Her passion for the desert peoples led her to learn their languages and become more familiar with the land than anyone else. For more information about her, visit the Gertrude Bell Project at the University of Newcastle. Helen Keller United States. When just a baby, scarlet fever left Keller blind and deaf. She graduated from Radcliffe College cum laude in 1904, and wrote several books.
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.
A First Lady with class and influence. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. This trailblazing dancer and choreographer stunned critics with her modern style, that was far removed from the graceful ballet people seemed to expect of women. Some of her pieces were angry or wrenchingly sad, raw instead of polished. Amelia Earhart United States, 1897-1937 One of the more fascinating and tragic things about Earhart is that no one knows what happened to her.