Important Women in History

Agnes George de Mille
Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontai
Alexandra Romanov
Alexandrine Pieternella Francoise Tinne
Amelia Earhart
Anne Frank
Anne Sullivan Macy
Aphra Behn
Ariel Hollinshead
Aspasia of Miletus
Barbara McClintock
Baroness Murasaki Shikibu
Beatrix Jones Farrand
Bertha von Suttner
Betty Naomi Friedan
Billie Jean King
Bonnie Kathleen Blair
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Catherine de Medici
Catherine the Great
Chien-shiung Wu
Christine de Pizan
Clara Barton
Cleopatra
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Dorothy Mary Crowfoot Hodgkin
Edith Flanigen
Eleanor of Aquitane
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Gurney Fry
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Ella Baker
Emily Dickinson
Emma Tenayuca
Emmeline Pankhurst
Eva Peron
Florence Bascom
Florence Nightingale
Georgia O'Keeffe
Gloria Steinem
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Russell Strong
Harriet Tubman
Helen Keller
Indira Gandhi
Jane Addams
Jane Austen
Jeannette Rankin
Juana Ines de la Cruz
Judith E. Heumann
Juliette Gordon Low
Lise Meitner
Louise Arner Boyd
Lucy Stone
Margaret Fuller
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Thatcher
Maria Montessori
Marian Wright Edelman
Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo
Marie Antoinette
Marie Curie
Mary Phelps Jacob
Mary Wollstonecraft
Maya Lin
Mother Theresa
Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor
Pearl S. Buck
Phyllis Wheatley
Pocahontas
Queen Anne
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Isabella
Queen Victoria
Rachel Carson
Rigoberta Menchu Tum
Rosa Bonheur
Rosa Parks
Rosalind Elsie Franklin
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rose Schneiderman
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Saint Joan of Arc
Sakajawea
Sally Ride
Sappho
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Shirley Temple Black
Simone de Beauvoir
Sirimavo Ratwatte Dias Bandaranaike
Sojourner Truth
St. Catherine
Susan B. Anthony
Susette La Flesche Tibbles
Tz'u Hsi
Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva Tereshkova
Vijaya Lakshimi Pandit
Wilma Mankiller
Yoshiko Uchida

Famous Quotes by Women Celebrities

1."Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow, it's all the same .... day."
-- Janis Joplin

2."Hope is a thing with feathers
That perches in the soul;
And sings the tune without words
And never stops at all."
-- Emily Dickinson

3."I am not afraid…I was born to do this."
-- Joan of Arc

4."I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
-- Helen Keller

5."If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
-- Mother Teresa

6."Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back."
-- Princess Diana

7."Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds.Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, comrades and friends - but only one mother in the whole world.
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin

8."Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood."
-- Marie Curie

Kids Jokes

1.What is the difference between an elephant and a flea?
An elephant can have fleas but a flea can't have elephants !

2.Why did the elephant paint his toenails red ?
So he could hide in the cherry tree !

3.How do you know when there is an elephant under your bed ?
When your nose touches the ceiling !

4.What do you call an elephant that flies ?
A jumbo jet !

5.What do you get if you cross an elephant and a kangaroo ?
Big holes all over Australia !

6.How does an elephant get down from a tree ?
He sits on a leaf and waits till autumn !

7.Why did the elephant paint himself with different colours?
Because he wanted to hide in the colouring box !

8.Why were the elephants thrown out of the swimming pool ?
Because they couldn't hold their trunks up !


9.What time is it when an elephant sits on the fence ?
Time to fix the fence !


10.Why does an elephant wear sneakers ?
So that he can sneak up on mice !



http://www.kidsjokes.co.uk/jokes/animal/animal2.html

1000 Calorie Diet Sample Menu

Breakfast

• Banana sandwich made with 2 small slices of wholemeal bread and a small banana.

• 200ml glass of orange juice

Morning Snack

• 100g pot of low fat fruit yoghurt

Lunch

• 1 wholemeal roll (45g) filled with 70g tuna (canned in brine) and 10g reduced calorie mayonnaise

• Mixed salad of 50g lettuce, 50g red or yellow sweet peppers, 10g spring onions.

Afternoon Snack

• 28g bag of lower fat crisps (eg. Walkers Lites)

Dinner

• 70g Roast Chicken breast (without skin)

• 80g Potatoes, mashed with 30ml semi-skimmed milk

• 60g Broccoli, steamed or boiled

• 50g Carrots, boiled

• 100ml Gravy (made from granules)

Evening


• 1 serving of low calorie Hot Chocolate Drink made with powder and water (eg. Cadbury's Highlights)

Women will lose 2-4 lbs in a week, men 3-5 lbs in a week, depending on start weight and activity level. It is not recommended that calories be so restricted for more than one week - for most people this level of calories is too low to obtain enough nutrition, and may have the effect of slowing metabolism.

Refer : weightlossresources.co.uk

Migraine Headache

Nearly everyone gets headaches. But while some are tension headaches or headaches caused by a cold. Or flue, migraine headaches tend to rather severe. Migraine headaches tend to be severe and recurrent and are often accompanied by nausea. What begins as a pain on one side of the head may spread to both sides and can be a severe impediment in your daily routine. Some persons get warning signs before a migraine attack. These are called 'aura' - throbbing pulsating pain or flashes of bright lights or blind spots. It is thought that migraine headaches are caused by a change in the blood flow pattern to the brain. Trigerred by stress or other factors, arteries supplying blood to the brain may constrict. Serotonin, a chemical may also have a role to play since it is released from nerve fibers that coil around the blood vessels. To tackle this, certain arteries within the brain may dilate to accomodate better oxygen supply. This dilation may result in migraine headaches. While anyone can get migraine headaches, they are more common in women.

Migraine Headache Symptom

Migraine headache symptoms may vary in type and intensity from person to person. Migraines can be inherited and thus run in families. Some typical symptoms noticed in most migraine headache sufferers are:

• Throbbing pain on one or both sides of the head
• Nausea and vomitting
• Stiff neck
• Sensitivity to light and sound
• Visual hallucinations such as zigzag lines and flashing lights
• Tiredness, irritability and confusion
• Mood swings
• Sensitivity to cold
• Diarrhea and increased urination

History - Women's Education in India:

Even though in the Vedic period women consumed right of entry to education in India they had bit by bit lost this right. On the other hand in the British old-fashioned in attendance is situated revitalization of concentration in women's instruction in India.

All through this period a number of socio religious arrangements led by distinguished general public like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Is war Chandra Vidyasagar emphasized on women's education in India.

Mahatma Jyotiba Phule, Periyar and Baba Saheb Ambedkar were influential of the junior castes in India who took a number of inventiveness to make education presented to the women of India. Nonetheless women's instruction got an impetus before the nation state got conventionality in 1947 and the supervision has taken a number of measures to provide education to all Indian women.

As a result women's literacy rate has fully-fledged over the three spans and the progression of female reading ability has in state of affairs been to be set up higher than that of male reading ability rate.

Despite the fact in 1971 only 22% of Indian women were knowledgeable, by the finale of 2001 54.16% female were literate. The progression of female reading ability rate is 14.87% as likened to 11.72 % of that of male knowledge rate.

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