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I was born in Hollywood, California 3/12/1946. I am an Academy and Tony Award-winning actress known for my powerful voice and stage presence and for being

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• I was born in Hollywood, California 3/12/1946. I am an Academy and Tony Award-winning actress known for my powerful voice and stage presence and for being the daughter of director Vincente Minnelli and Judy Garland.

• When I was 21, I won a national competition to design and build the now famous Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. My most recent monument was erected in Alabama in honor of the Civil Rights Movement.

• I am a chef who came to fame when I opened my California restaurant Chez Panisse in 1971. My latest cookbook was inspired by my 9-year-old daughter. It's called Fanny at Chez Panisse (1992) and is written in the voice of a young girl.

• I was born in Argentina (1891-1979) was the founder and publisher of Sur, a literary magazine. I was known in my country as the Queen of Letters.

• I was an American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass.; daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. I was born in 1820 and died in 1906.

I am an American humanitarian, organizer of the American Red Cross, b. North Oxford (now Oxford), Mass. I taught school (1839–54) and clerked in the U.S. Patent Office before the outbreak of the Civil War.

• I am an American abolitionist, b. Dorchester co., Md. Born into slavery, I escaped to Philadelphia in 1849, and subsequently became one of the most successful “conductors” on the Underground Railroad.

• I was an American abolitionist, a freed slave, originally called Isabella, b. Ulster co., N.Y. Convinced that she heard heavenly voices.

• My parents were slaves when I was born and died from yellow fever when I was 14. By 1891 I was an outspoken, young free woman. That year I helped found the newspaper Memphis Free Speech.