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~ Heroic Women in History ~

Bates, Daisy - worked with Aboriginal people	Boadicea - Ancient British Queen
Cavell, Edith - British nurse	Earhart, Amelia - American Aviator
Joan of Arc - French Military Leader	Johnson, Amy - British Aviator
Keller, Helen - American Writer & Social Worker	Mother Teresa - Indian Nun
Nightingale, Florence - British Health Reformer	Pocahontas - Native American Heroine
Stanhope, Lady Hester - British Traveller	Suu Kyi, Aung San - Burmese Political Leader
Wake, Nancy - WWII Resistance

SUBJECT HEADINGS	BROWSE THE SHELVES
Joan of Arc Kings, Queens & Rulers (for Boadicea) Nurses and Nursing - History (for Cavell & Nightingale) Florence Nightingale Air Pilots - Biography (for Earhart & Johnson) Helen Keller Nuns (for Mother Teresa) Biography - Women (for Mother Teresa) Burma (for Suu Kyi) Nancy Wake Daisy Bates North American Indians - History (for Pocahontas)	362.41092 persons with impaired vision (HK) 944.026092 European history 1380-1461 (JoA) 610.73092 Nurses & Nursing - History (EC & FN) 940.5485 WWII Intelligence (NW) 362.70899 racial, ethnic & national groups (DB) 972.01 Early American Hist - 1519 (P) 305.40922 Women in History (B) 920 Biographies 271.9002 Nuns (MT) 954.05 History of India 1971 - (MT) 959.01 History of Burma (ASSK) 629.13 Air Pilots - biography (AJ & AE)
REFERENCE COLLECTION	VIDEOS
R920.72 PEN Biographical Dictionary of Women R920.2 WHO Who's who in the 20th Century R920.2 WHO Who did what ? R909.82 CHR Chronical of the 20th Century R911 MCE The Penguin Atlas of Medieval History R920.02 DIC A dictionary of 20th C World Biography R920.02 HUT The Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of World Biography R920.02 JON Dictionary of World Biography R920.02 BOU Great lives - over 1000 men & women who have shaped history R920.094 MON Monash Biographical Dictionary of 20th C Australia R994.0092 ATO The A_Z Who's who in Austrlaia's history R944.009 AUS Australian Dictionary of Biography R944.092 SER Dictionary of Australian Biography	VC FR French VC E English VC H History
NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES	INTRANET RESOURCES
Online newspapers & magazines
VERTICAL FILES	OTHER
	PIC 944.026092 Joan of Arc pictures and posters
INTERNET SITES
Joan of Arc Joan of Arc Archive http://members.aol.com/hywwebsite/private/joanofarc.html Illuminating Lives: Joan of Arc www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Joan.html Women's History Month - Biography - Joan of Arc www.galegroup.com/free_resources/whm/bio/joan_of_arc.htm Joan of Arc - Top Biography top-biography.com/9092-Joan%20of%20Arc/ Boadicea Queen Boudicca And The Events Leading To The Iceni Rebellion members.tripod.com/~ancient_history/boad.html Boadicea: Queen of the Iceni members.netnormal.com/library/boadicea.htm Boudica (Boadicea) Warrior Queen of the Iceni www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/Boudica.htm Edith Cavell Welcome to the Edith Cavell web pages www.edithcavell.org.uk/ Tribute To Edith Cavell www.fallenmartyrs.com/england.htm Nurse Edith Cavell womenshistory.about.com/library/prm/bledithcavell1.htm Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale Museum Web Site www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/ Florence Nightingale womenshistory.about.com/cs/nightingale/ Florence Nightingle - Top Biogrpahy www.top-biography.com/9062-Florence%20Nightingale/ Lady Hester Stanhope STANHOPE, LADY HESTER LUCY 18.1911encyclopedia.org/S/ST/STANHOPE_LADY_HESTER_LUCY.htm Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart - biography ellensplace.net/eae_intr.html Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/ Official Amelia Earhart Website www.ameliaearhart.com/ Amy Johnson Amy Johnson: Pioneer Airwoman www.ninety-nines.org/johnson.html Amy Johnson www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/collections/exhiblets/johnson/start.asp Amy Johnson www.callnetuk.com/home/orwin/people/dead/People/Johnson.html Helen Keller TIME 100: Heroes & Icons - Helen Keller \| page 1 www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/keller01.html RNIB Factsheet - The life of Helen Keller www.rnib.org.uk/wesupply/fctsheet/keller.htm Helen Keller www.afb.org/htm_asp/CollectionID=1/info_documents.htm Helen Keller-Top Biography www.top-biography.com/0043-Helen%20Keller/ Mother Teresa Mother Teresa: the official website www.tisv.be/mt/indmt.htm CNN - Mother Teresa: Angel of Mercy www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/mother.teresa/ TIME 100: Heroes & Icons - Mother Teresa \| page 1 www.time.com/time/time100/heroes/profile/teresa01.html Aung San Suu Kyi Burma Peace Campaign www.burmapeacecampaign.org/ Who2 Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi www.who2.com/aungsansuukyi.html CNN.com - Profile: Aung San Suu Kyi - April 24, 2002 europe.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/23/suukyi.profile/ Nancy Wake The New Zealand Edge : Heroes : Warriors : Nancy Wake www.nzedge.com/heroes/wake.html Nancy Wake www.64-baker-street.org/html/nancy_wake.html NANCY WAKE www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/wake.htm Daisy Bates Daisy Bates members.ozemail.com.au/~fliranre/bates.htm [PDF] Daisy Bates teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLpdf/champions/DaisyBates.pdf Yahooligans! – Daisy Bates www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/Countries/Australia/History/Biographies/Bates__Daisy/ Pocohontas Pocahontas www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/famous/pocahontas.htm Life and Legend of Pocahontas www.nps.gov/colo/Jthanout/Pocahnts.html

Last updated 17 June, 2008