the [[Harvard University]] theatrical society. - Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
6: Steffi was introduced to tennis by her father [[Peter Graf]], a c...
8: ...d lost her first professional match 6-4, 6-0 to [[Tracy Austin]]. After the match, Austin dismissed Gr...
10: ...cticed for up to four hours a day, often heading straight from airports to practice courts. This narro...
12: ...his up with seven further tournament victories in 1986, and finished the year ranked World No. 3.
14: ...se tennis as her career, she was also a top 400 metre runner in her youth and could potentially have b... - Jackie Joyner-Kersee (2098 bytes)
4: ...re 7,000 points in a heptathlon event (during the 1986 [[Goodwill Games]]). She was inspired to compete ...
6: ...] in [[1984 Summer Olympics|1984]]. [[Sports Illustrated]] voted her the greatest female athlete of th...
8: ...had to return home when her 37-year-old mother contracted a rare form of [[meningitis]]. By the time s... - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
11: ... to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme levels of fitness and conditioning a hallmark ...
13: ...d Slams in 1975 - losing in the final of the [[Australian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[Fre...
17: ... Open where she lost a third-set tie-breaker to [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wimbledon and the Frenc...
19: ...74-match winning streak in 1984|74-match winning streak]] (a record for a professional) by beating Nav...
21: ...r]]. This was part of a record 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and [[1985... - Apple (20408 bytes)
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8: {{Taxobox_familia_entry | taxon = [[Rosaceae]]}} - Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
12: ...nd Vince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy counsel for a brief time before ...
20: ..., and the Children's Defense Fund. She also, from 1986 to 1992, served on the Board of Directors for Wal...
23: ...ated that $40,000 of her profits came from larger trades ordered by someone else and shifted to her ac...
25: ...go Mercantile Exchange rules governing [[margin]] trading. However, Melamed concluded that Clinton had...
27: ...id she made the decisions, Blair made most of the trades. Her situation was not unique for 1979, when...
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