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  1. Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
    7: ...ng)|Baltimore]]'' with her brother Mike for a competition involving the [[Baltimore Orioles]]. This so...
    10: ...t Peabody and her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later o...
    16: ...od", "Cornflake Girl" (a #4 single in the UK), "Pretty Good Year" and "Past the Mission", which featur...
    20: ...ir local rape crisis center. In [[1995]], Amos, duetting with [[Robert Plant]], contributed the song ...
    27: ...st signing, which she co-produced, was the band "Pet" headed by lead singer Lisa Papineau. Their self-...
  2. Hildegard of Bingen (14070 bytes)
    8: ...Vision (religion)|vision]]s. She received a prophetic call from God five years after her election as ...
    11: ... named Volmar, who was to become her lifelong secretary. However, in 1141, Hildegard had a vision that...
    13: Yet Hildegard was also overwhelmed by feelings of ina...
    17: ...ho exhorted Hildegard to finish her writings. To determine if her visions were divinely inspired he cr...
    22: ...nvented an [[constructed script|alternative alphabet]]. Due to her inventions of words for her lyrics ...
  3. Mother Teresa (22682 bytes)
    6: She was awarded the [[Templeton Prize]] in [[1973]] , the [[Nobel Peace Prize]]...
    9: ...children, and Teresa was youngest. The family was ethnically [[Albania|Albanian]]. Her native tongue w...
    11: ...sion to leave Skopje and join the [[Sisters of Loreto]], an [[Ireland|Irish]] community of nuns with a...
    13: She chose the Sisters of Loreto because of their vocation to provide education f...
    17: ...e with the Medical Mission Sisters in Patna, she returned to Calcutta and found temporary lodging with...
  4. Penny Marshall (1609 bytes)
    14: *''[[How Sweet It Is!]]'' (1968)
    16: ...he Christian Licorice Store]]'' (1971) (scenes deleted)
    22: *''[[Get Shorty]]'' (1995) (Cameo)
    31: *''[[A League of Their Own]]'' (1992)
  5. Catherine Deneuve (2766 bytes)
    6: ... time for her starring role in the [[1992 in film|1992]] film, ''[[Indochine (movie)|Indochine]]'' and w...
    24: * ''[[Indochine (movie)|Indochine]]'' (1992)
  6. Mia Farrow (4707 bytes)
    7: ...gical children (Matthew, Sascha, and Fletcher) together and [[adopted]] three children, Soon-Yi, Lark ...
    9: ...rrow]]). They also adopted a son and daughter together. After their separation, Farrow accused Allen...
    30: *''[[Secret Ceremony]]'' ([[1968]])
    54: *''[[Shadows and Fog]]'' ([[1992]])
    55: *''[[Husbands and Wives]]'' ([[1992]])
  7. Jodie Foster (4460 bytes)
    7: ...rtone Girl]], and then went on to appear in a variety of television series. She starred as Addie Pray ...
    31: *''[[Shadows and Fog]]'' (1992)
    63: ...d for Best Actress]] and [[Golden Globe Award]] [[1992]] - ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''
    68: *[http://jodie-online.net Jodie-Online.net]
  8. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
    5: ...[birth control]] advocate who, along with [[Margaret Sanger]], helped to found the organization that b...
    7: ...nship. She would later be recognized for her athletic physicality — she fearlessly performed he...
    12: ...ite businessman Ludlow Ogden Smith, whom she had met while attending Bryn Mawr and married after a sho...
    17: ... During her last years at Bryn Mawr, Hepburn had met a young producer with a stock company in [[Baltim...
    19: ...e on stage, flubbed her lines, tripped over her feet and spoke so rapidly that she was almost incompre...
  9. Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
    3: '''Helen Elizabeth Hunt''' (born [[15 June]] [[1963]]) is an [[Unit...
    7: ... such as ''[[Cast Away]]'' and ''[[As Good As It Gets]]'' (with [[Jack Nicholson]]), for which she won...
    26: *''[[As Good As It Gets]]'' (1997)
    31: *''[[Trancers III]]'' (1992)
    32: *''[[Bob Roberts]]'' (1992)
  10. Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
    3: The family returned to Australia when Nicole was four years old,...
    8: ...oung People in Sydney, and then to the Philip Street Theatre, where she majored in voice production an...
    10: ...e]]'', the mini-series ''[[Vietnam (miniseries)|Vietnam]]'' (1986), ''[[Bangkok Hilton]]'' (1989) and ...
    19: ... director)|Ron Howard]]'s ''[[Far and Away]]'' ([[1992]]). Later she was in ''[[Eyes Wide Shut]]'' ([[1...
    26: ...eincarnation]] of her dead husband, the film was met with a mixed reception. Despite the mixed recepti...
  11. Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
    3: '''Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini''', born in [[Rome]] on [[...
    5: ...Dorothy Vallens in [[David Lynch]]'s ''[[Blue Velvet]]''. She later took a part in ''[[Wild at Heart]]...
    10: ...[John Wiedemann]] with whom she has a daughter, Elettra. She was also romantically linked to [[David L...
    14: ...cavullo]], [[Annie Leibovitz]], and [[Robert Mapplethorpe]]. Her image has appeared on such magazines...
    16: ...s exclusive spokesmodel for the international cosmetics brand [[Lanc?] for 14 years.
  12. Meryl Streep (12114 bytes)
    9: ...re, Streep took to playing roles with greater variety, including farce in ''[[Death Becomes Her]]'' al...
    11: ...dash;appearing in ''[[Marvin's Room]]'', and completing another successful decade with ''[[Music of th...
    13: ...ly Browning]] and [[Jude Law]] in ''[[Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events]]''. That same y...
    18: ...numerous sites, including her page at the [[Internet Movie Database]] (link below). Summarized below a...
    82: ...(actor)|Jeff Daniels]], [[Ed Harris]], [[Toni Collette]], [[Claire Danes]], [[Stephen Dillane]], [[Joh...
  13. Julie Andrews (8700 bytes)
    5: ...roops throughout the UK with fellow child star [[Petula Clark]]. She made her stage debut at an early...
    7: ...site [[Richard Burton]] and newcomer [[Robert Goulet]]. As was her previous show, it was a smash hit.
    9: ...pburn for the Oscar, Andrews got a measure of "sweet revenge". In her acceptance speech, she said "I w...
    11: ...ar]] by the [[Harvard University]] theatrical society.
    13: ... movies based on the character of Eloise, the moppet who lives at the [[Plaza Hotel]] in [[New York Ci...
  14. Steffi Graf (16410 bytes)
    6: ...ee he began teaching Steffi to swing a wooden racket in the family's living room. She began practising...
    10: ...]], who was a year younger than Graf, played 21. Peter Graf also kept a tight reign on Steffi's person...
    14: ...and could potentially have been a world-class athlete in that event.
    22: ...h; [[Maureen Connolly]] (in [[1953]]) and [[Margaret Court]] (in [[1970]]). But with tennis becoming a...
    26: ...y rediscovered as Graf beat Navratilova in three-set finals at both Wimbeldon and the US Open.
  15. Martina Navratilova (16246 bytes)
    11: ...he game saw her embark on a punishing routine to get herself into shape that eventually made extreme l...
    15: ...n in [[1978]], where she defeated Evert in three sets in the final and captured the World No. 1 rankin...
    17: ... the final of the US Open where she lost a third-set tie-breaker to [[Tracy Austin]]. She won both Wim...
    21: ... 109-match winning streak that the pair achieved between 1983 and [[1985]]. (Navrátilová was ranked ...
    25: ...Open, with Graf winning both encounters in three sets.
  16. Laura Serrano (2835 bytes)
    7: ... also proclaimed equallity between the sexes in [[1992]] (sort of a [[Mexican]] version of [[Title IX]])...
    11: Next came a world title try, and she met the great world champion [[Tracy Byrd (boxer)|Tra...
    19: She is also a lawyer nowadays, and is set to marry her fiancee very soon. Her trainer is fr...
  17. Nymphaeaceae (2255 bytes)
    21: Modern [[genetic]] tests of the [[flowering plant]]s by the [[An...
    25: ...viously often included in the Nymphaeaceae, is genetically very different, and is now placed in its ow...
    28: ...ions, Illustrations, Identification, Information Retrieval. http://delta-intkey.com
    30: ...NympheaColorataPeterAfrica.JPG|Nymphaea colorata Peter|thumb|left|''Nymphaea colorata'' from Africa]]
  18. Hillary Rodham Clinton (17176 bytes)
    6: Hillary Rodham was raised in a [[Methodist]] family in [[Park Ridge, Illinois]]. Her ...
    10: ... Nixon|Richard M. Nixon]]. It was then that she met Bernard Nussbaum, who would become the future Whi...
    20: ...e Children's Defense Fund. She also, from 1986 to 1992, served on the Board of Directors for Wal-Mart St...
    23: ... $1,000 investment generated $100,000 (a 10,000% return) [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politic...
    27: ...nd losses were common in the volatile futures market.
  19. Retina (13061 bytes)
    3: The '''retina''' is a thin layer of cells at the back of the...
    5: ... perception]]. In [[embryonal development]], the retina and the optic nerve originate as outgrowths of...
    7: ... Medicine]] for their scientific research on the retina.
    9: ... vessel]]s in the retina have been used for [[biometric]] identification.
    12: ... and then the peripheral retina. The edge of the retina is defined by the [[ora serrata]]. The length ...
  20. United Nations (29685 bytes)
    3: ... fulfill these obligations. The General Assembly determines admission upon recommendation of the Secur...
    13: *[[UN Secretariat]]
    20: ...[[United States]], and the [[Soviet Union|USSR]] met to elaborate the plans at the [[Dumbarton Oaks|Du...
    24: ...ash; [[Republic of China]], [[France]], the [[Soviet Union]], [[United Kingdom]], and the [[United Sta...
    30: ...que position of global dominance, creating a variety of new challenges for the UN (See the [[United S...

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