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- Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...' ([[May 11]], [[1906]] - [[August 7]], [[1980]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix...
4: ...orking as a hairdresser until she wound up in [[New York City]]. There, she used her looks and drivin...
6: ...nd [[1954]] the [[Associated Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endor...
10: ...e up a story about being adopted to avoid dealing with the reality of her estranged and impoverished ... - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...ute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
5: ...] at the [[Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...]th Marie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ...ative country, and the other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity.
11: ...nri Becquerel]]". She was the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize. - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
1: ...:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|180px|thumb|right|Rosalind Franklin]]
2: ...ish [[physical chemist]] and [[crystallographer]] who made important contributions to the understandi...
5: ...er they helped settle Jewish refugees from Europe who had escaped the ''Nazis''.
8: ...spark the idea of high-strength carbon fibres and was the basis of her doctoral degree in physical ch...
9: ..., even though he had been equally involved in the work. It seemed she had little choice but to return... - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...was a British [[scientist]], born Dorothy Mary Crowfoot in [[Cairo]].
3: ...px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Royal Society, Lond...
5: ...l structure]] of [[penicillin]] in the [[1940s]], which enabled it to be manufactured synthetically; ...
7: ...[[Order of Merit]], filling the vacancy left by [[Winston Churchill]].
17: *Johnson, Louise N. (FRS), and David Phillips (''Nature Structural Biology'' 1: 573-576, 1994) - Margaret Mead (11387 bytes)
1: [[Image:Margaret_Mead.jpg|frame|Margaret Mead]]
3: ...16]], [[1901]] – [[November 15]], [[1978]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[cultural anthro...
5: ...sity as adjunct professor starting in 1954. Following the example of her instructor [[Ruth Benedict]...
7: ...for the general public to read and learn from her works--remains firm.
9: She died in [[New York]] on [[15 November]] [[1978]], aged 76. - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...came to be known as ''The Lady with the Lamp'', was the pioneer of modern [[nurse|nursing]]. Each y...
7: ...an of her status, which was to become an obedient wife.
9: ...y in [[1845]], evoking intense anger and distress from her family, particularly her mother.
11: ... to her active role in the reform of the [[Poor Laws]], extending far beyond the provision of medical...
13: ...r of [[Nun|Catholic sisters]] in [[Germany]], and was greatly impressed by the quality of medical car... - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
1: ...heryl_Crow.jpg|thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
3: ...[[blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer.
7: ...llowed to make eye contact with the singer except when on stage.
9: ...ether and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...cord of the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ... the Christian Gospels. Mary ([[Miriam]] in Hebrew, Mariam in Greek) is mentioned by name in three o...
8: ...of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult derived from the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christian chu...
13: ...r strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattl...
15: ... [[Jerusalem]] when twelve years of age, where he was found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:4...
17: ...gdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other women (John 19:26). Mary cradling the dead body of... - Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
1: ...egard.jpg|right|framed|A medieval illumination showing Hildegard von Bingen and the monk Volmar]]
3: ...16]] [[1098]] – [[September 17]], [[1179]]) was a [[German people|German]] [[abbess]], [[Monast...
6: ... community, and eventually moved the group to a new [[monastery]] on the Rupertsberg at Bingen on the...
8: ...members of her order after falling physically ill from carrying the unspoken burden.
10: ==The Awakening== - Mata Hari (3970 bytes)
1: ...s with ''[[femme fatale]]'' during [[World War I|WWI]].]]
3: ...onvicted and executed as a [[spy]] during [[World War I]].
5: ...was also a [[courtesan]] who may have had affairs with many military officers and politicians.
7: ... Mata Hari was probably a low level agent for the French and the Germans, but there is no evidence tha...
9: ...ely if that was true. Another rumor claims she blew a [[kiss]] to her killers before the firing began... - Krystyna Skarbek (11133 bytes)
3: ...tion's policy of recruiting increasing numbers of women.
7: ...]]), and the couple soon moved to [[British East Africa]].
9: ...nti-tank]] [[rifle]] which was fated never to see wartime service.
11: ...].) Krystyna and Kowerski made good their escape from Hungary via the [[Balkans]] and [[Turkey]].
13: ...rs were viewed by the exile Poles and the British with disfavor. - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
1: [[Image:MarilynMonroe.jpg|right|frame|Marilyn Monroe]]
2: ...nce, stunning good looks and mysterious [[death]] would make her a perennial [[sex symbol]] and later...
4: ...rated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to say the least.
6: ... and more have gone for the theory that Mortensen was in fact her true father.
8: ...ered adopting her, which they could not have done without Gladys's consent. - Eliska Junkova (2642 bytes)
1: '''Eliška Junková''', also known as '''Elizabeth Junek''', born [[November 16]], ...
4: ... wheel. She immediately began winning and by 1926 was good enough to compete in races around Europe a...
6: ...making her the only woman in history to have ever won a Grand Prix race.
8: ...anged places with him when he went off course and was killed instantly. Devastated, she gave up racin...
10: ...[Hellé Nice]], her great female counterpart from France, only recently has Junková's pioneering effo... - Iris (plant) (13374 bytes)
2: ...age:A white iris (small).jpg|240px]]| caption = A white iris}}
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
15: ...ging in colour from gold, copper-red or yellow to white, blue, blue-violet, lavender, tan, maroon and...
16: ...n it. It is also applied to various subdivisions within the genus. [[Image:Iris02.jpg|232px|thumb|le...
17: ...mage:Iris.JPG|232px|thumb|right|White-purple-yellow Dutch iris]] - Banksia (1867 bytes)
5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
15: ...prostrate miniatures and the largest are fully-grown trees.
17: ...seasons. Any fertilised flowers become knobbly brown seedpods during this time.
19: ...pot and Cuddlepie]] - the [[Big Bad Banksia Men]] were the [[villain]]s of her tales. - Gastrointestinal tract (16596 bytes)
2: ...ct energy and nutrients, and expels the remaining waste.
4: The GI tract differs substantially from animal to animal. For instance, some animals h...
12: ...res]] long (25 [[feet]]) and consists of the following components:
16: *[[Stomach]], which includes the [[antrum]] and [[pylorus]]
17: *'''Bowel or [[Intestine]]''': - Brain (22060 bytes)
5: ...icals called [[neurotransmitter]]s across gaps known as [[synapse]]s. Small invertebrates such as [[i...
8: ===Brains in nature===
9: ...s ''circumesophageal lobes'' that are flanked by two large optical lobes on the left and right (Butle...
11: ...more surface area for a greater number of neurons while keeping the volume of the brain compact enoug...
14: .... Often in these cases, more damage is caused by swelling, or [[edema]], than by the impact itself. ... - Heart (10132 bytes)
3: ...he term ''cardiac'' means "related to the heart", from the [[Greek language|Greek]] ''kardia'' (&kappa...
7: ...er ''atria'' (singular: ''atrium'') and the two lower ''ventricles''.
9: ...maintain coordinated unidirectional flow of blood from the atria to the ventricles.
11: ...mpared with the walls of the atria, the ventricle walls are thicker.
13: ...ened heart. White arrows indicate normal blood flow. ([[Media:Heart.svg|SVG version]])]] - Liver (11441 bytes)
1: ... or ''hepatic'' from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word for liver, ''hepar''.
5: ... 2.5 [[kilogram]]s, and is a soft, reddish-brown "wedge-shaped" organ. It is the largest organ in the...
7: ...liac trunk]]. The portal vein brings venous blood from the digestive tract, so that the liver can proc...
9: ...uct. The cystic duct (from the gallbladder) joins with the common hepatic duct to form the common bil...
11: ...e as 25% of remaining liver can regenerate into a whole liver again. - Nose (3059 bytes)
2: ..., air next passes through the [[pharynx]], shared with the digestive system, and then into the rest o...
4: ...and/or humidifying it) and by reclaiming moisture from the air before it is exhaled (as occurs most ef...
6: ...by the air contact [[olfactory receptor neuron]]s which transduce the features of the molecule into e...
8: ...streamlined body shape and the ability to breathe while mostly submerged. Conversely, the [[elephant]...
10: ...e nose, including the nose and [[maxilla]], is known to doctors as the [[danger triangle of the face]...
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