WOMEN WHO WERE TRULY INSPIRATIONAL.Byline: DENISE ROBERTSONSURVEY to find out who we females see as the most inspirational woman has surprised me. Thankfully it isn't Madonna. It is Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. , the pioneer of radium therapy radium therapy n. The use of radium in radiotherapy. . Second comes Mother Theresa and third Princess Diana. Rosa Parks, the US civil rights icon whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in 1955 changed the course of American history, is there and so is brave Aung San Sun Kyi, under house arrest for trying to bring democracy to Burma. The survey was carried out to promote the release on DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. of the Angelina Jolie film, The Changeling, which is the true story of an inspirational woman who fights for her abducted child. Directed by Clint Eastwood, who also wrote the theme music, it's an edge of the seat movie which was nominated for a clutch of Oscars. And to think I spent my girlhood thinking Eastwood was only a gorgeous spaghetti Western hunk with nothing above the neck! CAPTION(S): HISTORY MAKER Rosa Parks, civil rights icon, was arrested in Montgomery, Albama in 1956, two months after refusing to give up her bus seat for a white passeng |
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