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Women Flashcards

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Four Square Gospel founder

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Aimee Semple McPherson

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“Queen of the West”

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Dale Evans

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U.S. Ambassador to Italy - 1953

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Clare Booth Luce

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First Woman: Secretary of Transportation

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Elizabeth Dole

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First Woman: Winner of two Nobel prizes

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Marie Curie

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Hull House founder

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Jane Addams

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Abe Lincoln’s young love

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Ann Ruttledge

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“Sweater Girl”

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Lana Turner

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Miss America 1971

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Phyllis George

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First test tube baby

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Louise Brown

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First Woman: Secretary of State

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Madelaine Albright

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“First Lady of the Silent Screen”

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Lillian Gish

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Emily Dickinson’s advisor

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Helent Hunt Jackson

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Burlesque queen who lived in France

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Josephine Baker

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Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1979

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Mother Teresa

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First Woman: Major party V.P. Candidate

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Geralidine Ferraro

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Maryland senator and congressperson

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Barbara Mikulski

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Washington governor - 1995-

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Dixie Lee Ray

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President of the Philippines - 1986-92

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Corazon Aquino

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20
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She replaced Vanessa Williams as Miss America

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Suzette Charles

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21
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First Woman: Citadel cadet

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Shannon Faulkner

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22
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“First Lady of the American Stage”

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Helen Hayes

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Wild West show sharp-shooter

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Annie Oakley

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Poetess from the island of Lesbos

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Sappho

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25
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First Woman: In the Indianapolis 500

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Janet Guthrie

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Founder of Bryn Mawr school for girls

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Edith Hamilton

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She testified against Clarence Thomas

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Anita Hill

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28
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Prime Minister of Israel - 1969-74

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Golda Meir (raised in Milwaukee)

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29
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“Queen of Soul”

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Aretha Franklin

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30
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“Queen of the Swashbucklers”

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Maureen O’Hara

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31
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First Woman: To receive the Congressional Medal of Honor

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Mary Walker

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32
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Supreme Court Justice appointed in 1993

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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33
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“Queen of Disco”

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Donna Summer

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34
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1990s etiquette advisor

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Martha Stewart

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35
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CNN’s British-Iranian reporter

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Christiane Amanpour

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36
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Friend of the James Gang

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Belle Starr

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37
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“The Poor Little Rich Girl”

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Barbara Hutton

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38
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First Woman: Presidential cabinet member

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Frances Perkins (FDR Administration)

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39
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First Woman: To break sound barrier

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Jacqueline Cochran

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40
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“Peekaboo Girl”

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Veronica Lake

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Bob Fosse’s “Red-Headed” wife

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Gwen Verdon

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42
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President of Argentina - 1975-76

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Isabel Peron

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43
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First Woman: To swim the English channel

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Gertrude Ederle

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44
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First Woman: Attorney General

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Janet Reno

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45
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“Girl in the Red Velvet Swing”

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Evelyn Nesbit Thaw

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46
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First Woman: in congress

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Jeannette Rankin (1916)

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47
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Helen Keller’s teacher

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Anne Sullivan

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48
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Prime Minister of India - 1966-77 - 1980-84

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Indira Gandhi

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49
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First Woman: Presidential candidate

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Victoria Woodhull (1872)

50
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Andre Sacarao’vs disident wife

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Elana Bonner

51
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She went around the world in 72 days - 1890

52
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American Impressionist Painter

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Mary Cassatt

53
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The Nun of Amherst of the Bell of Amherst

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Emily Dickinson

54
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“Queen of the Surf”

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Esther Williams

55
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First Woman: to co-anchor major nework news

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Barbara Walters

56
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U.S. Ambassador to Ghana

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Shirley Temple Black

57
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First Woman: American doctor

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Elizabeth Blackwell

58
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Miss America 1945

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Bess Myerson

59
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Titanic survivor from Leadville - CO

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(Unsinkable) Molly Brown

60
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First Woman: American Astronomer

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Maria Mitchell

61
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First Woman: Miss America

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Margaret Gorman (1921)

62
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Heiress kidnapped on February 5 - 1974

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Patty Hearst

63
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Algonquin Hotel “round table wit”

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Dorothy Parker

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1920s etiquette advisor

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Emily Post

65
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Chicago Mayor - 1979

66
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Italian teaching method innovator

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Maria Montessori

67
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She studied mountain gorillas

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Dian Fossey

68
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Paleoanthropologist who died in 1996

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Mary Leaky

69
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“America’s Sweetheart”

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Mary Pickford

70
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She studied chimpanzees

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Jane Goodall

71
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Amsterdam diarist

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Anne Frank

72
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“It Girl”

73
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President of Nicaragua - 1990-

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Violetta Chamorro

74
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First Woman: senator

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Hattie Caraway (1932)

75
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Franco-Prussian war nurse - Red Cross founder

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Clara Barton

76
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Prime Minister of Pakistan - 1988-90

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Benazir Bhutto

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Time-Life Korean War photographer

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Margaret Bourke-White

78
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Child - pulled from a Texas well - 1984

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Baby Jessica (McClure)

79
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“The last of the red hot mamas”

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Sophie Tucker

80
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Deaf Radcliffe graduate - 1904

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Helen Keller

81
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“The Lady with the Lamp”

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Florence Nightingale

82
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She said “Call me madam”

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Ethel Merman

83
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First Woman: U.S. balance beam gold medalist

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Shannon Miller

84
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First Woman: Stewardess

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Ellen Church

85
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First Woman: Born in an American Colony

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Virginia Dare

86
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Connecticut governor - 1975-80

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Ella Grasso

87
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First Woman: Supreme Court Justice

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Sandra Day O’Connor

88
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First president - Nat’l Women’s Suffrage Assn.

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Susan B. Anthony

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Teacher who perished in the Challenger Disaster

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Christa McAuliffe

90
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Miss America 1955

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Lee Meriwether

91
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“Sarong Girl”

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Dorothy Lamour

92
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Dante’s love

93
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Austrian born pioneer of child psychoanalysis

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Anna Freud

94
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Red-headed country music star

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Reba McIntyre

95
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Frederic Chopin’s lover

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George Sand

96
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Women’s rights leadr from Seneca Falls - NY

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

97
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First Woman: To fly nonstop around the world

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Jeanna Yeager

98
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Connecticut representative - 1943-47

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Clare Booth Luce

99
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“First Lady of Song”

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Ella Fitzgerald

100
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Miss America 1984

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Vanessa Williams

101
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Prime Minister of Canada - 1993

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Kim Cambell

102
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Minsky’s and Ziegfeld Follies burlesque dancer

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Gypsy Rose Lee

103
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Original Platinum Blond

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Jean Harlow

104
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Lord Nelson’s lover

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Emma (Lady) Hamilton

105
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Dshiell Hammet’s lover

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Lillian Helman

106
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First Woman: To win 100K on Star Search

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Jenny Jones

107
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New Jersey governor

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Christie Todd Whitman

108
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First Woman: In Gymnastics Hall of Fame

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Mary Lou Retton

109
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First Woman: Time Woman of the Year

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Wallis Simpson

110
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“The Pinup Girl”

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Betty Grable

111
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Frontier woman from Deadwood - SD

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Calamity Jane

112
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White House corrispondant who retired after 40 years

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Helen Thomas

113
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First Woman: Surgeon General

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Jocelyn Elders

114
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Pilot lost over the Pacific - 1937

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Amelia Earhart

115
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Slain Tejano singer

116
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Prime Minister of Great Britain - 1979-90

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Margaret Thatcher

117
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First Woman: Elected in both houses of congress

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Margaret Chase Smith

118
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“The Blond Bombshell”

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Jayne Mansfield

119
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Lady from Coventry - England

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Lady Godiva

120
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“The Bird Woman”

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Texas governor - 1991-95

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Ann Richards

122
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Southwestern painter of flowers and skyscapes

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Georgia O’Keefe

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