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- Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...ious disappearance during a flight over the [[Pacific Ocean]].
6: ...ility to provide for his family, Amelia spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mothe...
8: ...om some of her family, in 1922 Earhart bought her first [[airplane]], a [[Kinner Airstar]]. After her ...
10: ...the [[White House]]. From then on, flying was the fixture of Earhart's life. She placed third at the C...
16: ...he took delivery of a [[Lockheed 10E]] "Electra," financed by [[Purdue University]], she started plann... - Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
8: ..., which is now known as the [[Pushkin Museum]] of Fine Arts. Tsvetaeva's mother, Maria Alexandrovna Me...
10: ...family. He was also still deeply in love with his first wife; he would never get over her. She, for he...
12: ...bourgeois Muscovite life, Marina was able for the first time to run free, climb cliffs, and vent her i...
14: ...ksandr Blok]] were capable of generating. Her own first collection of poems, ''Evening Album'', was se...
18: ...conducted an affair with the [[lesbian]] poet [[Sofia Parnok]], who was 9 years older than Tsvetaeva. ... - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
3: ...tween the [[world war]]s, Woolf was a significant figure in London literary society and a member of th...
7: ...], following the death of her mother, she had the first of several [[nervous breakdown]]s. She later i...
9: ...[[civil servant]] and [[political theorist]]. Her first novel, ''The Voyage Out'', was published in [[...
13: ... ambitious work, "Between the Acts" sums and magnifies Woolf's chief preoccupations: transformation of...
15: ...ven me the greatest possible happiness... I can't fight it any longer, I know that I am spoiling your ... - Hanna Reitsch (3751 bytes)
4: ...ider]] aerobatic and endurance records, being the first woman to fly the Alps in a glider, and was rat...
6: ...ke-Wulf Fw 61|Focke-Achgelis Fa 61]], the world's first [[helicopter]]. This made her a star of the Na...
8: ... one of only two women awarded the [[Iron Cross]] First Class during world War 2, and the only woman a...
10: ...ved in testing the [[V-1 Flying Bomb]], which was fitted with a cockpit in order to be used during gli...
12: ...scaped Berlin through heavy Russian anti-aircraft fire. - Grace Hopper (7469 bytes)
1: ...he [[Mark I Calculator]] and the developer of the first [[compiler]] for a computer programming langua...
3: ...o subjects in [[1930]] and in [[1934]] became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. Her d...
5: ...Aiken]] on the [[Mark I Calculator]]. She was the first person to write a program for it. At the end ...
7: ... The compiler was known as the A compiler and its first version was [[A-0]]. Later versions were rele...
9: ... language [[COBOL]] and its compiler. COBOL was defined by the [[CODASYL]] committee which extended he... - Sofia Kovalevskaya (3306 bytes)
3: ...lievich Kriukovskoi]] (1800-1874), an artillery officer of Belarusian ("''Polish''") descent. He manag...
5: ...) and had more education and "appreciation of the finer things" than her husband.
7: Sofia Kovalevskaya contributed to the understanding of...
11: ...aper for one house, used his old notes instead. Sofia spent many hours of childhood scrutinising the s...
22: ...n Hibner Koblitz: <cite>A Convergence of Lives: Sofia Kovalevskaia -- Scientist, Writer, Revolutionary... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
1: ...ht|thumb|''Famed American [[nurse]] Clara Barton, first president of the [[American Red Cross]]'']]
2: ...nfusion with her date of birth, as her birth certificate says the 25th, while her family members say t...
6: ...se breeder. Her mother, Sarah Barton, managed the household. She was the baby of the family. Her four bro...
12: ...cation, and despite opposition, set up one of the first free public schools in the state.
14: ...nited States Patent and Trademark Office|Patent Office]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] where she learned the... - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
5: ...he baton of [[Tullio Serafin]]. Together with Serafin, Callas subsequently recorded and performed many...
7: ...opolitan Opera]], [[Dallas Opera]], [[Royal Opera House]], [[Mexico]]'s [[Palacio de las Bellas Artes]], ...
13: ...artbroken ("First I lost my voice, then I lost my figure and then I lost Onassis," she once said), Cal...
15: ...ate [[2004]], opera and film director [[Franco Zeffirelli]] made a bizarre claim that Callas may have ...
16: ...w.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/zeffirelli.%20.callas%20was%20murdered.] - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Aretha Franklin (7875 bytes)
2: ...gan]]. On [[January 3]], [[1987]] she became the first woman to be inducted into the [[Rock and Roll ...
6: ...roit, Michigan|Detroit]]-area church and made her first recordings at the age 14. She signed with [[C...
10: ... [[Sam Cooke]] and [[The Drifters]]. ''''Live at Fillmore West'''' and ''''Amazing Grace'''' were two...
12: ... Natural Woman", "Think", "Baby I Love You", "The House That Jack Built", and "Respect",'' a cover of an ...
16: ... working with artists of the stature of Curtis Mayfield, popularity and critical success waned during ... - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
3: ...all time. Born '''Eleanora Fagan''', she had a difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
7: ...st who would play for [[Fletcher Henderson]], was fifteen. Billie Holiday's parents married when she w...
9: ...ternity. This stems from a copy of her birth certificate in Baltimore archives that lists the father a...
11: ==First success==
14: ...eral sessions for her with [[Benny Goodman]]; her first-ever recording was "Your Mother's Son-In-Law" ... - Joni Mitchell (9996 bytes)
5: ... in [[1965]]. She performed frequently in coffee houses and [[folk clubs]] and became well known for her...
7: ...sented a commercial breakthrough, containing her first two songs widely adopted by other artists, "Ch...
9: ...y songs focusing on the dichotomy between the benefits of her stardom and its costs, both in terms of ...
13: ...althy ("The Hissing of Summer Lawns" and "Harry's House"). The album was stylistically diverse, with com...
17: ... died before the project was completed. Mitchell finished the tracks with a band featuring Pastorius,... - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
6: ...u Oughta Know", led Morissette to be labeled the "first lady of rage", though the album itself contain...
14: In that same year, Morissette wrote her first song, "Fate Stay With Me", at the age of 9:
26: :''And your fake identification''
36: ...t double [[RIAA certification|platinum]], and its first single, "Too Hot", reached the Top 10 on the C...
42: ...f [[Ottawa]] to [[Toronto]]. Living alone for the first time in her life, Morissette met with a bevy o... - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
5: ...fered vicious abuse from many assailants, she was finally driven to take up the life of a ''[[dacoity|...
7: ...trodden, after the fashion of [[Robin Hood]]. She first came to national and international attention i...
9: ...he government of [[Indira Gandhi]] and the police finally made a deal with her that she and members of...
13: ..., she was gunned down by four men in front of her house in [[New Delhi]]. She is survived by her husband,...
15: ...bout her life up through her 1983 surrender. She fiercely disputed its accuracy and fought to get it ... - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
1: ...ish [[legend]] but was in fact a larger than life figure from [[16th century]] [[Irish History]].
7: ... great seafaring family and charged all those who fished off their coasts. Their leader bore the ancie...
11: ...d took up residence at the family castle or tower-house in [[Clare Island]].
22: ...d and Grace's power was steadily encroached upon. Finally, when two of her sons and her brother were t... - Ching Shih (2491 bytes)
2: '''Ching Shih''' [[1775]]-[[1844]] first became known as a [[China|Chinese]] [[prostitu...
8: ...0 in [[1844]], running a [[brothel]] and gambling house in [[Guangzhou]]. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
15: ...lling stations at a rate far outpacing the ten to fifteen bank robberies attributed to him and the Bar...
19: ...er imprisoned husband, goes over to her brother's house and meets a charming young fellow. Nobody thought...
23: ... was there, at Eastham Camp 1, that it appears he first killed another man — a fellow prisoner n...
25: ...hers. He recruited help, and set about arming and financing the operation.
27: ...uation ended poorly, perhaps because the gang was finally reduced to stealing [[mule]]s for transporta... - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
6: ...ns accept that Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure, even if they accept nothing or almost nothin...
8: ... [[Eastern Orthodox]] traditions built around the figure of Mary, and the centuries of Marian cult der...
13: ...mp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10) commonly known as the ''[[Magnificat]]''. After three months Mary returned to her ...
17: ...is little mention of Mary in the Gospels until we find her at the cross along with her sister Mary, an...
31: ...and Eastern Orthodox tradition, between three and fifteen years after Christ's Ascension, in either Je... - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
6: ... the tomb. The risen Lord appeared to her, but at first she knew him not. His utterance of her name "M...
12: ...ded to be defended. All of these manuscripts were first discovered and published between [[1938]] and ...
27: Tradition as early as the 3rd century identified as Mary Magdalene the woman who was a sinner in...
28: ...she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
31: ...ade in the New Testament, nor is the woman in the house of the Pharisee given a name, the idea that Mary ...
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