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Famous women in history and the conflict they managed or took part in:

Amy Biehl : apartheid in South Africa
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=a_biehl
Dr Caldicott : nuclear war
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=h_caldicott
Aung San Suu Kyi :Myanmar and non violent fight for peace
http://nobelprize.org/peace/articles/heroines/#anchor81733
Ann Frank : WW2
http://library.thinkquest.org/6343/Anne_Frank.html?tqskip1=1
Nancy Harkness Love : pilot (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
http://www.atalink.org/hallfame/harkness.html
Rosa parks : Civil rights
http://library.thinkquest.org/6343/RosaParks.html?tqskip1=1
Harriet Tubman : Underground Railroad
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=harrietTubman
Benazir Bhutto : Pakistan
http://www.wic.org/bio/bbhutto.htm
Golda Meir : Israel
http://www.wic.org/bio/gmeir.htm
Unarmed and under fire: An oral history of female Vietnam vets
http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/1999/11/11/women/index.html
Mother Theresa and Indira Gandhi : India
http://www.myhero.com/myhero/hero.asp?hero=M_Teresa
http://departments.kings.edu/womens_history/igandhi.html
Brenda Berkman : a woman 911 firefighter
<>http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/769
Eva Peron : Argentina
http://womenshistory.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.evaperon.itgo.com%2Feva01.html
Women rulers (from Cleopatra to Margaret Thatcher)
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/rulers.html

Other links to famous women's biographies
http://myhero.com/myhero/go/directory/index.asp (see angels and peace makers)
http://nobelprize.org/peace/articles/heroines/ (9 Nobel peace prize winners)
http://library.thinkquest.org/6343/?tqskip1=1 (few bios, written by children. See Ann Frank)
Women International Center http://www.wic.org/bio/idex_bio.htm (If you know who you are looking for)
Women history http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbio_list.htm
(US) National Women Hall of fame http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewAll
A list of links to sites with biographies of famous women
http://www.teacheroz.com/women.htm

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