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  1. Reese Witherspoon (2585 bytes)
    4: ==Biography==
    5: ...herspoon]], signer of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]] and founder of [[Princeton Uni...
    9: ...roles and has won Best Actress awards from the National Society of Film Critics and the Online Film Cr...
    22: *''[[Cruel Intentions]]'' (1999)
    23: *''[[Election]]'' (1999)
  2. Laila Ali (3660 bytes)
    5: ...f the [[International Boxing Hall Of Fame]] induction weekend's activities.
    7: ...ockout]] win over her division's other world champion, [[Valerie Mahfood]] in [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]...
    11: Laila Ali would have begun [[2004]] by fighting the [[WBA]] women's number 2 ranked...
    13: ...[Nikki Eplion]] after four rounds. Ali dropped Eplion four times before the fight was stopped.
    17: ...ighter against whom she had to cancel a fight previously, by a knockout in three rounds, at [[Atlanta,...
  3. Fanny Blankers-Koen (14562 bytes)
    3: ...' ([[April 26]], [[1918]]–[[January 25]], [[2004]]) was a [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[athletics|athlet...
    5: ...ers-Koen set several world records during that period, in events as diverse as the [[long jump]], the ...
    7: ...e [[International Association of Athletics Federations]] (IAAF).
    13: ...ointment, but in her third race, she set a new National Record in the 800 [[metre|m]]. Fanny Koen soon...
    17: ...eak of [[World War II]] put a stop to the preparations. The Olympics were formally cancelled on May 2,...
  4. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    6: ...larity, and in [[1982]] she won the European Championships 12s and 18s.
    8: ...t Filderstadt, Germany, and lost her first professional match 6-4, 6-0 to [[Tracy Austin]]. After the ...
    10: ...ht reign on Steffi's personal life. Social invitations on the tour were often declined as Steffi's foc...
    18: ... to Navratilova in the finals at [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] and the US Open later that year...
    22: ...l four Grand Slam singles titles in one year, previously achieved by only two women – [[Maureen ...
  5. Mia Hamm (6476 bytes)
    1: ...ars as a member of the [[United States women's national soccer team]].
    3: ...r Heels to four consecutive [[NCAA]] women's championships. She was an All-American and [[Atlantic Coa...
    5: ...e youngest American woman to win a World Cup championship at the age of 19. In [[1993]], she graduated...
    7: ...t influential people by [[Soccer Business International]] magazine, and won three [[ESPY]] awards in a...
    9: ...er teammates were able to beat [[China women's national football team|China]] to win the gold medal.
  6. Larisa Latynina (2531 bytes)
    3: ... [[Kherson]], [[Ukrainian SSR]]) was a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] [[gymnastics|gymnast]]. She holds the r...
    5: ...d internationally at the [[1954]] Rome World Championships, winning the team all-around title.
    9: ...ly, she won the bronze in the horse vault competition.
    11:
    13: ... the town Semenovskoye, [[Moscow Oblast|Moscow region]].
  7. Suzanne Lenglen (11495 bytes)
    1: ...e first female tennis player to become an international celebrity.]]
    3: ...ale tennis celebrity and one of the first international female sport stars, named ''La Divine'' (the d...
    8: ...cise where he would lay down a handkerchief at various places on the court, to which his daughter had ...
    10: ...ed most national and international tennis competitions, and Lenglen's burgeoning career was put on hol...
    14: ...[[1920 in sports|1920]], but the [[Wimbledon Championships]] were again organised after a four year hi...
  8. Rebecca Lobo (1887 bytes)
    1: ...rofessional [[Women's National Basketball Association]] (WNBA) from [[1997]] to [[2003]].
    3: ...ship]] with an undefeated 35-0 record. In her senior year, she won the 1995 [[Naismith Award|Naismith...
    7: ...erty in exchange for Houston's second-round selection (26th overall) in the [[2002]] [[WNBA Draft]]. ...
    11: ...obo had their first child, a baby daughter named Siobhan Rose Rushin.
  9. Ellen MacArthur (3652 bytes)
    2: ... world record for the fastest solo [[circumnavigation]] of the [[Earth|globe]].
    6: ...98]] [[British Telecom]]/[[Royal Yachting Association]] Yachtsman of The Year in the [[United Kingdom|...
    12: ...e Kingfisher group) and unveiled in [[January]] [[2004]], was specially designed by Nigel Irens and Beno...
    14: ... yacht, her first significant record attempt in [[2004]] to break the west–east transatlantic cros...
    16: ...UTC]] on [[February 7]], [[2005]] beating the previous record set by French sailor [[Francis Joyon]] b...
  10. Shirley Muldowney (1811 bytes)
    2: ...ney's success came in the face of enormous opposition from those who felt drag racing was no place for...
    3: ...hey didn't want her to race Top Fuel, the association, the racers, nobody...Just Shirley."[http://www....
    4: ...'natural' driver (top fuel or funny car), no question".[http://www.metalshapers.org/nitrogeezers/Farnd...
  11. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    3: ...won the women's singles title at [[Wimbledon Championships|Wimbledon]] a record 9 times.
    9: ...she turned professional. She won her first professional singles title in [[Orlando, Florida]] in [[197...
    11: ...entually made extreme levels of fitness and conditioning a hallmark of her game.
    13: ...o the offices of the [[Immigration and Naturalization Service]] in [[New York City]] and informed them...
    19: ...|74-match winning streak]] (a record for a professional) by beating Navrátilová 1-6, 6-3, 7-5.
  12. Canna lily (3803 bytes)
    2: ...e | image = [[Image:Cannalilylg.jpg|240px]] | caption = A red, yellow, and orange canna lily}}
    5: {{Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Magnoliophyta]]}}
    6: {{Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Liliopsida]]}}
    11: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen| plural_taxon = Species}}
    15: ...y often bloom red, yellow, orange, or any combination of the three in spots or variegated; the leaves ...
  13. Orchidaceae (20056 bytes)
    2: ...Orchin_P622.jpg|250px|Phalaenopsis hybrid]] | caption = Orchid}}
    5: ...x_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
    6: ...axobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Monocotyledon|Liliopsida]]}}
    10: {{Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = <center>Ge...
    14: ...d by some to be the culmination of floral [[evolution]].
  14. Apple (20408 bytes)
    2: ...= [[Image:Fuji apple.jpg|200px|Fuji apple]] | caption = Fuji apple}}
    5: ...x_divisio_entry | taxon = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]}}
    6: ...xobox_classis_entry | taxon = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]}}
    25: ...hat were previously thought to have made contributions to the genome of the domestic apples are ''Malu...
    27: ...l as in the [[United States]] since the [[Immigration to the United States|arrival of Europeans]].
  15. Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
    4: ==Early life, education, and career==
    10: ...r future husband, [[Bill Clinton]]. After graduation, she advised the Children's Defense Fund in Camb...
    12: ...ince Foster, who worked in the Clinton Administration as a deputy counsel for a brief time before he c...
    17: In 1980 Bill Clinton was defeated for reelection as governor. In 1982, as part of his successful...
    20: ...ime as First Lady, she chaired the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee, co-founded the Arkansas A...
  16. Human brain (15406 bytes)
    1: [[image:Brain.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of the Human Brain courtesy of [http://classroom...
    7: ...ounced in the [[neocortex]], the most complex portion of the [[cerebral cortex]]. The human brain has ...
    9: ...has a million billion [[synapse|synaptic]] connections, making it one of the most densely connected ne...
    23: The brain is easily damaged by compression, so the fluid surrounding the central nervous sy...
    25: ... mother and child. However, prior to the intervention of modern medicine, [[childbirth]] was a dangero...
  17. Retina (13061 bytes)
    1: ...[Image:Eye.jpg|thumb|Color Cross Section Illustration of the Human Eye courtesy of [http://classroomcl...
    5: ... also plays a significant part in [[visual perception]]. In [[embryonal development]], the retina and ...
    7: ...ar Granit]] won the [[1967]] [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]] for their scientific research o...
    9: ...etina have been used for [[biometric]] identification.
    12: ...light and is responsible for our sharp central vision. Around the fovea extends the central retina for...
  18. List of dinosaur classifications (7586 bytes)
    1: ...article contains a '''list of dinosaur classifications'''.
    3: == Textbook classification ==
    5: ...assification has been updated from the second edition in 2000 to reflect new research, but remains fun...
    7: ...]]. Dinosauria is then divided into the two traditional orders, [[Saurischia]] and [[Ornithischia]]. T...
    17: *** &dagger;Division [[Carnosauria]]
  19. Silk (8683 bytes)
    5: ... international [[trade]] prior to [[industrialization]].
    11: ...o maintain the Chinese [[monopoly]] on its production. This effort at secrecy had mixed success. Seric...
    17: ...pe from early times, although the scale of production has always been far smaller than that of cultiva...
    23: ...editerranean and Middle East by the time the superior, and stronger, cultivated silk from China began ...
    27: In addition, it absorbs moisture better than ordinary silk a...
  20. United Nations (29685 bytes)
    1: ...UN members. For more information, see [[United Nations member states]].
    3: ...is in [[New York City]], [[USA]]; see [[United Nations headquarters]].
    5: ...sh speakers were referring to it as the United Nations, or UN.
    7: ...rt of what is collectively called the [[United Nations System]]:
    14: *[[International Court of Justice]]

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