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- 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...
10: ...]] [[1931]], she set the record for flying from [[England]] to [[Japan]] in a [[De Havilland]] [[Puss Moth]...
12: ...1932]], she set a solo record for the flight from England to [[Cape Town]], [[South Africa]], also in a Pus...
18: ... [[De_Havilland_DH.88|De Havilland Comet]] in the England to [[Australia]] air race. Johnson was to divorce... - Phillis Wheatley (3014 bytes)
5: ...elina, Countess of Huntingdon]] and the [[Earl of Dartmouth]] helped with the publication.
14: ... by Geo. W. Light, 1834), also by Margaretta Matilda Odell
15: ...ects, Religious and Moral'' Published in 1773 in England - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ... age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up in...
12: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
16: ... She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique International...
18: ..., [[California]], Jacqueline Cochran flew a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[F-86 Sabre]] jet at an average speed...
20: ...ity in support of an Eisenhower presidential candidacy. The rally was documented on film and Cochran p... - 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...
9: ... It seemed she had little choice but to return to England.
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... - 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.
14: Meitner died in [[Cambridge]], [[England]] in [[1968]]. Element 109 is named [[meitnerium]...
17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience. - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (3312 bytes)
3: ...[1836]] – [[17 December]] [[1917]]) was an [[England|English]] physician and [[feminism|feminist]], th...
5: ...edicine, an unheard-of thing for a woman in those days, regarded by some as almost indecent. Having o...
7: In 1866 she was appointed general medical attendant to St Mary's Dispensary, a London institution s...
9: ... medical degree of London University (the present-day [[University College London]]), which was opened...
11: ...ch Dr Anderson was the indefatigable pioneer in [[England]], extended in her lifetime to every civilized co... - Dorothea Dix (5868 bytes)
2: '''Dorothea Lynde Dix''' ([[April 4]], [[1802]]–[[July 17]], [[1887]]) (not to be confused with...
10: ...arranged to have her sent abroad to recover. In [[England]], she spent a year living on the estate of the R...
12: ... family-like asylum removed from the pressures of daily life. When she returned to the United states s...
18: ...like [[Florence Nightingale]] at the same time in England, she used this image to shame the powerful into a... - Florence Nightingale (15657 bytes)
3: ...|nursing]]. Each year, the [[International Nurses Day]] is celebrated on her birth anniversary.
11: ...nfirmary]] in [[London]] that became a public scandal, Nightingale became the leading advocate for imp...
19: ...46]]), a position he would hold again ([[1852]] – [[1854]]) during the [[Crimean War]]. Herbert ...
23: ...ctivity, and the [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] foundations of the hospital. While at Kaiserwerth, Flore...
31: ...arly in November [[1854]]. In [[Scutari]] (modern-day [[ܳk? in [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]) Nightingale ... - Clara Schumann (3372 bytes)
3: ...e Wieck Schumann''' ([[September 13]], [[1819]] – [[May 20]], [[1896]]), wife of composer [[Rob...
7: ...rly age with her father, the well-known piano [[pedagogue]] [[Friedrich Wieck]]. She had a brilliant c...
9: ...s works, but when in [[1856]] she first visited [[England]] the critics received Schumann's music with a ch...
11: ...bility was considerably rarer than in the present day, she was herself the composer of a few songs and...
14: ...r violin and piano. Inspired by her husbands birthday, the three Romances were composed in 1853 and de... - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
3: ...s probably best known to the wider public for a [[dance]] [[remix]] of "[[Professional Widow]]", her s...
10: ...nd her difficulty with playing from sheet music – with Caton, [[Matt Sorum]] (later of [[the Cul...
13: ...hearing the edited version, and relocated Tori to England to launch the "new" album, which was released und...
33: ...rgirl Hotel'', but like that album featured overt dance music influences and a relatively subdued pian...
50: ===''Welcome to Sunny Florida''=== - Grace O'Malley (3478 bytes)
6: ...and]], when [[Henry VIII]] was on the throne of [[England]]. Under the policies of the English government a...
7: Grace was the daughter of Owen Dubhdarra O' Malley, chieftain of the O'Malley clan. The...
14: ...ed for centuries in the O' Malley family and is today open to the public. They had one son, Tibbot Bur...
22: ...minally directing her raids against "enemies of [[England]]". She died in Rockfleet around [[1603]]. - Mary, the mother of Jesus (30135 bytes)
17: ...e cross along with her sister Mary, and [[Mary Magdalene]], [[Salome (disciple)|Salome]] and other wom...
19: ...ople in the Upper Room after the Ascension on the day of [[Pentecost]], she is one of the handful who ...
25: ...French, Spanish, and Italian, is rendered ''Notre Dame'', ''Nuestra Señora'', and ''Madonna'' r...
27: ...ome Orthodox and Catholic Christians, she was the daughter of [[Joachim]] and [[Saint Anne|Anna]]. Bef...
41: ...too much attention is focused on Mary, there is a danger of detracting from the worship due to God alo... - 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] - Julian of Norwich (1710 bytes)
1: ...1413]]) is considered to be one of the greatest [[England|English]] [[mystic]]s. Little is known of her li... - Joan of Arc (27453 bytes)
2: ...le interest in the [[Republic of Ireland]], [[Canada]], [[United Kingdom]] and [[United States]]. Many...
7: ...wn prince]]), and making the infant [[Henry VI of England]] the nominal king after [[1422]].
12: ...d they gave her male clothing to wear (as the standard disguise used in such circumstances) and brough...
14: ... small force she eventually led included the legendary soldiers, [[Jean de Dunois|Jean d'Orleans (Coun...
16: ... said would verify her legitimacy as a visionary—gained her the support of prominent clergy such... - Denise Bloch (2657 bytes)
11: ...humously, Britain awarded her the "[[King's Commendation for Brave Conduct]]." In France, posthumous h... - Edith Cavell (1802 bytes)
3: [[Image:Eca dead2.jpeg|thumb|234px|A propaganda image of Edith Cavell]]
7: ...se became an important article of British propaganda throughout the war [http://www.stephen-stratford.... - Julia Child (8199 bytes)
2: '''Julia Child''' ([[August 15]], [[1912]] – [[August 13]], [[2004]]), born '''Julia McWill...
6: ...ca]] (U.S.), she grew up eating traditional [[New England]] food prepared by the family maid. After graduat...
28: ...]]'' sketch, she was affectionately parodied by [[Dan Aykroyd]], continuing with a cooking show despit...
30: ...and Food]] in California with vintner [[Robert Mondavi]] and others to "advance the understanding, app...
36: ...igned by her husband with high counters to accommodate her height and which served as the set for thre... - Odette Sansom (1906 bytes)
5: ... in [[Nazi]]-occupied France. She left her three daughters in the care of her husband.
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