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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #210 on: May 12, 2007, 12:44:25 am »
Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini (born June 18, 1952 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian actress, filmmaker, author, philanthropist, and model. Daughter of Ingrid Berman and Roberto Rossellini

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #211 on: May 12, 2007, 09:22:00 am »
Regine Hildebrandt
East German biologist, mother of three and politician

She looked like a man, was completely unpretentious and had no sense of dress style what so ever, but she was a gorgeous woman none the less. As a minister for health and social affairs in Brandenburg, they called her the "Mother Courage of the East". People loved her outspokenness (in a thick Berlin accent), her social engagement and her bubbly personality. She was by far the most prominent politician in the East and also very popular in the West. She died of breast cancer at the age of 60. Too early!!

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Couldn't agree more.

Another one of her:


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #212 on: May 12, 2007, 09:51:14 am »
Alice Schwarzer


Born 1942. German feminist and journalist; publisher of the German feminist journal Emma.
Famous for her battles in the 1970ies for more liberal laws regarding abortion, for fighting against pornography, criticising political islamism and on and on. She fights for women's rights on many fronts.
She's disputatious and disputed - a fighter.

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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #213 on: May 12, 2007, 10:15:06 am »
Carole King and Joni Mitchell
Two of the Most Influential Singer/Songwriters of the 20th Century.




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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #214 on: May 12, 2007, 12:52:12 pm »
Couldn't agree more.

Another one of her:



Thanks Chrissi!  :D
And since we are speaking of Regine Hildebrandt, lets also mention the woman who could so phenominally parody her:

Anke Engelke
German actress, show host and comedy star 


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #215 on: May 15, 2007, 04:50:13 pm »

Julie Delpy

Wonderful actress, writer and director  :)


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #216 on: May 15, 2007, 05:02:33 pm »

Beautiful and sexy..
Actress, Kate Moennig..




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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #217 on: May 16, 2007, 02:29:33 am »
Sacajawea is well-known as the Indian woman who led Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition to find the Pacific Ocean. The truth is a bit different from the movie and children's book versions, however. In fact, Sacajawea was not officially a member of the expedition party. Her husband, Toussaint Charbonneau, was hired as an interpreter and took Sacajawea along. She was allowed to join the party as an unofficial member because the captains thought she would be useful to help in communicating with some of the Indian tribes they met and also in obtaining horses from her native tribe, the Shoshone.

The following information is taken from the book, "Sacajawea" by Harold P. Howard, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. This book is a comparison and compilation of the diaries of eight members of the party: Captains Lewis and Clark; Privates Joseph Whitehouse, Robert Frazier, and George Shannon; Sergeants Charles Floyd, who was the only member of the party who died during the journey, Patrick Gass and John Ordway.

Sacajawea was born about 1790 in what is now the state of Idaho. She was one of the "Snake People," otherwise known as the Shoshone. Her name in Hidatsa was Tsi-ki-ka-wi-as, "Bird Woman. In Shoshone, her name means "Boat Pusher." She was stolen during a raid by a Hidatsa tribe when she was a young girl and taken to their village near what is now Bismark, N. Dakota. Some time afterward the French-Canadian trapper and fur trader, Charbonneau bought Sacajawea and her companion, Otter Woman, as wives. When her husband joined the expedition at Fort Mandan in the Dakotas, Sacajawea was about 16 years old and pregnant.

The expedition spent the winter at Fort Mandan and Sacajawea's baby, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau, was born on Feb. 11 or 12, 1805. He was also given the Shoshone name, Pomp, meaning First Born.




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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #218 on: May 16, 2007, 05:30:35 pm »

One of the bestselling writers in the US and the world..
And one who has given me countless hours of pleasurable reading..


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Re: Strong, gorgeous women!
« Reply #219 on: May 17, 2007, 01:29:00 am »
Maria Tallchief (January 24, 1925) is a retired American ballerina.

From 1942 to 1947 she danced with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, but she is best known for her time with the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1965.

She was born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief in Fairfax, Oklahoma on January 24, 1925, to an Osage Nation father and a Scotch-Irish mother. Her father was a chief of the tribe Osage.  Choreographer George Balanchine wrote several of his most famous works for her. The two were married on August 16, 1946; the marriage ended in 1952. They had no children. She was the first prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet from 1947 to 1960, where Balanchine was the principal choreographer. Her performance of Balanchine's The Firebird in 1949 and their earlier collaboration at the Paris Opera elevated Maria Tallchief onto the world stage. She also originated the role of the Sugarplum Fairy in Balanchine's version of The Nutcracker.

Much of the world had never seen anything like Maria Tallchief. Admired by millions, she became America's preeminent dancer. In 1953, President Dwight Eisenhower declared her Woman of the Year. She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1996.

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