Known as one of the most famous deaf women in history, Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880. She was only 19 months old when an illness left her deaf and blind. At first, her family was unable to communicate with her, but thanks to the help of a teacher named Anne Sullivan, sh...
Following on from our lists of evil women and men in history, we are introducing our first list of great people. The women I have selected have been great leaders, warriors, visionaries, or humanitarians. It has been incredibly difficult to rank this list (with the exception of position 1)...
Eleanor was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe and the world during the High Middle Ages. Eleanor inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and Poitiers after her father’s death when she was only 15. As a result, Eleanor became an independent ruler in her own right receiving t...
Top Women on the Web Rosie the Riveter. Wiki Commons By Jone Johnson Lewis Updated on September 08, 2024 Using internet searches as a parameter, we've created a compilation of the 100 most famous women in history, listed here in ascending order of popularity (that is, No. 1 is the one...
A number of famous female dancers had a huge influence in the history of dance. Let's celebrate these women and explore why their dancing left such a dazzling impression.
Women have always been a constant in wrestling. They might not always be inside the ring but a wrestling promotion’s roster is usually full of the fairer sex in some form. Recently, WWE has pushed their women’s division through their reality show Total Divas and moves their “reality ...
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While we can often name more famous men in history than women, women’s accomplishments have influenced generations and continue to impact us today (fun fact: Hedy Lamarr, an actress famous in the 1940s and 50s, invented the technology that would go on to enable Bluetooth). To celebrate Wo...
We salute and honor a diverse group of women who have made significant contributions in higher...West, Cassandra
It is the first installment of Ozu’s so-called “Noriko trilogy”—the others are Early Summer and Tokyo Story —in each of which Hara portrays a young woman named Noriko, though the three Norikos are distinct, unrelated characters, linked primarily by their status as single women in ...