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1. Erik the Red (5731 bytes)
   2: ...ically]], Erik Torvaldsson (or Eiríkr Þorvaldsson).
   4: ...eenland and Erik the Red has been dubbed the genuine discoverer.
   6: ...ivory from tusks, and beached whales if they happened to be so lucky.
   8: ...ourney successfully; of the other eleven, some turned back, while others were lost at sea.
   10: ...ore [[Christopher Columbus]] made his fateful journey.
2. King Arthur (22450 bytes)
   1: ...ar leader") and High [[Medieval]] Welsh texts often call him ''amerauder'' ("[[emperor]]").
   2: ... in plate armour with visor raised and with jousting shield]]
   4: :''Main article: [[Historical basis for King Arthur]]''
   5: ... and the extent and kind of power he wielded continues to rage.
   7: ...e led were [[Britain|Britons]] or [[Armorica|Bretons]].
3. Middle Colonies (4101 bytes)
   1: ...bread basket" colonies because of their large grain export.
   3: ...Homes in the country could be made of logs and chinked with moss or mud.
   5: ... often mixed with spices, milk, and sugar which many people thought improved the taste.
   7: ...adder herb; brown came from the hulls of black walnuts.
   9: ...rs. Printing and publishing were also very important trades.
4. Cleopatra VII of Egypt (8634 bytes)
   4: ...y"; her full name, "Cleopatra Thea Philopator" means "the Goddess Cleopatra, Beloved of Her Father."
   6: ... co-rulers were king in title only, with her keeping the true authority.
   9: ...o-ruler as Ptolemy XV [[Caesarion]] ([[44 BC|44]]–[[30 BC]]).
   11: ...ored Cleopatra to her throne, with Ptolemy XIV as new co-ruler.
   13: ...ng his grand-nephew [[Augustus Caesar|Octavian]] instead.
5. Marguerite de Valois (5364 bytes)
   1: ...uerite_de_valois.jpg|thumb|250px|right|style=margin-left:1em|Marguerite de Valois]]
   2: ...rguerite_of_Navarre|the famous author of the same name]] who was also of the Valois family.
   4: ...f France|Charles IX]] and [[Henri III of France|Henri III]].
   6: ...d. Jeanne d'Albret died before the marriage was concluded.
   8: ...is sister's head, compelling her to nod in agreement.
6. Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
   1: {| align=right
   2: ...ight|140px|Mary I of Scotland; known as Mary, Queen of Scots]]
   5: {{House of Stewart(Scotland)}}
   7: ...perhaps the best known of the Scottish monarchs, in part because of the tragedy of her life.
   9: ... and whose reign coincided with that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
7. Denis Diderot (13048 bytes)
   1: ...right|''Portrait of Diderot'' by [[Louis-Michel van Loo]], 1767]]
   3:
   5: ... article and sermon about consumer desire have been based.
   7: ...have of the daily life of the philosophic circle in Paris.
   10: ...tary essay on the sufficiency of [[natural religion]].
8. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
   1: {| align=right
   2: ...Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Empress of India]]
   5: {{House of Hanover}}
   7: ... the first monarch to use the title [[Empress of India]].
   9: ...ver]]; her successor belonged to the [[House of Windsor|House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha]].
9. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
   1: ...lt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
   3: ...ve supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
   5: ...n honor of her extensive travels to promote [[human rights]].
   9: ...ranklin Delano Roosevelt|FDR]] for more information.)
   11: ...nch and Franklin is descended from the Jacobus branch.
10. Isabel Allende (3632 bytes)
    1: ...alvador Allende]], see [[Isabel Allende (politician)]]''
    3: [[Image:Isabelallende_writer.gif|thumb|Isabel Allende]]
    4: ...5 million copies and translated in 27 different languages.
    6: ... their three children to Chile, where they lived until 1953.
    8: ...er first husband, Miguel Fr�, whom she married in 1962.
11. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...on]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
    4: ...d with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[1970s]].
    6: ...wendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
    8: ...Booker Prize]]-winning novel ''[[The Blind Assassin]].''
    10: ...on of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    1: ...ge:KarenBlixen.jpeg|right|thumb|150px|Blixen in Kenya, 1918]]
    3: ...east in English, for her account of living in [[Kenya]], ''[[Out of Africa]]''.
    5: ... while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
    7: ... of the coffee market in 1931 forced her to abandon the project.
    9: ... She was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
13. George Eliot (6014 bytes)
    3: ...al England, are well known for their [[realism]] and psychological perspicacity.
    5: ...andals attending her relationship with [[George Henry Lewes]].
    8: ...eorge Henry Lewes]] in an extramarital cohabitation.
    10: ... in name only, while he made house solely with Evans.
    12: ...[Highgate Cemetery]] (East), [[Highgate]], [[London]].
14. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    1: ...Hurston-Zora-Neale-LOC.jpg|thumb|Zora Neale Hurston]]
    2: ...own work is most likely ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.
    5: ...ard College]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
    7: ...s, explainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
    9: ..._Neale_Hurston/Jonah's Gourd Vine|Jonah's Gourd Vine]]''):
15. Toni Morrison (2576 bytes)
    1: [[Image:morrison_toni.jpg|frame||Toni Morrison]]
    2: ...y Wofford''', [[February 18]], [[1931]] in [[Lorain, Ohio]].
    4: ...bes a slave who found freedom, but killed her infant daughter to save her from a life of slavery.
    6: ...lude Morrison's own work in the canon of [[American Literature]].
    8: ...ure]] in [[1993]], the first African-American woman to receive this prize.
16. Ouida (1938 bytes)
    1: ...the ''[[pen name]]'' of the [[England|English]] [[novelist]] '''Marie Louise de la Ram饧''.
    3: ...she lived in [[London]], but about [[1874]] she went to Italy, where she died.
    5: ...and died in poverty on [[January 25]], [[1908]], in [[Viareggio]], [[Italy]].
    8: ...hoes'') [http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/13912 Gutenberg etext of this book]
    9: * ''Bimbi, Stories for Children'' (1882)
17. Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
    1: ...nd literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
    3: ...omosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her lover [[Alice B. Toklas]]]]
    7: ...e]] in 1897 followed by two years at [[Johns Hopkins Medical School]].
    9: ...sso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
    11: ...ight of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]].
18. Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
    1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
    3: ... a significant figure in London literary society and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Gr...
    5: ==Life and work==
    7: .... Moore]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
    9: ...[Modernists]], though she disdained some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]].
19. Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
    1: .... Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
    3: <table align=right><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
    4: ...lahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
    6: ...er than African-American women because French women were pilots already.
    8: ...onality and her beauty to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause.
20. Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
    1: ...e first [[compiler]] for a computer programming language.
    3: ...thematics at Vassar in 1931; by [[1941]] she was an [[associate professor]].
    5: ...tinued to work on the development of the Mark II and the Mark III Calculators.
    7: ...mercially as the [[ARITH-MATIC]], [[MATH-MATIC]] and [[FLOW-MATIC]] compilers.
    9: ...It is fair to say that COBOL was based very much on her philosophy.

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