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<title>Sojourner Truth lived in NYC</title>
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        African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women's rights movements. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32839">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:13:42.550896+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mary Douglas Leakey worked here</title>
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        Born Feb. 6, 1913, London, England.
Died Dec. 9, 1996, Nairobi, Kenya.

English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made several of the most important fossil finds subsequently interpreted and publicized by her husband, the noted anthropologist Louis Leakey. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32814">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 13:07:55.145366+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Winnie Madikizela-Mandela lives here</title>
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        South African social worker and activist considered by many black South Africans to be the "Mother of the Nation." She was the second wife of Nelson Mandela, from whom she separated in 1992 after her questionable behaviour and unrestrained militancy alienated fellow antiapartheid activists, including her husband.

Original name  Nomzamo Winifred , original Xhosa name  Nkosikazi Nobandle Nomzamo Madikizela 
born September 26, 1936, Bizana, Pondoland district, Transkei (now in Eastern Cape), South Africa. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32815">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:46:35.793304+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Golda Meir helped found Isreal</title>
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        A founder and fourth prime minister (1969-74) of the State of Israel. 

Original name  Goldie Mabovitch , later  Goldie Myerson. 
Born May 3, 1898, Kiev. 
Died Dec. 8, 1978, Jerusalem.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32817">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:39:45.976577+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hedy Lamarr was born here</title>
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        glamorous Austrian film star who was often typecast as a provocative femme fatale. Years after her screen career ended, she achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications device. Lamarr once insisted, "Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid." That she herself was anything but stupid was unequivocally proven during World War II, when, in collaboration with the avant-garde composer George Antheil, she invented an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals. Though it was never used in wartime, this device is a component of present-day satellite and cellular phone technology.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32835">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:36:15.562903+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jackie Joyner-Kersee was born here</title>
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        American athlete, considered by many to be the greatest female athlete ever, who became the first participant to score more than 7,000 points in the heptathlon. Joyner-Kersee's best heptathlon events were the long jump, 100-metre hurdles, 200-metre run, and high jump. She often competed in single events, particularly the long jump, in which she tied the world record (7.45 metres [24 feet 5.5 inches]) in 1987 and won the gold medal in 1988 and the bronze in 1992. After the 1996 Olympics, Joyner-Kersee played professional basketball with the Richmond Rage; she left the team midway through her first season to compete in the long jump indoors. In 1997 she published A Kind of Grace: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Female Athlete.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32837">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Harriet Tubman lived here</title>
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        American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad-an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. In 1849, on the strength of rumours that she was about to be sold, Tubman fled to Philadelphia. In December 1850 she made her way to Baltimore, Maryland, whence she led her sister and two children to freedom. That journey was the first of some 19 increasingly dangerous forays into Maryland in which, over the next decade, she conducted upward of 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad to Canada. By her extraordinary courage, ingenuity, persistence, and iron discipline, which she enforced upon her charges, Tubman became the railroad's most famous conductor and was known as the "Moses of her people."

Born c. 1820, Dorchester county, Maryland, U.S.
died March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32838">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:31:40.450909+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>'A'ishah</title>
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        born 614, Mecca, Arabia (now in Saudi Arabia); died July 678, Medina. 
The third and most favoured wife of the Prophet Muhammad (the founder of Islam). 

When Muhammad died in 632, 'A'ishah was left a childless widow of 18. She remained politically inactive until the time of 'Uthman; the third caliph, or leader of the Islamic community), during whose reign she played an important role in fomenting opposition that led to his murder in 656. She led an army against his successor, 'Ali, but was defeated in the Battle of the Camel. The engagement derived its name from the fierce fighting that centred around the camel upon which 'A'ishah was mounted. Captured, she was allowed to live quietly in Medina. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32696">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:38:15.848468+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hypatia lived here</title>
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        The first notable woman in mathematics. She said, "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all," To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. Born c. 370, Alexandria, Egypt
died March 415, Alexandria. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32769">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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        Born May 4, 1904?, Tummay al-Zahayrah, Egypt. 
Died February 3, 1975, Cairo,

Egyptian singer, who mesmerized Arab audiences from the Persian Gulf to Morocco for half a century. She was one of the most famous Arab singers and public personalities in the 20th century.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32818">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Greta Garbo</title>
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        one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and '30s who is best known for her portrayals of strong-willed heroines, most of them as compellingly enigmatic as Garbo herself.

Born September 18, 1905, Stockholm, Sweden. 
Died April 15, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32820">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 07:23:01.496594+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Aretha Louise Franklin</title>
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        American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. In 1987 she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.



Born March 25, 1942, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32821">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 07:27:30.66813+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Ella Fitzgerald was born here</title>
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        American singer who became world famous for the wide range and rare sweetness of her voice. She became an international legend during a career that spanned some six decades.

Born April 25, 1917, Newport News, Va., U.S.
Died June 15, 1996, Beverly Hills, Calif.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32822">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 13:04:07.851919+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amelia Earhart was born here</title>
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        American aviator, one of the world's most celebrated, who was the first woman to fly alone over the Atlantic Ocean. In January 1935 she made a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a longer distance than that from the United States to Europe. Earhart was the first person to fly that hazardous route successfully; all previous attempts had ended in disaster. She set out in 1937 to fly around the world, with Fred Noonan as her navigator, in a twin-engine Lockheed Electra. After completing more than two-thirds of the distance, her plane vanished in the central Pacific near the International Date Line.

Amelia Mary Earhart. Born July 24, 1897, Atchison, Kansas, U.S. Died July 2, 1937, near Howland Island, central Pacific Ocean.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32823">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Isadora Duncan</title>
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        American dancer whose teaching and performances helped free ballet from its conservative restrictions and presaged the development of modern expressive dance. She was among the first to raise interpretive dance to the status of creative art.

Original name (until 1894)  Angela Duncan. Born May 26, 1877, or May 27, 1878, San Francisco, California, U.S.
died September 14, 1927, Nice, France.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32824">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Emily Dickinson lived here</title>
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        American lyric poet who has been called "the New England mystic" and who experimented with poetic rhythms and rhymes. Almost all her poetry was published posthumously. Her 1,775 poems and her letters, which survive in almost as great a number, reveal a passionate, witty woman and a scrupulous craftsman who made an art not only of her poetry but also of her correspondence and her life.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 
Born Dec. 10, 1830, Amherst, Mass., U.S.
Died May 15, 1886, Amherst.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32825">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-12 17:22:07.459536+00:00</dc:date>
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        American painter and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists.

Cassatt lived in Europe for five years as a young girl. She was tutored privately in art in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1861-65, but she preferred learning on her own and in 1866 traveled to Europe to study. In 1874 Cassatt chose Paris as her permanent residence and established her studio there. She shared with the Impressionists an interest in experiment and in using bright colours inspired by the out-of-doors. Cassatt urged her wealthy American friends and relatives to buy Impressionist paintings, and in this way, more than through her own works, she exerted a lasting influence on American taste. 
Born May 22, 1844, Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa., U.S.
died June 14, 1926, Chateau de Beaufresne, near Paris, France<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32826">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Hattie Ophelia Caraway, Arkansas Senator</title>
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        In 1902 she married Thaddeus H. Caraway, who subsequently became a congressman and then a U.S. senator for Arkansas.

When Thaddeus died in November 1931 Hattie Caraway was appointed by the governor to fill her husband's seat until a special election could be held; she thereby became the second woman (after Rebecca Felton, 1922) to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She won a special election (January 1932) to fill the few remaining months of her late husband's term. She won reelection in her own right to the seat later in 1932 with the help of Louisiana governor Huey Long, who campaigned for her. Caraway was reelected again in 1938 but failed in her bid for a third term in 1944. In her 13 years in the Senate, she was the first woman to preside over a session of that body and the first to serve as a committee chairman.

Born Feb. 1, 1878, near Bakerville, Tenn., U.S.
died Dec. 21, 1950, Falls Church, Va.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32827">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-26 18:58:12.022616+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Hannah Arendt was born here</title>
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        German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism. Arendt's reputation as a major political thinker was established by her Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which also treated 19th-century anti-Semitism, imperialism, and racism. Arendt viewed the growth of totalitarianism as the outcome of the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. 

Born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany, died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 13:09:39.930706+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Diane Arbus lived here</title>
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        American photographer, best known for her compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society. n 1971 Arbus committed suicide. A collection of her photos was published in 1972 in connection with a successful, major exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. That same year her work was shown at the Venice Biennale, marking the first time that an American photographer received that distinction.

Born March 14, 1923, New York, New York, U.S., died July 26, 1971, New York City
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:57:38.480522+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Susan B. Anthony lived here</title>
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        Pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote.

Born Feb. 15, 1820, Adams, Mass., U.S.
died March 13, 1906, Rochester, N.Y.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32830">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:57:09.065883+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Catharine A. MacKinnon was born here</title>
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        American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography.
n 1974, while still in law school, MacKinnon became interested in an early case involving sexual harassment and put together an argument to bolster the legal claim of the woman at the centre of the case. That argumentâ€”that sexual harassment in the workplace is also sex discrimination and therefore a violation of federal lawâ€”grew into MacKinnon's first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1978). In 1986 the Supreme Court, hearing its first sexual harassment case, agreed with MacKinnon's argument by ruling unanimously that sexual harassment is sex discrimination.
Born Oct. 7, 1946, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32831">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:56:20.353109+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Liliuokalani was Queen here</title>
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        first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898. As head of the Oni pa'a (Stand Firm) movement, whose motto was "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" Liliuokalani fought bitterly against annexation of the islands by the United States. Annexation nonetheless occurred in July 1898. In that year she published Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen and composed "Aloha Oe," a song ever afterward beloved in the islands. Thereafter she withdrew from public life, enjoying a government pension and the homage of islanders and visitors alike. 

Born Sept. 2, 1838, Honolulu, Hawaii,
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<title>Rita Levi-Montalcini lived here</title>
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        Neurologist who, with biochemist Stanley Cohen, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of a bodily substance that stimulates and influences the growth of nerve cells. 

Born April 22, 1909, Turin, Italy.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32833">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:54:54.258909+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born here</title>
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        American astronomer known for her discovery of the relationship between period and luminosity in Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that vary regularly in brightness in periods ranging from a few days to several months.

Born July 4, 1868, Lancaster, Mass., U.S., 
died Dec. 12, 1921, Cambridge, Mass.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32834">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:14:52.783932+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Oprah Winfrey was born here</title>
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        American television personality, actress, and entrepreneur whose syndicated daily talk show was among the most popular of the genre. She became one of the richest and most influential women in the United States.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32840">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 12:13:20.126545+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Bessie Smith was born here</title>
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        American singer, one of the greatest of blues vocalists.

Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1919 she was discovered by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers. Known in her lifetime as the "Empress of the Blues" Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and whose art expressed the frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans.  Born April 15, 1898?, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S., 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:29:15.161869+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Rosa Parks didn't give up her seat</title>
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        African American civil rights activist whose refusal to relinquish her seat on a public bus to a white man precipitated the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama, which is recognized as the spark that ignited the U.S. civil rights movement.

Born February 4, 1913, Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.,
died October 24, 2005, Detroit, Michigan<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32842">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 11:33:59.963099+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Toni Morrison was born here</title>
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        American writer noted for her examination of black experience (particularly black female experience) within the black community. She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. The central theme of Morrison's novels is the black American experience; in an unjust society her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32843">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-02-12 18:07:43.61813+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mary Edwards Walker was born here</title>
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        Dr. Walker, in 1855, was one of the first women in the United States to earn a medical degree. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Dr. Walker volunteered to work on the Civil War battlefields caring for the wounded. Denied a commission as a medical officer because she was a woman, she volunteered anyway and eventually was appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. Captured by the Confederates in 1864, she was exchanged only after she spent four months in a Richmond, Virginia prison.he lectured throughout the United States and abroad on women's rights, dress reform, health and temperance issues, and sexual and political equality. She tried to vote, but was turned away. She rejected corsets and hoop-skirted dresses for the more practical pantsuits (trousers, jackets, top hats) and found herself arrested in New York City for impersonating a man.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32899">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:27:38.537392+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Annie Dodge Wauneka fought tuberculosis here</title>
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        Annie Dodge Wauneka, tribal leader of the Navajo Nation and public health activist, worked tirelessly to improve the health and welfare of the Navajo Tribe and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis nationwide. Wauneka gained election in 1951 to the Tribal Council, the second woman ever so elected.

During her three terms in office, Wauneka led the fight against tuberculosis. She wrote a dictionary to translate English words into Navajo for modern medical techniques, such as vaccination. Her weekly radio broadcasts, in the Navajo language, explained how modern medicine could help improve health among the Navajo.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32900">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:20:34.776437+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Amina reigned here from 1560-1610</title>
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        Queen Amina headed the northern Nigerian Hausa city-state of Zaria. It is thought that perhaps the Hausa were matrilineal people at that time since having a woman as queen was not all that rare. A great military leader, Amina brought most of the other Hausaland city-states into her orbit, and is credited with encouraging them to surround themselves with huge defensive mud walls. She also opened up trade routes to the south, enriching Zaria's economy with gold, slaves and cola nuts.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33169">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 13:33:12.584296+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mbande Nzinga ruled here from 1582-1663</title>
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        Nzinga (or Jinga) was the colorful queen of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms. She is honored for her resistance against the Portuguese who were increasingly occupying all of what is now known as Angola. Constantly driven east by the Portuguese, Nzinga organized a powerful guerrilla army, conquered the Matamba, and developed alliances to control the slave routes. She even allied with the Dutch, who helped her stop the Portuguese advancement. After a series of decisive setbacks, Nzinga negotiated a peace treaty with the Portuguese, but still refused to pay tribute to the Portuguese king.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33170">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 13:35:56.646247+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Zora Neale Hurston studied folklore here</title>
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        American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. In 1934 she published her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, which was well received by critics for its portrayal of African American life uncluttered by stock figures or sentimentality. Mules and Men, a study of folkways among the African American population of Florida, followed in 1935. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), a novel, Tell My Horse (1938), a blend of travel writing and anthropology based on her investigations of voodoo in Haiti, and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), a novel, firmly established her as a major author.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33171">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 13:57:33.482473+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda lived and wrote here</title>
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        Cuban playwright and poet who is considered one of the foremost Romantic writers of the 19th century and one of the greatest women poets.

In 1836 Gomez went to Spain, where, except for a short period from 1859 to 1863, she lived for the rest of her life. During her Cuban stay she had a strong influence on Cuban literature. Her first poems, originally published under the pseudonym of La Peregrina (The Pilgrim), were collected in 1841 into a volume entitled Poesias liricas ("Lyrical Poems"). Combining the classical style of Manuel Jose Quintana with her own romantic vision, tinged with a pessimism born of much personal suffering, these poems rank among the most poignant in all Spanish literature. Her plays, distinctive for their poetic diction and lyrical passages, are based chiefly on historic models; her play Alfonso Munio (1844; rev. ed., Munio Alfonso, 1869), based on the life of Alfonso X, and Saul (1849), a biblical drama, achieved popular success. Her novels, such as Sab (1841), an anti-slavery work, are now almost completely forgotten. Twice widowed and with many lovers, she has been the subject of several biographies.

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<dc:date>2006-01-23 14:03:50.858006+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Rigoberta Menchu seeks social justice he</title>
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        Guatemalan Indian-rights activist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992.

Menchu was a Mayan Indian of the Quicha group. Her father, a leader of a peasant organization opposed to Guatemala's military government, died in a fire while protesting human-rights abuses by the military. Her younger brother was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a military death squad in 1979, and her mother was kidnapped, raped, mutilated, and murdered by soldiers the following year. Menchu fled to Mexico in 1981 and was cared for there by members of a liberal Roman Catholic group. She soon joined international efforts to make the Guatemalan government cease its brutal counterinsurgency campaigns against Indian peasants, becoming a skilled public speaker and organizer in the course of her efforts.

Menchu gained international prominence in 1983 with her widely translated book I, Rigoberta Menchu, in which she tells the story of her impoverished youth and recounts in horrifying detail the torture-murders of her brother and mother. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her continuing efforts to achieve social justice and mutual reconciliation in Guatemala. In the late 1990s her autobiography became the centre of controversy after its veracity was questioned, most notably by David Stoll in Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (1999). Despite alleged inaccuracies in her story, Menchu continued to earn praise for bringing international attention to the situation in Guatemala. In 2004 she accepted President Oscar Berger's offer to help implement the country's peace accords.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33173">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 14:48:15.678116+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Gabriela Mistral was born here</title>
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        Gabriela Mistral
pseudonym of  Lucila Godoy Alcayaga.  Chilean poet, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945).

Of Spanish, Basque, and Indian descent, Mistral grew up in a village of northern Chile and became a schoolteacher at age 15, advancing later to the rank of college professor. Throughout her life she combined writing with a career as an educator, cultural minister, and diplomat; her diplomatic assignments included posts in Madrid, Lisbon, Genoa, and Nice.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33174">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 14:45:54.002945+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Pocahantas was born here</title>
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        Powhatan Indian woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them. Pocahontas was a young girl of age 10 or 11 when she first became acquainted with the colonists who settled in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607. Pocahontas became a frequent visitor to the settlement and a friend of Smith. Her playful nature made her a favourite, and her interest in the English proved valuable to them. She sometimes brought gifts of food from her father to relieve the hard-pressed settlers. She also saved the lives of John Smith and other colonists in a trading party in January 1609 by warning them of an ambush. After Smith's return to England in late 1609, relations between the settlers and Powhatan deteriorated. The English informed Pocahontas that Smith had died. She did not return to the colony for the next four years. In the spring of 1613, however, Sir Samuel Argall took her prisoner. Treated with courtesy during her captivity, Pocahontas was converted to Christianity and was baptized Rebecca. She accepted a proposal of marriage from John Rolfe, a distinguished settler; both the Virginia governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and Chief Powhatan agreed to the marriage, which took place in April 1614. Following the marriage, peace prevailed between the English and the Indians as long as Powhatan lived.
Also called  Matoaka  and  Amonute , Christian name  Rebecca . Born c. 1596, near present-day Jamestown, Virginia, U.S.
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 14:57:41.64959+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Mother Teresa helped the poor here</title>
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        The daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loretto at the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary and sailed only six weeks later to India as a teacher. She taught for 17 years at the order's school in Calcutta (Kolkata).

In 1946 Sister Teresa experienced her "call within a call," which she considered divine inspiration to devote herself to caring for the sick and poor. She then moved into the slums she had observed while teaching. Municipal authorities, upon her petition, gave her a pilgrim hostel, near the sacred temple of Kali, where she founded her order in 1948. Sympathetic companions soon flocked to her aid. Dispensaries and outdoor schools were organized. Mother Teresa adopted Indian citizenship, and her Indian nuns all donned the sari as their habit.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33186">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-23 16:03:34.373258+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike was PM</title>
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        Stateswoman who, upon her party's victory in the 1960 Ceylon general election, became the world's first woman prime minister. She left office in 1965 but returned to serve two more terms (1970-77, 1994-2000) as prime minister. The family she founded with her late husband, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, rose to great prominence in Sri Lankan politics. Bandaranaike carried on her husband's program of socialist economic policies, neutrality in international relations, and the active encouragement of the Buddhist religion and of the Sinhalese language and culture. Her government nationalized various economic enterprises and enforced a law making Sinhalese the sole official language. By 1964 a deepening economic crisis and the SLFP's coalition with the Marxist Lanka Sama Samaja Party (Ceylon Socialist Party) had eroded popular support for her government, which was resoundingly defeated in the general election of 1965. In 1970, however, her socialist coalition, the United Front, regained power, and as prime minister Bandaranaike pursued more radical policies. The failure to deal with ethnic rivalries and economic distress led, in the election of July 1977, to the SLFP's retaining only 8 of the 168 seats in the National Assembly, and Bandaranaike was replaced as prime minister.

In 1980 the Sri Lanka parliament stripped Bandaranaike of her political rights and barred her from political office, but in 1986 President J.R. Jayawardene granted her a pardon that retored her rights. After regaining a seat in parliament in 1989 she became the leader of the opposition. Failing health forced Bandaranaike to resign her post in August 2000. Shortly after voting in the October parliamentary elections, she suffered a heart attack and died. 
In full  Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike, 
born April 17, 1916, Ratnapura, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka)
died October 10, 2000, Colombo, Sri Lanka
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<title>Cixi was one of the most powerful women</title>
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        consort of the Xianfeng emperor (reigned 1850-61), mother of the Tongzhi emperor (reigned 1861-75), adoptive mother of the Guangxu emperor (reigned 1875-1908), and a towering presence over the Chinese empire for almost half a century. Ruling through a clique of conservative, corrupt officials and maintaining authority over the Manchu imperial house (Qing dynasty, 1644-1911/12), she became one of the most powerful women in the history of China.

Wade-Giles romanization  Tz'u-hsi  also called  Xiaoqin , or  Xianhuanghou  byname  Empress Dowager, born November 29, 1835, Beijing, China
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<dc:date>2006-01-24 14:30:09.895184+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Abbie Goldbas-My Mom!</title>
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        My mom helped change the world in many different ways. Not only is she the proud parent of Seven Children, she is also a Family Court Lawyer, a part time Proffesor of Psychology and holds a couple of Masters Degrees. But what really makes her an amzing woman is her undying faith and belief in her childrens abilities and potential. My mom loves laughter, food and curling up in bed with a good book. Thanks for being there for me! Love Paige <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33241">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-24 13:37:58.818285+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Su Boliou (My Mom)</title>
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<title>Marie Laveau Priestess/Pharmacist</title>
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        Born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana in 1794 and the daughter of a white planter and a black woman. She was the undisputed Queen of Voodoo. She was a hairdresser by trade but also an herbalist.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33278">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-24 16:54:09.946929+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Emma Goldman - Anarchist</title>
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        was a Lithuanian-born anarcho-communist known for her anarchist writings and speeches. Adopted by First-wave feminists, she has been lionized as an iconic "rebel woman" feminist. Goldman played a pivotal role in the development of anarchism in the US and Europe throughout the first half of the twentieth century.On February 11, 1916, she was arrested and imprisoned again for her distribution of birth control literature. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33280">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-24 16:57:41.937724+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Dorothy Mary Allen was born here- My Mom</title>
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        Dorothy died of breast cancer at the age of 43 but in those 43 years touched the lives of countless people. She is known in our family as the glue- the woman with the energy to keep everyone united and at peace. In the broader community of Southeastern Massachusetts, she is known as the woman who dedicated her life to developmentally disabled children and adults and after whom the Special Olympics relay race will be forever named. To me, she is known as the setting sun, best friend, mentor and pillar of strength, working 3 jobs as a single mom to teach her daughter she would accomplish anything. I am eternally grateful for her generous sharing of wisdom and a full 21 years of her company.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33361">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-25 13:12:05.655815+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Kate Sheppard -  SUFFRAGIST</title>
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        The leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand - the first country in the world to grant universal adult suffrage to men and women equally. Kate was a source of inspiration to suffragist and campaigners for equality between the sexes, both in New Zealand and throughout the world.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33250">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Betty Roberts Maddux</title>
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        My mother<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/37746">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<title>Ayn Rand was born here</title>
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        St Petersburg, Russia<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/2003159">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-08-23 03:15:30.381845+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Trish Stratus</title>
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<dc:date>2009-02-20 23:52:18.353865+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Calamity Jane Was Born Here</title>
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<dc:date>2009-03-08 13:17:13.745865+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Helen Keller was born here</title>
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        American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.

Keller was afflicted at the age of 19 months with an illness (possibly scarlet fever) that left her blind, deaf, and mute. She was examined by Alexander Graham Bell at the age of six; as a result he sent to her a 20-year-old teacher, Anne Sullivan (Macy) from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, which Bell's son-in-law directed. Sullivan, a remarkable teacher, remained with Keller from March 1887 until her own death in October 1936.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32836">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:33:29.694283+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Maya Angelou Was Born Here</title>
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        born Marguerite Ann Johnson on April 4, 1928),she is an American memoirist and poet. She has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer".<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/4479454">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2009-03-08 13:26:13.573677+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Madam C.J. Walker became the first african-American Millionairess here</title>
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        Madam C.J. Walker - Sarah Breedlove - was a highly successful entrepreneur, widely considered to be the first African-American millionairess. Walker was known and respected not only for her business acumen but for her inspirational political and social advocacy and her philanthropy.

The daughter of former slaves, Walker worked initially as a washerwoman until she devised a hair care and grooming system to meet the needs of African-American women in 1905. Supervising the manufacture of a variety of products, she also developed an enormous marketing network, headquartered in Indianapolis, that employed thousands of African-American women and was the largest African-American owned business in the nation. Walker encouraged women's economic independence by training others and by serving as a powerful role model.

As the wealthiest African-American woman of her time, Walker used her prominent position to oppose racial discrimination, and her massive wealth to support civic, educational and social institutions to assist African-Americans.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32898">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 11:56:04.967179+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Eva Peron moved Argentine politics here</title>
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        Second wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, who, during her husband's first term as president (1946-52), became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Although she never held any government post, Evita acted as de facto minister of health and labour, awarding generous wage increases to the unions, who responded with political support for Peron. After her death, Evita remained a formidable influence in Argentine politics. Her working-class followers tried unsuccessfully to have her canonized, and her enemies, in an effort to exorcise her as a national symbol of Peronism, stole her body in 1955 after Juan Peron was overthrown and secreted it in Italy for 16 years. In 1971 the military government, bowing to Peronist demands, turned over her remains to her exiled widower in Madrid. After Juan Peron died in office in 1974, his third wife, Isabel Peron, hoping to gain favour among the populace, repatriated the remains and installed them next to the deceased leader in a crypt in the presidential palace. Two years later a new military junta hostile to Peronism removed the bodies; Evita's remains were finally interred in the Duarte family crypt in Recoleta cemetery.



In full  Eva Duarte de Peron, byname  Evita. Born May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, Arg.
died July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33175">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-03-09 06:18:46.558385+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Jane Goodall works here</title>
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        Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall.  Goodall, who was interested in animal behaviour from an early age, left school at age 18.  in June 1960 she established a camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a national park) so that she could observe the behaviour of chimpanzees in the region.   Over the years Goodall was able to correct a number of misunderstandings about chimpanzees. She found, for example, that the animals are omnivorous, not vegetarian; that they are capable of making and using tools; and, in short, that they have a set of hitherto unrecognized complex and highly developed social behaviours. <br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32768">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 13:07:32.714966+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Birthplace of Joan of Arc</title>
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        Birthplace of Joan of Arc<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/38836">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-04-03 19:51:09.45906+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator</title>
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        Egyptian queen famous in history and drama, lover of Julius Caesar and later the wife of Mark Antony. She became queen on the death of her father, Ptolemy XII, in 51 BC, ruling successively with her two brothers Ptolemy XIII and Ptolemy XIV and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar. After the Roman armies of Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) defeated their combined forces, Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide, and Egypt fell under Roman domination. Her ambition no less than her charm actively influenced Roman politics at a crucial period, and she came to represent, as did no other woman of antiquity, the prototype of the romantic femme fatale. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32760">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-21 12:45:11.694918+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Frieda Kahlo lived here</title>
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        exican painter noted for her intense, brilliantly coloured self-portraits painted in a primitivistic style. Though she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/32819">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2006-01-20 13:11:33.230998+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Doi Takako was the first woman to lead a Japanese political party</title>
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        Japanese politician, educator, and head (1986-91) of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP; in 1991-96 called the Social Democratic Party of Japan (SDPJ), later simplified to Social Democratic Party). She was the first woman ever to head a political party in Japan.<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/33189">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-29 08:46:56.586774+00:00</dc:date>
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<title>Sally Morgan Indigenous author lived here</title>
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Professor Sally Morgan, indigenous author and artist lived here.
Read "My Place" (1987)<br /><br /><a href="http://platial.com/post/1080854">Map this on Platial</a><br /> 
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<dc:date>2007-03-16 10:31:08.017326+00:00</dc:date>
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