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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #360 on: November 04, 2008, 05:48:44 pm »
Happy Election Day to all those going out to vote today...






I love this one Milli!!   :-*


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #361 on: November 05, 2008, 12:50:06 pm »
In honour of the occasion: Sarah Hussein Obama , Barack's happy old grandma in Kenya! ;D


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #362 on: November 05, 2008, 01:14:03 pm »
In honour of the occasion: Sarah Hussein Obama , Barack's happy old grandma in Kenya! ;D

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You oughta stop by here more often than every four effin' years, Anke.  ;D
Cheers for that great pic!


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #363 on: November 05, 2008, 05:46:16 pm »
You oughta stop by here more often than every four effin' years, Anke.  ;D

I know, I know...  :P

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #364 on: November 10, 2008, 05:28:02 am »
This is a sad occasion. Miriam Makeba, singer and civil rights campaigner from South Africa, just died aged 76. She obviously suffered a heart attack after a concert in Italy.  :'(



Rest in peace, "Mama Africa"! 

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #365 on: November 10, 2008, 04:42:47 pm »
This is a sad occasion. Miriam Makeba, singer and civil rights campaigner from South Africa, just died aged 76. She obviously suffered a heart attack after a concert in Italy.  :'(



Rest in peace, "Mama Africa"! 

Oh, a sad occasion for sure.

R.I.P.

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #366 on: November 10, 2008, 04:54:13 pm »
I've just bein going through this whole thread again, all 37 pages (just looking at the pics mostly, didn't read everything).
It really is a wonderful thread :).


Claudia Roth



German politician; chairwoman of the Green Party. Dedicated to Human Rights
and their adherence. When younger, she was manager
of the German rockband Ton, Steine, Scherben.

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #367 on: November 10, 2008, 05:01:18 pm »

I can't belive she's not yet in here!


Actress Kristin Scott Thomas



I first noticed her in Four weddings and a funeral. All women went weak
for Hugh Grant, which I never understood,
I only thought you keep him, I go with this woman. The Horse Whisperer was
a tough call between her and Robert Redford :laugh:.

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #368 on: November 22, 2008, 05:26:37 pm »
I can't belive she's not yet in here!


Actress Kristin Scott Thomas



I first noticed her in Four weddings and a funeral. All women went weak
for Hugh Grant, which I never understood,
I only thought you keep him, I go with this woman. The Horse Whisperer was
a tough call between her and Robert Redford :laugh:.
;D  This is a great post Chrissi!!  Kristin Scott Thomas's character definitely was great in Four Weddings and a Funeral... very alluring.


Also!  I want to welcome this classic, wonderful and long-running thread to its new home in the Women Today forum!!  :D



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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #369 on: November 25, 2008, 01:49:32 pm »
I have been so remiss in not sooner expressing my warm thanks to Milli for all the inspirational and interesting women you have brought to our attention over the last month or so. Thank you!!:-*

I must admit that a number of them I hadn't even heard of - probably I myself and a curriculum hell-bent on repressing women's contributions to society and human progress are at equal fault in this. All the more grateful I am that you've posted about them so that my knowledge was improved, as well as my admiration for strong, gorgeous women throughout history and at the present day.


Here's another strong and gorgeous woman, whom I discovered for the first time when on vacation in the US this September. The Rachel Maddow show became my immediate and only "must see" while over there. This is one extremely sharp and intelligent, knowledgable, witty and positive woman with immense powers of expression.  I just love her, and after I returned home I've regularly continued to watch bits and pieces of her show on YouTube, her interview with Barack Obama, her visits to Conan o'Brien and Jay Leno etc. Wow, can that woman ever hold her own!