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Charles Babbage ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Millicent Garrett Fawcett ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Sirimavo Bandaranaike ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Kate Greenaway ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Benazir Bhutto ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	James Hargreaves ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Thomas à Beckett ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Dorothy Hodgkin ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Berengaria ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Grace Hopper ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Aneurin Bevan ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Elizabeth Blackwell ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
William Blake ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	John Smeaton ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Vida Goldstein ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Wilma Mankiller ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Boudicca ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Sir Joseph Swann ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Frederick Winslow Taylor ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Sir Thomas More ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
John Cabot ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Alan Turing ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Johann Gutenberg ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	John Flynn ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
James Cook ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Sir Walter Raleigh ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Dennis Gabor ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Evangelista Torricelli ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Sir Francis Drake ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Derek Walcott ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer
Charles Drew ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer	Christina Rossetti ruler saint artist engineer explorer inventor pioneer

 

 Emmeline Pankhurst True or false

The following passage has been taken from the Encarta 96. It is about a famous woman who fought for human rights. Five of the facts in the passage are wrong. Read the entry in Encarta and underline the five wrong facts. Write in the correct fact.

"Pankhurst, Emmeline (1868-1928), British suffrage leader, who led the movement to win the vote for women in Great Britain.

Born Emmeline Goulden in Melchester, she studied (1873-1877) at the École Normale in Paris. In 1879 she married Richard Marsden Pankhurst, a barrister, who worked with her to promote equality for women.

In 1889 she was one of the founders of the Women's Franchise League, which five years later succeeded in getting Parliament to give women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

In 1903 together with her daughter Christine she founded the Women's Social and Political Union (RSPCU) in Manchester. The group held public meetings, and led protest marches to the House of Commons. She was arrested and sent to prison many times between 1908 and 1913. In jail she went on hunger strike as a protest, and was forcibly fed.

Emmeline Pankhurst died in London on June 14, 1928, a few weeks after British women were granted full voting rights. "

May 1891 Anachronisms

Read the following passage on a street scene in London in 1891. Some parts of the passage are anachronistic. Use Encarta to find and underline them. Write your reasons for in the margin.

The year is 1891, a Saturday in May. We are in a London street watching what is happening. The horse-drawn cabs are busy rushing past and the streets are full diesel-engined buses. A newspaper seller is shouting that today Charles Stewart Parnell has died, and the advertisements on the street-side all announce trips to see the opening of the Eiffel Tower in Paris.A man walks along the street trying to read his book (it looks like 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles' by Thomas Hardy) and as a result walks into an electric street light. He should have been able to see where he was going - the new tungsten filaments are much brighter than the old carbon ones.

A family comes past. One of the children stops to look at the books for sale in the shop window. 'I say, pater, they've got 'The Invisible Man' by H G Wells. Morris Minor says its an absolutely ripping yarn'. The others pull him away; 'Hurry! we must not be late or we will miss Henry Irving and Ellen Terry at the Lyceum!'

A group of rugby league supporters walk by, their scarves tucked into their jackets. They look cheerful, so their team probably won. A man walks up the street banging the railings with his brand-new bakelite walking-stick.