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1. Typhoid -- Typhoid Mary
   Typhoid is a very nasty disease. Today, it still attacks some 17 million people in poor countries each year, and kills about 600,000 of them. Back before antibiotics such as chloramphenicol, typhoid was very much feared. This is why in New York in the early 1900s, Mary Mallon was vilified and demonised as "Typhoid Mary". It was claimed that she deliberately and malevolently infected everyone she came near, with typhoid. Today, the term "Typhoid Mary" refers to someone who carries death, doom and destruction with them.
2. Bacteria -- Diseases
   Bacteria are of major importance in the food industry. On the one hand, they cause food spoilage and food-borne diseases, and so must be controlled. On the other hand, they improve food flavor and nutrition.
3. The Kingpin -- Daredevil
   The Kingpin of Crime is the arch nemesis of Daredevil, and a recurring nemesis for Spider-Man, both fictional comic book superheroes owned by Marvel Comics. He has faced many Marvel characters both good and evil, notably the Punisher, the Avengers, Captain America, Doctor Strange, and others. He has employed Echo, Bullseye, Elektra, and Typhoid Mary as assassins.
4. Salmonella
   Salmonella organisms are gram-negative bacilli in the family Enterobacteriaceae. Differences in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and flagellar structure generate the antigenic variation that is reflected in the more than 2,000 known serotypes. The principal reservoirs for nontyphoidal Salmonella organisms are poultry, livestock, reptiles, and pets. The mode of transmission is ingestion of foods of animal origin, including poultry, red meats, unpasteurized milk, and eggs that have been contaminated by infected animals or an infected human. Contact with infected reptiles, such as iguanas, pet turtles, and tortoises, and ingestion of contaminated water are other modes of transmission.
5. Josephine Baker -- New York
   Born in St. Louis, Josephine Baker was a star in Paris for most of her adult life. She left her home in Missouri and began performing in her early teens. She appeared in the chorus lines of all-black revues on New York vaudeville stages, then travelled to Paris in 1925 as part of La Revue Negre. Her lithe body and frank sensuality, combined with her jovial clowning on stage, caused a sensation. She was so successful in Paris that she stayed and opened her own nightclub there, Chez Josephine. Baker was famous for her exotic outfits, her trademarks being a leopard on a leash, a skirt made of feathers, and a dance in which she wore a string of bananas and not much else.
6. 1907
   The Panic of 1907, ... known as the 1907 Bankers' Panic, was a financial crisis in the United States. The stock market fell nearly 50% from its peak in 1906, the economy was in recession, and there were numerous runs on banks and trust companies. Its primary cause was a retraction of loans by some banks that began in New York and soon spread across the nation, leading to the closings of banks and businesses. The severity of the downturn was such that it eventually pressured the United States Congress to enact the Federal Reserve Act creating the Federal Reserve System in 1913. The 1907 panic was the fourth panic in 34 years.
7. Musselburgh Links -- Golf
   Musselburgh Links, on the edge of the town, is a delightful nine hole course. The Open Golf Championship was held here first in 1874 and the course was the venue for a further five. Musselburgh ... claims the honour of holding the worldÕs first golf competition for women in 1811.
8. Benjamin Harrison -- White House
   In 1777, the same year Harrison withdrew from Congress, he entered the lower house of the Virginia legislature, where he presided as speaker in the years 1778-81. His three terms as Governor (1781-84) reflected the ascendancy in Virginia of the conservatives, who included in addition to Harrison and Braxton such former extremists as Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee. Succeeded by Henry, Harrison rejoined the legislature (1784-91), holding the speakership part of the time. In 1788 at the Virginia ratifying convention he objected to the Federal Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights. Once ratification had occurred... he supported the new Government. Three years later, Harrison died in his mid-sixties at Berkeley and was buried there in the family cemetery.
9. Herbert Hoover -- West Branch
   Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10, 1874 to Jesse and Hulda Hoover. His father worked as a blacksmith and farm-implement dealer and his mother was a very pious woman who eventually adopted Quakerism. Hoover's idyllic childhood was shattered at the age of six when both of his parents died within a three month period. The rest of his youth was spent with his maternal uncle and aunt, John and Laura Minthorn, who took him into their home in Newberg, Oregon.
10. Maria Callas -- New York
    --> Maria Callas was born in New York on 1923-12-04 (or 12-02) and died in Paris on 1977-09-16. Here is a brief biography from Encarta '95. Here is alonger but more interesting biography by Coen Steegeling.

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