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Simone de Beauvoir
Born and educated in Paris, Simone de Beauvoir was among the first women permitted to complete a program of study at the École Normale Supérieure. Through her lifelong fr... |
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Rosa Parks, Montgomery Bus Boycott 1955
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."
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Etty Hillesum, the girl that learned to kneel
Like Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jew living in Amsterdam. She died in Auschwitz in 1943, at the age of 29. She began a diary nine months after Hitler invaded t... |
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Evita Peron
Eva Maria Duarte was born in May of 1919 in Argentina. She grew up very poor with five brothers and sisters, a mother, and no father. Eva moved to Buenos Aires when she w... |
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Maria Callas, Opera Singer
Maria Callas was an American born, Greek dramatic coloratura soprano and perhaps the best-known opera singer of the post-World War II period. She combined an impressive b... |
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Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Thatcher's political career has been one of the most remarkable of modern times. Born in October 1925 at Grantham, a small market town in eastern England, she ro... |
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Queen Elizabeth II
The Queen was born in London on 21 April 1926, the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York, subsequently King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. Five weeks later she was... |
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Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe personified Hollywood glamour with an unparalleled glow and energy that enamored the world. Although she was an alluring beauty with voluptuous curves and... |
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Anne Frank
On 12 June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary from her parents as a 13th birthday present. She called it Kitty and as she started to document her innermost feelings and t... |
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Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison (born Chloe Anthony Wofford), is a Nobel Prize-winning American author, editor, and professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, a... |
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Dian Fossey
Dian Fossey became interested in Africa and made a six week trip there in 1963. At Olduvai Gorge, she met Dr. Louis Leakey who impressed on her the importance of doing... |
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Jane Goodall
In the summer of 1960, 26-year-old Jane Goodall arrived on the shore of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa to study the area's chimpanzee... |
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Brigitte Bardot
Brigitte Bardot is a French actress and model, daughter of an industrialist. Also known simply as BB ("Bri-Bri" in childhood) she is considered the embodiment of the 1950... |
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Lynn Margulis, Scientist
Margulis realized that life’s most important division was not plants versus animals. Instead, the great divide came between bacteria and all other organisms—protoctists,... |
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Dolly Parton
Dolly Rebecca Parton is a Grammy Award-winning country music singer/songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. She remains one of the most successful femal... |
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