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Annie Leibovitz (born 1949), portrait photographer, worked for Rolling Stone magazine and later Vanity Fair; Joanne Leonard (born 1940), photography of Oakland, Ca, autobiographical and family, and collage beinginpictures.com; Zoe Leonard (born 1961), photography of New York City, photos of the fictional Fae Richards for the film The Watermelon ...
State flag of Washington Location of Washington in the United States. The following is a list of notable people from Washington state.It includes people who were born, raised, or who live(d) in the U.S. state of Washington, along with those who are strongly associated/have significant relations with the state.
None of the top 10 girls' names from 2023 even made the top 40 list in the 1940s. Here are the 40 most popular baby boy and 40 most popular baby girl names of the 1940s, according to the Social ...
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
Sharon Dahlonega Raiford Bush, née Sharon Crews (born 1952), American television's first African-American female weather anchor of prime-time news [2] Howard Cosell (1918–1995), television sports journalist , star of ABC's Monday Night Football , commentator for many fights of Muhammad Ali ( Winston-Salem )
The 1940s (pronounced "nineteen-forties" and commonly abbreviated as "the '40s" or "the Forties") was a decade that began on January 1, 1940, and ended on December 31, 1949. Most of World War II took place in the first half of the decade, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe , Asia , and elsewhere.