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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
71: ...[[George Ogden Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
105: ...na Abramovic|Abramovic, Marina]], (born 1946), performance artist - Eleanor of Aquitaine (11927 bytes)
3: ..., c. [[1124]] – [[March 31]], [[1204]] in [[Fontevrault]], [[Anjou]]) was one of the wealthiest ...
8: ...lace of [[courtly love]]. She was highly educated for a woman of the time, and knew how to read, how t...
10: ...kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for attaining a title, so William wrote up a will on...
14: ...hat it was really her directive. This did nothing for her popularity in [[Christendom]].
16: ...sade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces. For reasons unknown, likely the Germans' insistence ... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
2: ... <font size="+1">'''The Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell'''</font>
31: ... Douglas "Kim" Campbell, [[Queen's Privy Council for Canada|PC]], [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]''' (born [[...
33: She was never particularly fond of any of her given names, and consequently ado...
35: ...trustee. Campbell and Divinsky were divorced in [[1983]], and Campbell married [[Howard Eddy]] in [[1986...
39: ...]] party in [[1986]] and later unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the party. A few years later s... - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
7: ... councilman, state legislator, and Chief of Staff for U.S. Representative [[Andrew Jacobs]]. Her mothe...
9: ...o [[Seattle, Washington]] in [[1983]] to campaign for [[Alan Cranston]]. She then moved to Seattle sub...
19: ...d her a job as vice president of [[RealNetworks]] for marketing. She succeeded with the live broadcast...
23: ...re. By the end of the year the stock was selling for less than $9/share.
27: ...atory committee in October [[1999]] to mull a run for United States Senate against Democrat [[Deborah ... - Sonia Gandhi (4483 bytes)
3: ...onal Congress]] (Congress Party) and the widow of former Prime Minister [[Rajiv Gandhi]]. She is curre...
7: ...[1971]]). She adopted Indian [[citizenship]] in [[1983]].
11: ...irth, her declining to take up Indian citizenship for 15 years after her marriage and her lack of flue...
13: ...tipped to be the next [[Prime Minister of India]] following her party's surprise victory in the [[Indi...
15: ...stead took office as the chairperson of the newly formed [[National Advisory Council]] with the status... - Petra Kelly (3411 bytes)
4: ...er of [[Martin Luther King, Jr.]], she campaigned for [[Robert F. Kennedy]] and [[Hubert H. Humphrey]]...
6: ...n Commission]] ([[Brussels]], Belgium, [[1971]]-[[1983]]), she participated in numerous peace and enviro...
8: ...ber of the [[Bundestag]] (West German Parliament) for the Greens.
10: ...'Alternative Nobel Prize'') in [[1982]] ''"...for forging and implementing a new vision uniting ecolog...
12: ...s/JF93/hertsgaard.html], [http://peopleinaction.info/board/2/689.html]). - Mary Robinson (21825 bytes)
3: ...ive political office. She resigned the presidency four months ahead of the end of her term of office t...
7: ...'MARY ROBINSON<br><i>President of Ireland</i>'''</font></caption>
15: ...><td>'''[[Profession]]:'''</td><td>[[Barrister]], former Senator</td></tr>
23: ...holic Church|Roman Catholics]]. Robinson was therefore born into a family that was a historical mix of...
25: ...rbidden by church rules from studying in Trinity, founded by [[Elizabeth I of England|Queen Elizabeth ... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
2: |+ style="font-size:larger" | '''The Rt Hon. Margaret Thatcher...
27: ...tisation]] of government-owned industries. Even before coming to power she was nicknamed the '''Iron L...
29: ...]. Thatcher also dispatched a [[Royal Navy]] task force to retake the [[Falkland Islands]] from [[Arge...
31: ...atcherism|Thatcherite]] policies were responsible for this.
33: ...he [[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...ted for refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...68)|American Civil Rights Movement]], most famous for her refusal in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] sea...
6: ...e [[Highlander Folk School]], an education center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]].
8: ...ied, and convicted for [[disorderly conduct]] and for violating a local ordinance.
9: ...ight|The bus, now a museum exhibit at the [[Henry Ford Museum]]]] - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
2: ... and a spokeswoman for women's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]...
5: ...her in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Gloria cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
8: ...duated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[India]] for two years.
9: ... editor of ''Help!'' magazine and also freelanced for other magazines. In [[1963]] she became a full-t...
12: ... that also brought other notable feminists to the foreground. During this time she toured the country ... - Sojourner Truth (2794 bytes)
5: ... there in [[1829]], working as a domestic servant for over a decade and joining [[Elijah Pierson]] in ...
8: Later in life she became a noted speaker for both the [[Abolitionist]] movement and the [[wom...
13: ...ancipation Proclamation]] was issued to work with former slaves. She also met President [[Abraham Linc...
15: ...buried in Oak Hill Cemetery in Battle Creek. In [[1983]], she was inducted into the [[Michigan Women's H... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
4: ...second-wave feminism]]. She also has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian l...
6: Though widely known for her fiction, Atwood has also continually publish...
8: ...d's Tale]]'' (made into a movie and an opera), or for her [[Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind...
10: ...ition: ''[[The Handmaid's Tale]]'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] ...
22: :''[[Life Before Man]]'' ([[1979]]) - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
3: ... exclaimed that "nature had mistaken their sexes, for he ought to have been the woman."
5: ...when recounting events that occurred before her enforced status as a nun, but becomes especially defec...
11: * Anna Comnena, ''[http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad.html T...
13: ...irst Crusade]", ''Reading Medieval Studies'' v.9 (1983)
14: ...90f8b&ie=f.pdf Anna Comnena's Alexiad as a source for the Second Crusade?]", ''Journal of Medieval His... - Marie de France (1845 bytes)
9: ...Ages'', Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. ISBN 0198115881
10: - Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
2: ...n-American]] [[author]], born '''Chloe Anthony Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio...
4: ...n]] in [[1988]]. This story describes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to sav...
6: ...anon of English and comparative literature. Her efforts during the [[1960]]'s and [[1970]]'s helped br...
8: She won the National Books Critics Award for [[Song of Solomon (novel)|Song of Solomon]], a t...
12: ...ing-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas." - Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
1: ...[[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
5: ... the first American woman in space as part of a [[1983]] [[Space Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[...
7: ...a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]]. - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
7: ... practice, working with CIGNA Health Plans of California.
11: ...cal Engineering]], and fulfilled the requirements for an A.B. in African and Afro-American Studies. Sh...
13: ...arth We Share, (TM) an international science camp for students ages 12 to 16, that utilizes an experie...
15: ...ollege. The Institute was established as an agent for identifying, assessing, researching and implemen...
19: ... Magazine's (a Japanese Monthly) One of the Women for the Coming New Century (1991); Johnson Publicati... - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...tor]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
5: ...or]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end of the war she was discharged fr...
7: ...nd]] corporation and it was while she was working for them that her original [[compiler]] work was don...
9: ... the Navy where she worked on validation software for the programming language [[COBOL]] and its compi...
12: ...was recalled to active duty in August of [[1967]] for a six-month period that turned into an indefinit... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
7: ...function]]s (and thus "justifying" the enormous effort that was put into the theory).
9: ...ique'' Sonata]], to get his attention, but he was focused on the older sister Anna and he very probabl...
11: ...ge scribbles. Something of it seems to have stuck for when she later took calculus it came to her very...
13: ...], a self-taught eccentric with especial fondness for mathematics.
22: ..., Revolutionary</cite> (Rutgers University Press, 1983) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
5: ...niversity as adjunct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Bened...
7: ...ologist--one who wrote clearly and vividly enough for the general public to read and learn from her wo...
12: In the foreword to the ''Coming of Age in Samoa'', Mead's a...
13: :Courtesy, modesty, good manners, conformity to definite ethical standards are universal,...
16: ...es adolescence present a different picture?" She found that it did. (See pp. 6-7, American Museum of ...
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