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| 1. | Born in 1910 in Yugoslavia, she felt a calling to help the poor and left home at the age of 18 to become a Roman Catholic nun. She later founded the only Catholic religious order still growing in membership. In 1979, she won the Nobel Prize for Peace for her life-long work among the poor and dying of India. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 2. | At the age of 19 months, she was struck with a fever that left her blind and deaf. A devoted tutor, Anne Sullivan Macy taught her to read, write, and speak. Despite her handicaps, she spent the remainder of her life leading humanitarian efforts to vastly improve the quality of living for the disabled. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
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| 3. | She married Charles, Prince of Wales, in 1981 at St. Paul's Cathedral, before a congregation of 2,500 people. An estimated 750 million people worldwide watched the televised ceremony. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 4. | She was the pioneer crusader for women's rights in the United States and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1892 to 1900. In 1979 she became the first woman to have her face appear on U.S. currency. (3 words - include spaces in puzzle) |
| 5. | From 1951 to 1957, she played the wacky redheaded wife of her real-life husband, Desi Arnaz. She paved the way for the 30-minute sit-com to gradually replace the once-dominant hour-long comedy variety show. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 6. | She is best known for her refusal, on December 1, 1955, to give up her seat to a white passenger on a racially segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested and fined, but her action led to a successful boycott of the Montgomery buses by African-American riders. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 7. | Born in 1821, she was known as a humanitarian and founder of the American Red Cross. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 8. | As the Zionist Labor leader, she served as Israel's foreign minister from 1956 to 1966. In 1969 she became Israel's fourth Prime Minister. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 9. | This television journalist debuted as the first woman co-anchor of a network evening news program in October 1976, having been offered an unprecedented $1 million annual salary. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 10. | In 1993, she was nominated to the position of U.S. Attorney General by President Clinton and became the first woman ever to hold the position. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 11. | Although history does not provide proof, it is believed this Philadelphia seamstress and upholsterer was the legendary designer and creator of the American flag. The United States government issued a commemorative postage stamp in 1952 in celebration of the two hundredth anniversary of her birth. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 12. | Born in 1882 and raised in London, she was one of the most notable Modernist writers, completing nine novels, one play, over five volumes of essays, portraits, memoirs, reviews, more than fourteen volumes of diaries and letters, and forty-six short stories. Her literary career plan was to reshape the way novels were known by deeply engaging the reader with the story's structure as well as its content. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 13. | As winner of 17 Grammy Awards and numerous other honors throughout her career, this legendary singer has been labeled the "Queen of Soul." In 1967, she recorded two of her trademark tunes, "(You Make Me Feel Like a) Natural Woman" and "Respect." (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 14. | In 1971, she became the first woman athlete to win more than $100,000 in a single year. She gained even greater fame in 1972 when she won the Wimbledon women's singles, the U.S. Open singles, and the French Open. She won a record 20 Wimbledon championships (singles, doubles, and mixed doubles) during her tennis career. (3 words - include spaces in puzzle) |
| 15. | Born a slave, she was one of the most famous opponents of slavery in the years before the U.S. Civil War. Over the course of some sixteen years, she guided approximately three hundred other slaves to freedom in the North via a network of safe houses called the "Underground Railroad." (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
| 16. | In 1989 she became the first woman bishop in the Worldwide Anglican Communion providing a towering example of how far women had come in their struggle for equality in mainline Protestant churches. (2 words - include space in puzzle) |
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