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- Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
18: | '''Date of Birth:'''
28: | [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]]
31: ...]]'s only female head of a national government to date. She was also the second woman in history to si...
39: ...on]] as a [[Progressive Conservative Party of Canada|Progressive Conservative]].
41: ...mpbell automatically became Prime Minister of Canada. - Maria Cantwell (9094 bytes)
33: ...ed up having three debates, during which the candidates harshly attacked each other. Senn attacked Rea...
37: [[Social security]], [[prescription drugs]], [[dams]], and [[campaign finance reform]] were among t...
41: ... of 2.5 million ballots cast, or about .08%. A mandatory recount increased her lead to 2,229 votes, or...
43: Republicans criticized Libertarian candidate [[Jeff Jared]] for acting as a spoiler. They sa...
60: ...iller]] | after=Richard Alan White | years=1993 – 1994}} - Helen Clark (4005 bytes)
12: |[[1981]], to [[Peter Davis (New Zealand)|Peter Davis]]
47: Clark served in the Labour cabinets of [[David Lange]], [[Geoffrey Palmer]] and [[Mike Moore]...
53: She married the [[sociology|sociologist]] Peter Davis, who had been her partner of five years at tha... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
15: |'''Date of Birth'''
29: ... a vote of 85-13, and she was sworn in later that day.
34: ...s a high-school guidance counsellor, and was an ordained minister who preached on weekends; Rice's mot...
35: ...[http://www.wnyc.org/legacy/shows/madaboutmusic/madabout_transcript090701.html]
41: ...://www.publiceye.org/frontpage/OpEds/berlet_condi_dad.html] At age 15, Rice began classes with the goa... - Margaret Thatcher (46377 bytes)
7: – [[28 November]] [[1990]]
15: |'''Date of Birth:'''
27: ...''Iron Lady''' in [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda (because of her vocal opposition to [[communism]]...
31: ...e labour market that would create jobs and could adapt to market conditions. Exacerbated by the global...
33: ...[House of Lords]] and as head of the Thatcher Foundation. - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
8: ...nasium]] there from [[1880]]. Even in those early days she was a member of the "Proletariat", a left-w...
21: ... [[general strike]] to rouse the workers into solidarity and prevent war, but the party leadership ref...
25: ...part in the Russian Social Democrats' Fifth Party Day in [[London]], where she met [[Vladimir Lenin]]....
32: ...re declared war against [[Russia]]. The following day, the [[Reichstag]] unanimously agreed to finance...
36: ...a number of scores, and presciently warned of the danger that a [[dictatorship]] would develop under B... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
4: ...o has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a...
6: ...endolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
10: ...'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and...
14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981. - Anna Comnena (3243 bytes)
1: ...ena''' ([[December 1]] [[1083]] - [[1153]]) was a daughter of the [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] emper...
5: ...mpire, Anna Comnena regards the [[Crusades]] as a danger both political and religious. Her models are ...
11: ...d.html The Alexiad]'', translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes in 1928
14: ...ey=B6VC1-47X6TVK-4-1&_cdi=5941&_orig=browse&_coverDate=03%2F31%2F2003&_sk=999709998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVt... - Amy Johnson (2606 bytes)
2: '''Amy Johnson''' ([[July 1]], [[1903]] – [[January 5]], [[1941]]) was a famous English ...
8: ...t year and landed in [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin, Australia]] on [[May 24]] after flying 11,00... - Mae Jemison (5527 bytes)
5: ... [[African-American Studies]] and is trained in [[dance]] and [[choreography]].
15: ...r Advancing Technology in Developing Countries at Dartmouth College. The Institute was established as ...
19: ...rner Trumpet Award (1993); and Montgomery Fellow, Dartmouth (1993); Kilby Science Award (1993); Induct... - Hypatia of Alexandria (10302 bytes)
2: ...;πατία'') (?[[370|370]]–[[415]]) was a [[neo-Platonism|neo-Platonic]] [...
4: ...ertainly included the [[Serapeum]] (a temple and "daughter library" to the Great Library). In [[391]],...
12: :"There was a woman at Alexandria named Hypatia, daughter of the philosopher Theon, who made such att...
18: Theories, without sufficient data, (in the ancient world it is common for "histor...
26: ...reat church, named Caesarion. Now this was in the days of the fast. And they tore off her clothing and... - Ada Lovelace (5406 bytes)
1: [[image:AdaLovelace1.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Ada Lovelace]]
2: '''Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace''' ([[December 10]], [...
6: ...eed of Separation and left England for good a few days later. He never saw either again.
8: ...Annabella was fond of [[mathematics]] and taught Ada this art at an early stage of her life. She was p...
10: [[Image:Ada Lovelace.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Ada Lovelace]] - Rosalind Franklin (9829 bytes)
5: ...ioner (effectively governor) for the [[British Mandate of Palestine]]. Her aunt Helen was married to N...
12: ...nforming Wilkins of that fact. Wilkins was on holiday when Franklin arrived, and so he returned to fin...
15: ...and Franklin illuminating their X-ray diffraction data published in the same issue of ''Nature'' suppo...
18: ...ell have been deliberately exacerbated by John Randall. Watson has stated that Franklin should have di...
32: *Maddox, Brenda ''Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA'', 2002. ISBN 0060184078. - Sophie Germain (4906 bytes)
3: ...'Marie-Sophie Germain''' ([[April 1]], [[1776]] – [[June 27]], [[1831]]) was a [[France|French]]...
17: ...ttend sessions at the French Academy of Sciences—excepting the wives of other members.
25: ...[[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning [[Broadway]] play by [[David Auburn]], contains references to Germain. - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1937 bytes)
1: ...n''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] ([[May 12]], [[1910]]–[[July 29]], [[1994]]) was a British [[scientis...
3: ...tKaihsuTai.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Order of Merit medal of Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, displayed in the Ro...
7: ...in crystallography and in [[1976]] the [[Copley Medal]] from the [[Royal Society]]. In [[1965]] she w...
11: *Dodson, Guy, Jenny P. Glusker, and David Sayre (eds.). 1981. ''Structural Studies on Mo...
16: ...er, Jenny P., and Margaret J. Adams (''Physics Today'' 48: 80-81, 1995) - Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [...
10: ... completely unexpected; it took some study of the data and creative thinking to free her mind from the...
12: ...ess Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience.
18: *Patricia Rife, ''Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age'' Birkhäµ³er, 1999 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
3: ...]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward...
9: ...nterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, othe... - Clara Barton (9023 bytes)
2: ...she was born the day before Christmas, the 24th)–[[April 12]], [[1912]]) was a pioneer American ...
6: Clara Barton was born on Christmas Day 1821 to Stephen and Sarah Barton in [[Oxford, Ma...
17: ...h all I had, even with my life if need be; as the daughter of an accepted [[Mason]], he bade me seek a...
41: ...Imperial Russia and the International Red Cross Medal. Her final act was founding the National First A... - Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (8386 bytes)
2: ...), better known as '''Helena Blavatsky''' or '''Madame Blavatsky''' was the founder of [[Theosophy]].
5: ...aine]] (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]), the daughter of [[Colonel|Col.]] Peter Alexeivich von Ha...
15: ...inspiration from [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]]. Madame Blavatsky claimed that all religions were both ...
21: ...by Theosophists, and it is called White [[Lotus]] Day.
54: *''The Esoteric World of Madame Blavatsky'' by Daniel Caldwell [http://esotericworld.net] - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
2: '''Marilyn Monroe''' ([[June 1]], [[1926]] – [[August 5]], [[1962]]) was an [[United States...
6: ... her true biological father. The most likely candidate for a while seemed to be [[Charles Stanley Giff...
8: ...r cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayne had seriously consider...
10: ...t never hugged or kissed her, or even smiled. One day, Gladys announced that she had bought a house fo...
12: ...herty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the [[East Coast of the Un...
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