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- Anne of Great Britain (22303 bytes)
3: ...humb|150px|'''Anne''' <br><small>Queen of Great Britain and Ireland</small>]]
8: ...ceeded by a distant cousin, [[George I of Great Britain|George I]], of the [[House of Hanover]].
10: ...] (which united England and Scotland into Great Britain) was a product of subsequent negotiations.
15: ...ta Maria|Queen Henrietta Maria]], and afterwards with her aunt, [[Henrietta Anne Stuart|Henrietta Anne...
22: ...hat is, one who believed that James II was the legitimate monarch), Mary II dismissed him from all his... - Kim Campbell (10679 bytes)
22: | [[Port Alberni, British Columbia]]
25: | [[politician]]
27: | '''[[Political party|Political Party]]:'''
31: ...st industrialized countries in the world, after British Prime Minister [[Margaret Thatcher]].
33: ... teens. She was educated at the [[University of British Columbia]] (B.A., LL.B.) and studied towards a... - Condoleezza Rice (23116 bytes)
22: |[[Professor|University Professor]]
24: |'''[[Political party|Political Party]]'''
25: |[[United States Republican Party|Republican]]
27: ...[African American]] [[woman]], the second African American (after [[Colin Powell]]), and the second woman (...
29: ...ary of State. On [[January 26]] [[2005]], the [[United States Senate|U.S. Senate]] confirmed her nomin... - Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
1: [[Image:Eleanor_Roosevelt.gif|White House portrait|thumb|right|175px|Eleanor Roosevelt]]
3: ...inism|Feminist]] and an active supporter of the [[American Civil Rights Movement]].
5: ...tion]] and [[Freedom House]]. She chaired the committee that drafted and approved the [[UN Universal D...
9: ...urvived infancy. However their marriage almost split over sexual explorations outside marriage by FDR ...
13: ...ce viewed as an afront to Theodore Roosevelt's position as President. - The Valiant Five (3833 bytes)
5: *[[Emily Murphy]] (the [[British Empire|British Empire's]] first woman judge);
11: ...rth America Act]], [[1867]], included the possibility of women becoming [[Senate of Canada|senators]]:...
17: ...n senators, since women did not participate in politics at that time;
20: ...e House of Lords remained a point of legal and political controversy long after.
22: ...er, [[Cairine Wilson]] became the first woman to sit in the Senate. - Susan B. Anthony (3977 bytes)
3: ...ffort to grant women the right to vote in the [[United States]].
5: ... York]]. While in Rochester, she attended the [[Unitarian Church]].
7: ...in [[1856]] the agent for New York state of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]].
9: ...New York City]], edited by Stanton, and having as its motto:
13: ...cal and moral grounds and hoped that greater equality for women would end the need for abortion. - Emma Goldman (12210 bytes)
3: ... and was later deported to [[Russia]], where she witnessed events of the [[Russian Revolution of 1917|...
6: ...ds for her anarchist ideas and her independent attitude.
8: ==Immigration to America==
9: ...lly married, allowing her to retain her American citizenship.
12: ==New York City== - Rosa Luxemburg (23905 bytes)
2: ...the monarchist army and freelance right-wing [[militia]]s collectively called the [[Freikorps]], which...
6: ... on her CV for Z?University, but her [[1887]] [[Abitur]] certificate says she was 17, in which case sh...
8: ...put to death and the party was broken up. Some of its members managed to meet in secret; Rosa joined o...
10: ...]]. She studied [[philosophy]], [[history]], [[politics]], [[economics]] and [[mathematics]] simultane...
12: ... able to gain seats in the [[Reichstag]]. But despite their revolutionary talk, the socialist members ... - Lucretia Mott (3249 bytes)
3: ...r]], a [[women's rights]] proponent, and an [[abolitionist]].
5: ... first Quaker women to do advocacy work for [[abolition]].
7: ...l concept for that time and remains so, and the United States was the first country and still one of t...
9: ...al advocacy to women coming up as women's and abolitionist advocates. In the [[1830s]] she helped esta...
11: ...vement in one area, that of divorce. At that time it was very difficult to obtain divorce, and fathers... - Madalyn Murray O'Hair (6271 bytes)
1: ...nited States|American]] [[atheist]], founder of [[American Atheists]] and campaigned for the [[separation o...
4: ...graphy]] staff in [[Italy]], she began an affair with William J. Murray Jr. and bore him a child (Will...
6: ==An American atheist==
7: ...ed to Madalyn Murray as ''the most hated woman in America''.
9: ... | First Amendment]] public policy." She acted as its first [[CEO]] before later handing the office on... - Rosa Parks (8331 bytes)
1: ...r refusing to give up her seat to make room for white people.]]
2: ...usal in [[1955]] to give up a [[bus]] seat to a white man who was getting on the bus.
3: ==Civil rights and political activity==
4: ...James and Loeona McCauley. She grew up on a farm with her grandparents, mother, and brother; most of h...
6: ...tion center for workers' rights and [[racial equality]]. - Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
2: ...ol]] activist. Initially meeting with fierce opposition, Sanger gradually won the support of the publi...
5: ... ten years in the affluent New York suburb of [[White Plains]]. In [[1902]], she married William Sange...
7: ...hould Know." Distributing a pamphlet, ''Family Limitation'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked s...
9: ...e also contributed articles on health for the [[United States Socialist Party|Socialist Party]] paper,...
11: ...ed the reality of sexual feelings in adolescents. It was followed in 1917 by ''What Every Mother Shoul... - Gloria Steinem (3728 bytes)
5: ...amily split in [[1944]], and Gloria went to live with her mother in Toledo. As a child in Toledo, Glor...
8: .... She majored in government studies and became politically active, working for [[Adlai Stevenson]]'s c...
9: ... In [[1963]] she became a full-time [[freelance writer]] through the publication of her infamous under...
11: == Political Awakening and Activism ==
12: ...eground. During this time she toured the country with the brilliant lawyer [[Florynce Rae Kennedy | Fl... - Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
2: ...oronto]]. After living in various places in North America and around the world, she returned to Toronto, wh...
4: ...]] and edited work. She has also been associated with [[Canadian nationalism]] in the [[1960s]] and [[...
6: ...[[Toronto]]'s new voices in the [[1960s]], along with [[Gwendolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Mich...
10: ..., was included in the French version of the competition, ''Le combat des livres'', in [[2004]].
12: ...lled the "Unotchit" (and pronounced "You-No-Touch-It"), will allow an author to remotely sign a book a... - Mary Cassatt (9047 bytes)
1: ...y Cassatt]]. ([[1893]]). Oil on canvas. [[Art Institute of Chicago]]. ]]
2: ...sh; [[June 14]], [[1926]]) was an [[United States|American]] painter.
4: ... she was 10 years old, she visited many of the capitals of Europe, including [[London]], [[Paris]], an...
6: Despite her family's objections to her becoming a profes...
8: ... commissioned her to paint copies of paintings in Italy, after which she traveled about Europe. - Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
2: ...–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-American]] [[folkloristics|folklorist]] and author. Her ...
5: ...llege]] under [[Franz Boas]] at [[Columbia University]].
7: ...lainable for a number of reasons, cultural and political.
9: ...thus it embraces the dialect and culture of Black America of the early 20th century. For example ( Amy fro...
11: ...m uh fightin' dawg and mah hide is worth money. Hit me if you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator gut... - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...], known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the [[Canadian pion...
5: ...oduction of ''The Silver King'', as Baby Gladys Smith. She subsequently played in many melodramas and...
7: ...]] play, ''The Warrens of Virginia'', which was written by William C. DeMille, brother of [[Cecil B. D...
9: ...ies of disappointing roles and the public's inability to accept Pickford in roles that reflected her o...
11: ...ame secretly involved in a romantic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbank... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
9: place_of_death=[[New York City]], [[New York]]
11: ...as the ideal and made it the express goal of her literature to showcase such heroes. She believed:
13: ...dividual has a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self;...
19: ...present when Ayn chose the name Rand from a typewriter.
22: ...e United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her screenplay ''[[Red Pawn]]'' in [... - Gertrude Stein (13569 bytes)
1: ...nd catalyst in the development of modern art and literature, who spent most of her life in [[France]].
3: [[Image:Homosexualitystein.jpg|thumb|right|Gertrude Stein and her love...
7: ...legheny, Pennsylvania]] (now the North Side of [[Pittsburgh]]), her family moved to [[Vienna]] and the...
9: ...image:Stein_by_picasso.jpg|thumb|left|326px|Portrait of Gertrude Stein by [[Pablo Picasso]], 1906]]
11: ...o [[France]] during the height of artistic creativity gathering in [[Montparnasse]]. - Amelia Earhart (9225 bytes)
2: ...[July 2]], [[1937]]) was a famous [[United States|American]] [[aviator]], known for breaking new ground for...
6: ... spent the first twelve years of her life living with her mother's parents.
8: ...tts]]. During this time, she was able to keep up with aviation as a weekend hobbyist. She was even fea...
10: ...hart referred to the marriage as a "partnership" with "dual control."
14: ...pasture near [[Derry]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[United Kingdom]]. She received the [[Distinguished Fly...
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