Hillary Clinton, First Lady as wife to President Bill Clinton
(1994-2001). She was an attorney and reform advocate before moving to
the White House. Then Hillary Clinton, made history by being elected to
the Senate and running for President herself. She was the 67th United
States Secretary of State.
09 – Cleopatra
Cleopatra was the last Pharaoh of Egypt. The most well known by far
of the queens called “Cleopatra”, she is the one usually meant when this
name is mentioned. Cleopatra was a woman of intelligence and charisma,
later celebrated as a great beauty.
08 – Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a young Jewish girl in the Netherlands.She
kept a diary during the time when she and her family were hiding from
the Nazis. Unfortunately she didn’t survive her time in a concentration
camp, but her diary has become one of the world’s most widely read
books. She was the most discussed Jewish victim of the Holocaust.
07 – Emily Dickinson
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet who lived between
(1830 – 1886). She wrote hundreds of poets like “Because I Could Not
Stop for Death”, “Heart, we will forget him!”, “I’m Nobody! Who are
You?”, and “Wild Nights! Wild Nights!”. She wasn’t recognized that much
till her sister discovered her cache of poems after she is dead.
06 – Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc, nicknamed “The Maid of Orléans” , is a national heroine
of France and a Roman Catholic saint. She was burned at the stake after
she helped restore the King of France to his throne. She was later
canonized.
05 – Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey, is an African-american talk show host. She is also one of America’s most successful business people and a philanthropist.
04 – Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa was a Roman Catholic nun of Albanian ethnicity and
Indian citizenship, who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta.
. For over 45 years, she devote herself to caring for the sick and
poor. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work.
03 – Rosa Parks
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913-2005) was an African-American civil
rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called “the first lady of civil
rights”, and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
02 – Madonna
Madonna (born Madonna Louise Ciccone; August 16, 1958) is an American
singer, songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. May be she isn’t as
important as Mother Teresa, but her fame is known all over the world
more than her. Probably that’s because she is an hard worker and doesn’t
stop to produce new materials even she is getting older.
01 – Marilyn Monroe
Basically an icon. Marilyn Monroe, actress who was discovered while
working in a World War II defense plant, epitomized a certain image for
women in the 1940s and 1950s. She starred in a number of commercially
successful motion pictures during the 1950s.
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