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1. Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
   3: '''Eleanor of Aquitaine''' ([[Bordeaux]], [[France]], c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]...
   6: ...], [[Duke of Aquitaine]], and her mother was Ʈor de Chⴥllerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte...
   8: ... and richest of the provinces that would become modern [[France]], when her brother, William Aigret, d...
   10: ...uld remain independent of France, and Eleanor's eldest son would be both King of France and [[Dukes of...
   12: ...paign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader.
2. Elizabeth of Russia (14144 bytes)
   3: ...s foundation of the [[Imperial Academy of Arts|Academy of Fine Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg|St. Peters...
   7: ...[[Kolomenskoye]], near [[Moscow]], on the 18th of December [[1709]]. As her parents were not married a...
   9: ...luency than accuracy. From her earliest years she delighted every one by her extraordinary beauty and ...
   11: ...hat on the death of her mother (May 1727) and the departure to [[Holstein]] of her beloved sister Anne...
   15: ...banishment to [[Siberia]], minus his tongue, by order of the empress [[Anna of Russia|Anne]], consoled...
3. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
   5: ...ther, n饠Charlotte Hennessy, began taking in boarders, and through one of these lodgers Gladys, aged ...
   7: ...tten by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. DeMille]], who was also in the cast. The play was p...
   9: ... film era and the sound film era. She won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retir...
   11: ...s driving and Fairbanks was discussing the recent death of his mother, the clock stopped.
   13: ...March 28]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for enter...
4. Edna St. Vincent Millay (2636 bytes)
   3: ...cence]" (1912), and on the strength of it was awarded a scholarship to [[Vassar College]]. After her g...
   7: ...ied 43-year-old widower of [[Inez Milholland]], [[Eugene Jan Boissevain]], who greatly supported her caree...
   9: ...ore flak from the literary critics for supporting democracy than [[Ezra Pound]] did for championing fa...
   11: Eugene died in 1949 from lung cancer. Edna St. Vincent M...
5. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
   4: ...wig Boltzmann]]. After she obtained her doctorate degree, she went to [[Berlin]] in [[1907]] to study ...
   10: ...|Einstein]], who had the celebrity, to write President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] a warning letter, whi...
   12: ...[[1966]], when Hahn and Meitner together were awarded the [[Enrico Fermi Award]] with [[Fritz Stra߭an...
   17: ...h, (ed.) 1959. ''Trends in Atomic Physics: Essays Dedicated to Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue o...
6. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
   3: ... From a young age, Maria was surrounded by the students and lecturers from the University, intellectua...
   5: ...obel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]].
   7: ... is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
   11: ...1963]] saw both [[Maria]] and [[Hans Jensen]] awarded the Nobel Prize for [[Physics]] "for their disco...
   17: After her death in [[1972]], an award was set up by the [[Amer...
7. Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
   1: ... between [[1450]] and [[1500]] (Centre Historique des Archives Nationales, [[Paris]], AE II 2490).]]
   2: ...[[20th century]]; currently being a focus of considerable interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[C...
   7: ...e River|Meuse]] to [[Jacques D'Arc]] and Isabelle de Vouthon, a [[peasant]] family later granted [[nob...
   11: ...mb|''Jeanne d' Arc'' by Eugene Thirion ([[1876]]) depicts Joan's awe upon receiving a vision from the ...
   12: ...lies to the city of [[Orl顮s]], which had been under siege by the English since the previous October....
8. Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
   4: ...rvatoire de Musique et D飬amation'' by the [[Duc de Morny]] in [[1859]] for theatrical training.
   6: ...ver Europe and in the [[United States]]. She soon developed a reputation as a serious dramatic actress...
   8: ...pting herself, as well as modelling for [[Antonio de La Gandara]]. She was also to publish a series of...
   10: ... collapsed, largely due to the young actor's dependence on morphine.
   12: ...nd two biographical films in all. The latter included ''Sarah Bernhardt ࠂelle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a f...
9. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
   2: ...ur. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominations until 2003, ...
   5: ...d with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
   7: ...l for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eightie...
   8: ...and information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
   10: ...ay her degree was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ...
10. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    3: ...oren''' (born [[September 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actres...
    7: ...[Rome]]. Around this time, she also worked as a model in the ''fotoromanzi'' (weekly ilustrated romant...
    9: ...er acting career took off upon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
    11: ...ler in Pink Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
    13: ...eing the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English langua...
11. Science (19868 bytes)
    8: ...ce in terms of [[ontology]]: science attempts to identify what "things" in the world, their causal pow...
    10: ...the empiricist tradition, we must be careful to understand that "prediction" refers to the outcome of ...
    12: ...used interchangeably. Both have been subjected to devastating criticisms:
    14: ...demonstrated the impossibility of a theory-independent observation language, so the very notion of tes...
    15: ...steady accumulation of facts, as the empiricist model implies.
12. Thomas Jefferson (31127 bytes)
    1: {{Infobox President | name=Thomas Jefferson
    3: | image name=Seal_us_presdent.jpg
    4: | order=Third President
    7: | preceded=[[John Adams]]
    8: | succeeded=[[James Madison]]
13. Barbados (21887 bytes)
    3: ...re also dotted with large sugarcane estates and wide [[pastures]] with many good views to the sea.
    5: ...ntry in the world. The island is a major tourist destination.
    9: ...]], and [[Mapp's Cave]]. According to accounts by descendants of the aboriginal Arawak tribes on other...
    11: ...lly called the island '''Os Barbados''' ("The Bearded Ones"), upon seeing the appearance of the island...
    13: ...]] until independence in [[1966]], Barbados was under uninterrupted British control. Nevertheless, Bar...
14. Indiana (20194 bytes)
    23: DensityRank = 16^th |
    24: 2000Density = 65.46 |
    25: AdmittanceOrder = 19^th |
    26: AdmittanceDate = [[December 11]], [[1816]] |
    28: Latitude = 37?47'N to 41?46'N |
15. Pennsylvania (32594 bytes)
    10: ...rgestCity = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]] |
    11: Governor = [[Ed Rendell]] |
    21: DensityRank = 10^th |
    22: 2000Density = 105.80 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 2^nd |
16. Oregon (26551 bytes)
    21: DensityRank = 39^th |
    22: 2000Density = 13.76 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 33^rd |
    26: Latitude = 42°N to 46°15'N |
    27: Longitude = 116°45'W to 124°30'W |
17. Oklahoma (32092 bytes)
    23: DensityRank = 35^th |
    24: 2000Density = 19.4 |
    25: AdmittanceOrder = 46^th |
    28: Latitude = 33?35'N to 37?N |
    29: Longitude = 94?29'W to 103?W |
18. Minnesota (26682 bytes)
    21: DensityRank = 21^st |
    22: 2000Density = 23.86 |
    23: AdmittanceOrder = 32^nd |
    26: Latitude = 43?34'N to 49?23'50.26"N |
    27: Longitude = 89?34'W to 97?12'W |
19. Alexander the Great (42049 bytes)
    2: ...erTheGreat_Bust.jpg|thumb|right|[[Bust]] of Alexander III in the [[British Museum]].]]
    4: ... as the [[Middle-Persian]] literature as '''Alexander the Cursed''' due to his burning of the Persian ...
    6: ...ady during his lifetime, and especially after his death, his exploits inspired a literary tradition in...
    9: ...[Aristotle]] was Alexander's tutor; he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature a...
    11: ...racles]] through [[Caranus]] and his mother descended from [[Aeacus]] through [[Neoptolemus]] and [[Ac...
20. Ecosystem (2598 bytes)
    3: ...an]] in his classic study of a Minnesota lake (Lindeman, 1942).
    5: ...fferent elements that compose it. But others consider this vision or a self-standing unit with coheren...
    7: ...or a lake can be divided into several ecosystems, depending on the used scale.
    9: ...y leading to the collapse of an ecosystem and the death of many of its native species. The abstract n...
    23: *[[Eugene Odum]]

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