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- Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...eate]]. She founded the [[Curie Institute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...cs]] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...arie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...]) and then two new [[chemical element]]s. The first they named [[polonium]] after Marie's native coun...
11: ...y Professor [[Henri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
2: ...nt contributions to the understanding of the fine structures of [[coal]], [[DNA]] and [[viruses]].
5: ... in the Palestine. Dr Franklin was educated at St Paul's Girls' School where she excelled in science and...
8: ...the basis of her doctoral degree in physical chemistry that she earned in 1945.
9: ...aving Paris, she considered changing her mind and staying. Unfortunately, Jacques Mering, her mentor, ...
12: ...een taken over by a newcomer. This was not a good start to the relationship which went progressively d... - Emmy Noether (2715 bytes)
1: ...ating insights that she used to develop elegant abstractions which she formalized beautifully.
5: ...[[Germany]]. Her father, [[Max Noether]], was a distinguished mathematician and a professor at [[Erlan...
6: ...hematics — as a teenager she was more interested in music and dancing.
8: She received her doctorate in [[1907]] under [[Paul Gordan]], and rapidly built a world-wide reputati...
9: ... do not see that the sex of the candidate is against - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...of James Franck. The couple moved to the [[United States]], Mayer's home country.
5: ...ize in Physics in [[1963]] together with [[Eugene Paul Wigner]] and [[J. Hans D. Jensen ]].
7: ...alled "[[Magic Numbers]]". Maria postulated, against the received wisdom of the time, that the nucleus...
11: ...] "for their discoveries concerning nuclear shell structure". Maria was quoted as saying, "winning the...
13: ...ward Teller]] that would be used for Teller's investigations into the possibility of a [[hydrogen bomb... - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...pg|right|thumb|Janis Joplin on the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ...frontwoman for several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ...Austin|University of Texas]] in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]], though she never completed a degree. There, ...
6: ...nt was still in its infancy at this time - Joplin styled herself in part after her female blues heroin...
8: ...]]. The band signed a deal with independent [[Mainstream Records]] and recorded an eponymously titled ... - Miriam Makeba (1140 bytes)
1: ...sed further controversy, especially in the United States. [[Nelson Mandela]] finally made her come bac...
3: ...fter she published her autobiography ''Makeba: My Story''. In [[2002]], she shared the [[Polar Music P...
5: ...38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans (see [[List of South Africans]]). - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...nfluence of "You Oughta Know" is readily seen almost a decade later in the songwriting, singing, and a...
12: ...nt to meet you one day and I want to be famous, just like you."''
14: ...same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
21: ...wa, her hometown. Morissette became a recurring cast member, but left after one season.
32: ...fornia|Los Angeles]] to appear on the show, but lost after one round. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...re of the [[Lake of Tiberias]]. The life of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...e tomb. The risen Lord appeared to her, but at first she knew him not. His utterance of her name "Mary...
8: This is the last entry in the canonical New Testament regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned ... - Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
4: '''Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta''' ([[August 27]] [[1910]] – [[September 5]] [[1997]]) w...
6: ...he was [[Beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] in [[October 2003]], hence she may be proper...
9: ... south Kosovar city of [[Prizren]], even though most Albanians are [[Muslim]] and the majority of thei...
11: ...eresa permission to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of...
13: ...he made her first vows there, choosing the name Sister Mary Teresa in honour of [[Teresa of Avila]] an... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: .... Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook ''Mastering the Art of French Cooking'' and the televisi...
6: ...s]] (OSS) after being turned down by the [[United States Navy | Navy]] for being too tall.
8: ...f Meritorious Civilian Service as head of the Registry of the OSS Secretariat.
10: ...r. Child as an exhibits officer with the [[United States Information Agency | U.S. Information Agency]...
12: == Post-war France == - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
3: ...vis''', was an [[Academy Award]] winning [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]].
5: ...l]] home because she was "too shy"), and became a star.
7: ... ''[[The Man Who Played God]]'', and she became a star in ''[[Of Human Bondage]]''. The Motion Picture...
9: ...[[1941]], when she resigned. Her career began to stagnate through the [[1940s]], but her performance ...
13: ...nd her ''[[Now, Voyager]]'' ([[1942]]) co-star, [[Paul Henreid]], were reunited not as on-screen lovers,... - Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
2: ...]] in [[Los Angeles, California]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actress]]. Farrow was born '''M...
5: ...natra served her divorce papers in front of the cast and crew. The [[divorce]] came as a surprise to M...
9: ...having witnessed Allen abusing one of their youngest adopted children. Allen became infamously tainted...
16: ...amous mothers and their children modeling the latest fashions for families.
17: * Screen-tested for the role of Liesel Von Trapp in ''[[The Sou... - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
3: ...unt''' (born [[15 June]] [[1963]]) is an [[United States|American]] [[actor|actress]]. She was born i...
5: Hunt co-starred with [[Paul Reiser]] in the television [[Situation comedy|sit...
7: ...on]]), for which she won an [[Academy Award for Best Actress]] in [[1998]].
9: In 1998, Hunt became the first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Academy ...
20: *''[[Cast Away]]'' (2000) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
3: ...ptember 20]], [[1934]]) is considered to be the most famous [[Italy|Italian]] actress of all time and,...
7: ...ia Lazzaro' and took part in regional beauty contests, were she won several prizes and was discovered ...
9: ...pon meeting [[Vittorio De Sica]] and [[Marcello Mastroianni]] in [[1954]].
11: ...ghts]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ...ctor to win a major category [[Academy Award]] (Best Actress) for a non-English language performance. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: ...zzling screen presence, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex ...
4: ...y, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to say the least.
6: ...Charles Stanley Gifford]], a [[salesman]] for the studio where Marilyn's mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe B...
8: ...her autobiography, ''My Story'', [[ghostwriter|ghostwritten]] by [[Ben Hecht]], Marilyn said she thoug...
10: ... and laughing" as she was forcibly removed to the State Mental Hospital in [[Norwalk, California|Norwa... - Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
3: ...], [[singer]], and [[author]], best known for her starring roles in the [[musical film]]s ''[[Mary Pop...
5: ... in the musical, she starred in [[Rodgers & Hammerstein]]'s television adaptation of ''[[Cinderella]]'...
7: ...ght sensation. In [[1961]], the composers again cast her in a period musical: as [[Guenevere]] in ''[[...
9: ...[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Torn Curtain]]'' with [[Paul Newman]] (both in [[1966]]), and ''[[Thoroughly M...
11: ...Burnett]]. In [[1983]], she was chosen as the [[Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year]] by the [[Harvard Uni... - Dorothy Hamill (1348 bytes)
1: ... rest of her childhood. She had a brother and a sister.
3: ...er ice skates were too big so her grandmother put stuffing in the toe to make them fit. She asked her ...
5: ...ng her Olympic performance started a brief fad. Mostly everyone loved it.
7: ...eadliner from 1977-84; she bought the financially-strapped Ice Capades in [[1993]], but sold it to [[P...
11: She was married to [[Dean Paul Martin]]. - Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
3: ...from Czechoslovakia, she defected to the [[United States]] in [[1975]] and became a US citizen in [[19...
5: ...t tennis coach. Martina then took the name of her stepfather (adding the feminine "ová").
9: ... aged 16, she turned professional. She won her first professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]...
11: ...belled the “Great Wide Hope” by the [[journalist]] [[Bud Collins]]), but her determination to reac...
13: ...nd Slams in 1975 - losing in the final of the [[Australian Open]] to [[Evonne Goolagong]] and the [[Fr... - Rose (15436 bytes)
21: ...ild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a grou...
23: ... [[deciduous]], but a few (particularly in southeast [[Asia]]) are [[evergreen]] or nearly so.
27: ...), are very rich in [[vitamin C]], among the richest sources of any plant. The hips are eaten by fruit...
29: ...d by [[deer]]. A few species of roses only have vestigial thorns that have no points.
31: ...m tuberculatum''), a species of [[Rust (fungus)|Rust fungus]], which can defoliate the plant. More com... - Brain (22060 bytes)
1: ...[[invertebrate]] [[central nervous system]]. In most animals, the brain is located in the [[Head (anat...
3: ...[[movement]], [[behavior]] and [[homeostasis|homeostatic]] body functions such as heartbeat, blood pre...
9: ... the body of the animal. The arthropod brain consists of large ''optical lobes'' behind each [[eye]] f...
11: ...ions of the brain, called ''gyri'', are characteristic of animals with more advanced brains. These co...
14: ...ling, or [[edema]], than by the impact itself. [[Stroke]], caused by blockage of [[blood vessel]]s in...
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