Studied with Karl Jaspers at Heidelberg University (1928). Fled the Nazis in 1933 and came to United States via France in 1941. She wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), The Human Condition (1958) and Eichmann in Jerusulem (1963) among other books. These works helped established her as a major voice in international intellectual circles.

Actually she is designated Cleopatra VII and she reigned from 51-30 B.C. She was the daughter of Ptolemy XIII. She was Julius Caesar's mistress (46-44 B.C.). She met and fell in love with Mark Antony (42 B.C.) She killed herself probably with poison, but maybe she used a snake to avoid being paraded in Rome by Octavian whom she could not seduce.

One of the more activist and controversial first ladies. Being married to Bill Clinton has provided her with plenty to do, including vigorously defending him against charges that he has sex with other women. In January 1998 she claimed her husband's character problems were being manufactured by a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Maybe, maybe not. She is perceived as arrogant but fans admire her intelligence. Mrs. Clinton must also be credited with being an excellent mother. Her college-aged daughter Chelsea is a pitcher for the Paradise Pisces. Chelsea is apparently a bright, sophisticated and well-adjusted young woman.

Also known as Martha Jane Canary, "Calamity Jane" was an American frontier woman who wandered the mining districts of the American west. Orphaned at 15, Calamity Jane settled in Deadwood, part of the Dakota Territory, and became a friend of Wild Bill Hickock. Ms. Canary could frequently be seen, dressed like a man, at bars telling stories of real and imagined adventures. In 1891 she married a cabdriver named Clinton Burke but he soon left her. She is buried in Deadwood, next to her companion, Wild Bill.

A daughter of actors, Laura Dern has distinguished herself as an intense and diverse cinematic talent. Our favorite Laura Dern role: the wild woman in David Lynch's Wild at Heart

One of the great American poets. She wrote nearly 2,000 but only seven of her poems were published during her lifetime. She spent almost her entire life living in her family home in Amherst, Massachsuetts

Jessie Numata was born in Japan in 1972. She moved to the United States when she was three. She started taking photographs with an "inherited" 35mm single lens reflex (SLR) Pentax camera when she was 14. After graduating high school she attended Johns Hopkins University in Maryland as a pre-med student. However, after her first semester she transferred to the fine arts division and began her formal study of photography. Her senior project (thesis), presented in 1991 was a series of black and white self-portrait photographs. Her college work was influenced by, among others, Robert Motherwell. After college and a brief stint as a graduate student at the Rochester Institute of Technology she moved back to Maryland. She is currently working as a freelance photographer. Her recent work has been in the area of photographic collage.

Non-conformist and controversial dancer who is credited as one of the founders of modern dance. She performed all over the world and set up dance schools in France, Germany and Russia. An ardent individualist she had two children and two husbands and many many lovers.

Despite talents as a dancer, painter and writer, Zelda spent much of her life battling mental illness. In 1920 after a two-year courtship she married the writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Together they were the sterotypical "Jazz Age" couple. Ten years after her marriage she had her first mental breakdown. She wrote her first novel Save Me the Waltz while institutionalized. Much of her life consisted of the cycle of going in and coming out of asylums. She died tragically in a fire.

Her grandfather was William Randolph Hearst, founder of the Hearst media empire. In the 1970s she was kidnapped by a political group called the Symbionese Liberation Army. After her "re-capture" by the police she was tried and convicted of robbing a bank while a captive of the SLA. The trial, held in San Francisco, attracted a tremendous amount of attention, in part because she was the daughter of a famous American family and in part because her lawyer was the sensational F. Lee Bailey.

A "daughter of the Pre-Raphaelites" Isabel Violet Hunt began keeping a jouranl at the age of fourteen. A rebel and non-conformist she wrote an autobiographical novel entitled Their Lives. Her 1932 novel called The Wife of Rossetti is about men who abandoned the women they love. A first-rate gossip, Hunt cannot always be trusted to tell things exactly the way they happened.

When Fear of Flying was published, the young Erica Jong was catapulted to fame. A sexy diatribe on a woman's right to erotic liberation, the book has attained a classical standing in the field of feminist literature. She has also written an interesting series of essay about Henry Miller called The Devil At Large, which attempts to make Henry more acceptable to feminist thinkers who typically revile him.

When she met the English writer D.H. Lawrence she was married to a college linguistics professor and the mother of two young children. Nevertheless, her intense and passionate feelings for the writer were strong enough for her to abandon her family and live and eventually marry Lawrence. As his principle muse her influence on Lawrence work was profound.

Sharon Lopatka's story makes us pause and consider just how reflective of reality the nexus of computers glued by voltage and called the 'internet' really is. She died at the hands of someone she met on the internet. Immediately after the story broke, calls for more rigorous regulation of the internet were met with counter-calls suggesting this case was an anomaly, not typical of the online community. Nevertheless, Lopatka is representative of the net's "fellaheen," those individuals on the edges of the edge where the real and the fantastical blur. Spengler says the "fellaheen" arise as the culture decays in its downward plunge into oblivion. Whatever. Lopatka was a sexual masochist who, apparently, actively used E-mail, chat groups, and newsgroups to find someone who would torture her to death. So there is a question. Was this a murder, an accidental death, or an assisted suicide?

A successful and mildly controversial entertainer. Her popularity had in part been fueled by her marriage to Kurt Cobain. Initially a rock and roll singer, she is also becoming a talented movie actress. Controversy seems to follow her around. For example there is a theory that suggests she was involved in Cobain's death, which has been officially ruled a suicide.

A talented artist and illustrator, Ms. Havard studied at the Corcoran Art Institute in Washington, D.C. Her work and aesthetic is so apparently and manifestly traditional it is avant-garde.

Also known as Margaretha Geertruida Zelle Macleod, she was a successful dancer who had a fetish for military officers. In 1917 the French accused her of spying for Germany. She was tried by a French military court and convicted. She was executed by a firing squad of French soldiers.

On June 7, 1861 the drama Mazeppa opened to rave reviews in Albany, New York. The play, based on a poem written by Byron in 1819 tells of the young nobleman Mazeppa who is caught with the wife of a Polish count. Mazeppa is lashed to a horse and banished from town. Cast in the leading role was a free-spirited, bohemian woman, Adah Menken. And this was not Adah's first role in drag. Her career got started in her hometown New Orleans where she danced and performed in men's clothing frequently.

Marilyn Monroe has become a metaphor for the sensitive and insecure woman raped by a business more devoted to image than substance. After a childhood in orphanages and foster homes, Marilyn Monroe took a job as a photographer's model. At 22 she appeared naked in a calendar catching the eyes of Hollywood producers who promptly marketed her as a blonde sex queen. Sold as beautiful but dumb, Hollywood chewed her up much like they devoured Frances Farmer, another attractive starlet. For nine months in 1954 she was married to the great New York Yankee baseball player, Joe Dimaggio. She later married the playwright Arthur Miller. She died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping pills, on August 5, 1962 at the age of 36.

By the time Yoko Ono met John Lennon in 1966, she was already an internationally known avant-garde artist. In fact, she met Lennon at her own one-woman art show at the Indica Gallery in London. She was an early innovator in the "performance art" genre and many commentators have recognized her unique contributions to music.

The wife of the philosopher Socrates has frequently been portrayed as a bit of a nag or shrew. And maybe if your husband was always out and about stirring things up with the younger generation, you might also find reason to complain. Nevertheless, we have every reason to suspect that he loved her and that she cared for him.