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  1. History of China (45919 bytes)
    2: ...s of immigration and emigration merged to create the familiar image of Chinese culture and people toda...
    7: ...l center, where the first villages were founded; the most archaeologically significant of those was fo...
    9: == Into the Bronze Age ==
    14: ...三代; [[pinyin]]: sāndài) that the historical China begins to appear.
    18: ...1122 BC - 256 BC)|Zhou]] bronze vessel writings, the Xia remains poorly understood.
  2. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    3: ...eader in [[sustainable development]] and [[public health]].
    5: ...emale Prime Minister February - October [[1981]]; her cabinet was renowned internationally for having ...
    7: ...ice Strong]], who had been a prominent member of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
    9: ... by [[Thorbj?agland]]. She resigned as leader of the [[Det norske Arbeiderparti|Labour Party]] in [[19...
    11: ...cientific American]] as their ''Policy Leader of the Year'' for coordinating a rapid worldwide respons...
  3. Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
    27: ...d African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (after [[Madeleine Albright]]) to se...
    29: ...confirmed her nomination by a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
    31: ...) and the first female to have been appointed to the post.
    34: ...d on weekends; Rice's mother, Angelena, was a teacher." [http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?021014...
    35: ...University of Denver. Her name is a variation on the [[Italian]] musical term "con dolcezza" which is ...
  4. Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
    1: ...nder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation of church and state]].
    4: ... another son (Jon Garth Murray) by a different father.
    6: ==An American atheist==
    7: ...ife'' magazine]] referred to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
    9: ...rst [[CEO]] before later handing the office on to her son Jon Garth.
  5. Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
    2: ...n's rights. She is the founder and original publisher of ''[[Ms. magazine]]''.
    5: ...a cared for her ill mother and helped to support them both.
    8: ...ive, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s campaign. She graduated in [[1956]] and left to study in [[Indi...
    9: ...e [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous undercover expose in working as a [[Pla...
    12: ...nd. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Florync...
  6. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: :''For the Chilean politician and daughter of [[Salvador All...
    4: ...ges. She is one of the most popular novelists in the world today, selling over 35 million copies and t...
    6: ...ocated with their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
    8: ...re she met her first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
    10: ... returned to Chile, and her son Nicolá³ was born there that year.
  7. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...h]]. She is best known, at least in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Afric...
    5: ...ile serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
    7: ... the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
    9: ...eudonym of ''Pierre Andrezel''. She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    11: ... for many years from [[syphilis]] contracted from her husband.
  8. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    4: ...=[[Novelist]] and [[Philosopher]], best known for her [[philosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objec...
    11: ... goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
    13: ...wn sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
    14: ...om others by physical force, or impose ideas on others by physical force.
    19: ...h she claims to have been present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
  9. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    4: ...41]], she quit her work as a lawyer to consecrate herself to literature.
    6: ...of the figures most associated with the trend of the [[nouveau roman]].
    12: * ''The Planetarium'', [[1959]]
    13: * ''The Golden Fruit'', [[1963]]
  10. Sally Ride (1826 bytes)
    1: ...nd [[Svetlana Savitskaya]] ([[1982]]), both from the former [[Soviet Union]].
    5: ... Shuttle]] ''[[Challenger]]'' crew of [[STS-7]]. She has cumulatively spent more than 343 hours in spa...
    7: ...rol. Currently she is a professor of physics at the [[University of California, San Diego]].
    9: ...s, the [[STS-51-L|''Challenger'' explosion]] and the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster]].
    11: ...s on television, in shows or commercials. She is the author of several children's books about space ex...
  11. Valentina Tereshkova (2387 bytes)
    3: ...n [[outer space|space]], aboard [[Vostok 6]] in [[1963]].
    5: ...Aeroclub]]. In [[1962]] she was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than four hun...
    7: ...tlana Savitskaya]] flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's cosmonaut group ever flew.
    9: ...] she was retired from the [[VVS|air force]] and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order.
    11: ...2]], though their marriage collapsed long before. Her second husband, Dr. Shaposhnikov died in [[1999]...
  12. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    1: ...any]], now part of [[Poland]]) and became one of the few women to receive a [[Nobel Prize in Physics]]...
    3: ...e assistant of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
    5: ...eceived a Nobel Prize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jen...
    7: ...self is spinning around the Sun. Maria described the idea elegantly:
    9: ...dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, others twirl counterclockwise."
  13. Josephine Baker (5957 bytes)
    3: ...nd singer, sometimes known as "The Black Venus." She became a [[France|French]] [[citizen]] in [[1937]...
    5: ...during the [[Harlem Renaissance]], performing at the [[Plantation Club]].
    7: ...ans, adding yet another element of excitement to the show.
    9: ... also starred in several successful films, among them ''Zouzou'' (1934) and ''Princesse Tamtam'' (1935...
    11: ...ot legally binding). At this time she also scored her greatest song hit "''J'ai deux amours''" (1931) ...
  14. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: ...llafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
    2: ...rn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
    4: ...raised in [[Yonkers, New York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
    6: ...ry rhyme]], "[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
    8: ... the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
  15. Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
    2: ...s from 1968-1975) and she is normally ranked as the greatest female vocalist ever by such industry pu...
    6: ...ults never gave full rein to Franklin's talents. Her greatest and most innovative work was yet to com...
    8: ...Atlantic, they just sat me down at the piano and the hits started coming."
    10: ...charts - the best result being a number four with her version of [[Burt Bacharach]]'s ''"I Say a Littl...
    12: ...er added three more Grammies in this category in the [[1980s]].
  16. Sofia Gubaidulina (8325 bytes)
    3: ...ay Peyko until 1959, and then with Shebalin until 1963.
    5: ...final examination encouraged her to continue down her "mistaken path".
    7: ...group with fellow composers Victor Suslin and Vyacheslav Artyomov.
    9: ...a homage to [[T. S. Eliot]], using the text from the poet's spiritual masterpiece ''[[Four Quartets]]'...
    11: ...diptych" on the death and resurrection of Christ, her largest work to date.
  17. Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
    1: ...cert.jpg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']...
    2: ...nctive voice. Joplin released four [[album]]s as the frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a p...
    4: ...n]], though she never completed a degree. There, she began singing blues and [[folk music]] with frien...
    6: ... her career, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
    8: ...gles led to the album being withheld until after their subsequent success.
  18. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    3: ...d to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
    7: ..."Tori," after a friend of a friend told her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen.
    10: ... for the film [[China O'Brien]]; in the credits, the song is attributed to a band called "Tess Makes G...
    13: ...ndtrack. A remix of the song is also included on the soundtrack.
    15: ===''Under The Pink''===
  19. Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
    3: ...ugust]] [[1963]] - [[25 July]] [[2001]]), aka '''The Bandit Queen''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turn...
    5: ...he had accumulated her own gang, with herself as the leader.
    7: ... Behmai Massacre. She denied any involvement in the massacre.
    9: ...ty]]. As a part of this arrangement, in [[1983]] she surrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 p...
    11: ...6]] she was elected to Parliament as a member of the [[Samajwadi Party]].
  20. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    1: ...-03.jpg|thumb|Mother Teresa was born '''Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu''']]
    2: ...ion page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mother-teresa-03.jpg for rationale -->
    4: ...the [[Missionaries of Charity]] whose work among the [[poverty|poor]] of Calcutta (later renamed [[Kol...
    6: ...[[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], hence she may be properly called '''Blessed Teresa''' by [[...
    9: ...ost Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of their native Macedonia are [[Macedonian Orthodox Chur...

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