Mary Robinson was born on the 21st of May 1994. She studied law atTrinityCollege,DublinandHarvardLawSchool. She is married to Nicholas Robinson. They have three children. Mary Robinson served as the seventh Irish president . She was the first female president ofIreland. She was in office from the 3rd of December 1990 […]
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Constance’s birth name was Constance Georgina Gore-Booth. Constance was born on 4th February 1868 at Buckingham Gate in London. She was an Irish Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil politician. Constance is famous because she was the first woman in politics elected to the British House of Commons. However she didn’t […]
Clare Boothe Luce was born on March 10th 1903 and died October 9th 1987 at the age of 84 because she had cancer. Clare was one of the first American women ambassadors and an author whose writing went from fashion to journalism to war-reporting and drama including the play “The […]
Angela Merkel is the German chancellor (a chancellor is the same as a taoiseach or prime minister). She was born on the 17 July 1954 in Hamburg Germany. She is now 57. She studied physics from 1973 to 1978 in the University of Leipzig She worked and studied at the […]
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian female cosmonaut. She was born on 6 March 1937. She grew up in Maslennikovo, Tatayevsky,Yaroslavl, Oblast. Tereshkova started school in 1945 but then left in 1953 and continued her education by correspondence courses. She became interested in sky diving and parachuting. Her father […]
She was the first woman to receive the U.S distinguished flying cross. Amelia was looking for some adventure so she went on a plane ride. That plane changed her life for ever. She raised some money and got flying lessons. Amelia did not go to college and she left school […]
Joan Benoit Samuelson is an American runner who won gold at the 1984 Summer Olympics inLos Angeles. She was born on May the 16th 1957 inCape Elizabeth,Maine She started running after she broke her leg, to help its recovery. This was the exact year the women’s marathon was introduced. As […]
Valentina was the first women to go to space. She is from Russia. She was born on March the 6th 1937. She left school early but developed an interest in skydiving. That was the reason why she was picked. She got chosen out of four hundred other applications and then […]
She was born 19th June 1945. She was educated in Methodist English High School in Burma. She had a talent for learning languages. She also studied at St Hugh’s College Oxford and at the University of London. Her father was a politician and she turned out to be a pro-democrasy […]
Suzanne Collins was born on the 10th of August 1962. She went to Alabama School of Fine Arts and she graduated fromIndianaUniversity. In 1991 she started her career as a writer of children’s TV shows for Nickelodeon. In September 2008 she released her first book: The Hunger Games. She was […]