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Hedy Lamarr: Movie star, inventor of WiFi, cbsnews: The passion of the most beautiful woman in the world was inventing. She patented a frequency- hopping, spread-spectrum, radio guided torpedo which would be harder for enemies to detect by experiments involving synchronizing 20 player pianos, a basis for today's Wi-Fi. www.google.com/... #Hedy_Lemar tinyurl.com/y3...
Anne Frank [1941] Six million Jews died in the Holocaust. For many throughout the world, one teenage girl gave them a story and a face. She was Anne Frank, the adolescent who, according to her diary, retained her hope and humanity as she hid with her family in an Amsterdam attic.
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Stephen Hawking is turning 70, defying the odds of Lou Gehrig's disease. "I don't know of anyone who's survived this long," said Ammar Al-Chalabi, director of the Motor Neurone Disease Care and Research Centre at King's College London. He does not treat Hawking and described his longevity as "extraordinary."
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Jane Goodall; In July 1960, at the age of 26, Jane Goodall traveled from England to what is today Tanzania and bravely entered the little-known world of wild chimpanzees. She was equipped with nothing more than a notebook and a pair of binoculars. But with her unyielding patience and characteristic optimism, she won the trust of these initially shy creatures. She managed to open a window into their sometimes strange and often familiar-seeming lives. The public was fascinated and remains so to this day.
Eleanor Roosevelt was so inspiring and strong! She really wanted women and girls to be the best they could be!
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