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1. Bill Clinton -- Foreign Service
   Clinton's opponents raised various "character" issues during the campaign, including his avoidance of military service during the Vietnam War, and his glib response to a question about past marijuana use. Allegations of womanizing and shady business deals ... were raised. While none of these alleged flaws led to Clinton's defeat, they did fuel unusually vehement opposition to Clinton among many conservatives from the very beginning of his presidency.
2. Golda Meir -- Foreign Minister
   After being elected in 1949 to the Knesset as a Mapai party member, Golda Meir was appointed minister of labor. She began large scale housing and road building programs, and supported a policy of unrestricted immigration.
3. Prostitution -- Woman
   On the October 24 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Neal Boortz suggested that a victim of Hurricane Katrina currently housed in an Atlanta hotel consider prostitution. "If that's the only way she can take care of herself," Boortz posited, "it sure beats the hell out of sucking off the taxpayers." The woman was featured in an October 23 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article; Boortz repeated her first name on the air.
4. Margaret Chase Smith -- Woman
   Margaret Chase Smith was not the first woman to run for the presidency. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull was the candidate of the small “Equal Rights” Party, and in 1884, Belva Lockwood was that same party’s candidate for the White House. That was many years before women could even vote and, except for the novelty of it all, these two women aroused very little enthusiasm among the voters. But Margaret Chase Smith was not running for the “novelty” of it. She was after the nomination of one of the two major political parties in the United States.
5. Amelia Earhart -- Woman
   Amelia Earhart was a woman who knew how to get the job done. She had learned how to work Politics, Society and the Press in her favor. Along the way she had made several enemies and people wanting to use her fame to reach their own goals. FDR wanted her DEAD, a dead American hero might help him start a war that he wanted at any cost. He with the help of Joe Stalin and Joe Kennedy could rule the world!
6. Wonder Woman -- Star Comics
   Wonder Woman aka Princess Diana is an Amazon from greek mythology and one of the most famous superheroines. She was created by William Moulton Marston for DC comics., making her first appearance in All Star Comics #8 in 1941. The creation was partly inspired by Moulton's wife Elizabeth Holloway Marston as well as mutual lover Olive Byrne, both strong women. (BasedonWikipedia.More...)
7. Claude Lelouch -- Man and a Woman
   Following the international success of his 1966 romantic drama A Man and a Woman, French director Claude Lelouch reteamed with Jean-Louis Trintignant for this slick and witty crime film. Trintignant plays Simon, an ex-con who teams up with an old cohort (Charles Gerard) and his new wife (Christine Lelouch) to hatch a kidnapping scheme that will earn them a million dollars in cash. France, 1970, 120 mins.
8. Wide Sargasso Sea
   Wide Sargasso Sea, published in 1966 toward the end of Jean Rhys's writing career, was the most successful of Rhys's literary works. The novel was well received when it was first published and has never been out of print. It ... continues to draw the interest of academics and literary critics today. The popularity of Wide Sargasso Sea might be based on several factors. The general reader might enjoy this novel for the captivating story of a lonely young woman who is driven to near madness by her need to be loved. Literary theorists, on the other hand, find Rhys's novel rich in the portrayal of the damaging effects of colonization on a conquered people and the debilitating consequences of sexual exploitation of women.
9. Sandi Toksvig -- Girton College
   Toksvig began her comedy career at Cambridge where she wrote and performed in the first all-woman show at the Cambridge Footlights. She was ... a member of Cambridge University Light Entertainment Society while a student at Girton College, Cambridge, and moved via children's television onto the comedy circuit. She performed at the first night of The Comedy Store in London and was once part of The Comedy Store Players, an improvisational comedy team.
10. Greek Gods -- Athens Acropolis
    The Greeks built temples to be the gods and goddesses homes. The temples showed how wealthy and powerful the city was. Rich cities, like Athens, built temples of the best stone, and decorated them with paintings, statues and carvings.

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