Stanton is credited for setting off the first organized movement for woman’s rights and suffrage with her Declaration of Sentiments, which was presented in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848.

She is married to Henry Brewster Stanton and has seven children.

Prior to her work in women’s suffrage, Stanton was a passionate abolitionist like her husband.

Stanton personally attributed her intellectual and academic development and achievement to the support of a family neighbor, Reverend Simon Hosack, whose support was in contrast with the undervalued treatment she received from her father.

The Episcopal Church commemorates Stanton on July 20 in the calendar of saints.

Contrary to popular belief, Coco had rather humble beginnings. She was born in a peasant village and her father worked as a traveling salesman.

When her mother died of tuberculosis, Coco was entrusted in the care of the orphanage of a Roman Catholic monastery. It was there she had been able to develop her skills as a seamstress.

Coco’s first foray into fashion began with a hobby for designing hats. Her first shop, located in Paris, focused on selling trendy raincoats and jackets. It opened in 1913 but closed in the same year.

Her pioneering work has given her the distinction of being the only fashion figure to be included in Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.

Her real name was Margaretha Geertruida “Grietje” Zelle.

She was arrested, tried, and executed on the basis of intercepted messages regarding the activities of a German spy initially identified as H-21 and which authorities believed was Mata Hari’s code name. During her trial, she was charged for being responsible of the deaths of no less than fifty thousand soldiers.
She was only forty-one years old when she was executed by firing squad.

The French Minister of Defense reopened Mata Hari’s file in 1985 with the encouragement of biographer Russell Warren Howe. The file subsequently revealed that Mata Hari was innocent of all espionage charges made against her.

The Frisian Museum in her hometown features today a Mata Hari Room exhibit.

She served as First Lady of the United States during the term of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, from 1933 to 1945. She was also the first First Lady to assemble her own press conference.

Other offices she held included being Chair of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, President and Chair of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, and the country’s first delegate to the United Nations General Assembly.

For thirteen consecutive years, America voted her as the most admirable woman of the country. President Harry Truman also referred to her as the First Lady of the World in acknowledgment of her various accomplishments in the field of human rights, which continued on even after her husband’s death.

Joan of Arc is popularly referred to as the Maid of Orleans. Her feast day is celebrated on the 30th of May and she is generally considered the patron saints of martyrs, prisoners, militants, and female member organizations as the Women’s Army Corps and WAVES.

Joan’s visions allegedly consisted of messages that relayed the need to recover dominion of her homeland from the leadership of the British kingdom during the Hundred Years’ War.

She was only nineteen years old when an ecclesiastical court found her guilty of heresy and was sentenced to death by burning on the stakes.

On May 16, 1920, Pope Benedict XV canonized St. Joan of Arc at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome.

In 1950, the Theatre World publication awarded Kelly with a plaque as recognition for being one of the 12 most promising Broadway personalities for that year.

She received her first Academy Award and Golden Globe nomination for her work in Mogambo and received her Oscar for her titular role in The Country Girl.

A year later, the increasingly popular actress became involved in a racial controversy. When the establishment she was in denied entry to a Black American expatriate performer Josephine Baker, Kelly rushed to the other woman’s aid, whom she did not even know at that time.

When the actress married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco in April 1954, she gained the title of Princess Consort and was addresses as Her Serene Highness.

Although his fame is largely associated with his messenger work for the US government, Revere also worked as a silversmith, which later became a lucrative business as he was one of the first to take advantage of the war’s large scale need for metal manufacturing.

In 1773, Revere became a messenger for the Boston Committee of Public Safety. Majority of the messages he had been assigned to deliver reported about political unrest in Boston.

His famous “Midnight Ride” took place in April 1775 when Dr. Joseph Warren instructed Revere and William Dawes to ride to Lexington and alert Samuel Adams and John Hancock of the intentions of the British Army to arrest the two and possibly confiscate weapons stored in Concord as well.

His service, however, was celebrated posthumously through the immortal lines of the poem, Paul Revere’s Ride, written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Lennon was one of the vocals and songwriters of the Beatles, a band that enjoyed great fame in the sixties. He is considered one of the most successful songwriters in history, second only to his band mate Paul McCartney, with twenty-seven #1 US Hot 100 hits.

“Ain’t That a Shame” by Fats Domino was the first song Lennon learned to play.

Lennon had created the Beatles in 1957 with members from his earlier band, The Quarrymen.
Prior to his controversial marriage to Yoko Ono, Lennon was married to Cynthia Powell, who would later divorce him on the grounds of adultery.

Even after the Beatles disbanded in 1970, Lennon continued to enjoy a highly successful career as a solo artist. In 2008, Rolling Stones ranked Lennon as the fifth greatest all-time singer.

When he was 16, Disney dropped out of high school to enlist with the Army. He was rejected for not being of legal age and Disney joined the Red Cross instead.Mickey Mouse, arguably the most famous cartoon character that Disney created and originally voiced, was “born” after Disney lost ownership rights of another cartoon rodent, Oswald, to Universal Pictures.

He is the most awarded and nominated individual by the Academy Awards, having won twenty-six out of fifty-nine nominations. He had also won 7 Emmy Awards during his career.

Disney died of diabetes before his plans for the Walt Disney World Resort had come to fruition. His brother and co-founder Roy Disney came out of retirement for its grand opening in 1971.

Besides her years of learning at Amherst Academy, she also had a brief stay at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary.Dickinson was considered an “eccentric” by the locals because of her reclusive tendencies, such as being reluctant to leave her room, much less greet visitors, and her inclination to wear white. She was, however, able to maintain friendships by exchanging correspondence.

Her fame as a poet was posthumous and came about when her younger sister, Lavinia, had discovered her writings. Her first published collection had gone through extensive editing by personal acquaintances Mabel Loomis Todd and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. A commemorative stamp of the poet was issued in 1971 and the second of the “American Poet” series.