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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937), is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and was the first woman to fly in space,aboard Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963.

Tereshkova was born in a small village in the Yaroslavl Oblast in western Russia. Her 

father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. She began school in1945 at the age of eight, but left school in 1953 and continued her education bycorrespondence courses. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, andtrained in parachuting at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May1959. It was her expertise in parachute jumping that led to her selection as a cosmonaut.Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist when shewas recruited into the cosmonaut program. In 1961 she became secretary of the localKomsomol (Young Communist League) and later joined the Communist Party of the SovietUnion.

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Nefertiti (pronounced at the time something like *nafrati taː[1]) (c. 1370 BC - c. 1330 BC)

was the Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten. She was the mother-in-lawand may have been stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Nefertiti may have also ruledas pharaoh under the name Neferneferuaten for a short time after her husband's death and before the accession of Tutankhamun, although this identification is doubted by the latest

research.[needs proving ] Her name in English means "the beautiful (or perfect) woman hascome". Nefertiti was one of the most powerful queens in Ancient Egypt.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (August 26, 1910 – September 5, 1997), born Agnes Gonxha

Bojaxhiu, was an Albanian[2]  [3]  Roman Catholic nun with Indian citizenship[4] who foundedthe Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950. For over 45 years she

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ministered to the poor, sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first throughout India and then in other countries.

By the 1970s she had become internationally famed as a humanitarian and advocate for the poor and helpless, due in part to a documentary, and book, Something Beautiful for God by

Malcolm Muggeridge. She won the  Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India's highest civilianhonor, the Bharat Ratna, in 1980 for her humanitarian work. Mother Teresa's Missionariesof Charity continued to expand, and at the time of her death it was operating 610 missionsin 123 countries, including hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy andtuberculosis, soup kitchens, children's and family counseling programs, orphanages, andschools.

She has been praised by many individuals, governments and organizations; however, shehas also faced a diverse range of criticism. These include objections by various individuals,including Christopher Hitchens, Michael Parenti, Aroup Chatterjee, Vishva HinduParishad, against the proselytizing focus of her work; this included baptisms of the dying, a

strong pro-life stance on abortion and a belief in the spiritual goodness of poverty. Severalmedical journals also criticised the standard of medical care in her hospices, and concernswere raised about the opaque nature in which donated money was spent.

Following her death she was  beatified by Pope John Paul II and given the title Blessed

Teresa of Calcutta.[5][6]

On September 10, 1946, Teresa experienced what she later described as "the call within thecall" while traveling to the Loreto convent in Darjeeling from Calcutta for her annualretreat. "I was to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them. It was anorder. To fail would have been to break the faith."[19] She began her missionary work withthe poor in 1948, replacing her traditional Loreto habit with a simple white cotton sari

decorated with a blue border, adopted Indian citizenship, and ventured out into the slums. [20]

[21] Initially she started a school in Motijhil; soon she started tending to the needs of thedestitute and starving.[22] Her efforts quickly caught the attention of Indian officials,including the Prime Minister, who expressed his appreciation.[23]

Teresa wrote in her diary that her first year was fraught with difficulties. She had noincome and had to resort to begging for food and supplies. Teresa experienced doubt,loneliness and the temptation to return to the comfort of convent life during these earlymonths.

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Cleopatra. Queen of Egypt. Born in 69 B. C. Celebrated for her beauty. Cleopatra was thedaughter of Ptolemy Auletes, by whose will she was left joint sovereign with her brother Ptolemy (51 B.C.). Expelled by the latter, she sought the assistance of Julius Caesar, who

restored her to the throne in conjunction with a younger brother. She afterwards followedCaesar to Rome, and in 41 B.C. captivated Mark Antony, who rejected Octavia for her sake. A quarrel with Octavius ensued; the fleet of Antony and Cleopatra was defeated atActium, and they fled together to Egypt, where both committed suicide in 30 B.C.

Cleopatra was a name of several ancient Egyptian women. All the queens of the Ptolemydynasty were named Cleopatra.

• Cleopatra VII, the most famous Cleopatra of Egypt who had a child with JuliusCaesar 

Diana, Princess of Wales, (Diana Frances;[N 1] née Spencer ;1 July 1961 – 31 August 1997)was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Henry (Harry), are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.

A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Dianaremained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around theworld up to and during her marriage, and after her subsequent divorce. Her sudden death ina car crash was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning.Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy have been mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long awaited Coroner's Inquest concluded inApril 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the driver and the following paparazzi.[1]

Diana was the youngest daughter of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later the 8th EarlSpencer , and his first wife, Frances, Viscountess Althorp (formerly the Honourable FrancesBurke Roche, and later Frances Shand Kydd). She was born at Park House, Sandringham in Norfolk , England on 1 July 1961 at 6.45 in the evening[citation needed ], and was baptised at St.Mary Magdalene Church by the Rt. Rev. Percy Herbert (rector of the church and former Bishop of Norwich and Blackburn); her godparents included John Floyd (the chairman of Christie's). She was the third child to the couple, her four siblings being The Lady SarahSpencer (born 1955), The Lady Jane Spencer (born 1957), The Honourable John Spencer (died 12 January 1960), and The Honourable Charles Spencer (born 1964). Following her  parents' acrimonious divorce in 1969 (over Lady Althorp's affair with wallpaper heir Peter Shand Kydd), Diana's mother took her and her younger brother to live in an apartment inLondon's Knightsbridge, where Diana attended a local day school. That Christmas theSpencer children went to celebrate with their father and he subsequently refused to allowthem to return to London with their mother. Lady Althorp sued for custody of her children,

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 but Lady Althorp's mother's testimony against her daughter during the trial contributed tothe court's decision to award custody of Diana and her brother to their father.

In 1976 Lord Spencer married Raine, Countess of Dartmouth, the only daughter of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland, after he was named as the "other party" in the

Dartmouths' divorce. During this time Diana travelled up and down the country, living between her parents' homes—with her father at the Spencer seat in Northamptonshire, andwith her mother, who had moved to the Island of Seil off the west coast of Scotland. Diana,like her siblings, did not get along with her stepmother.

Diana was born into the Spencer family. On her mother's side, Diana had English, Irish,Scottish, American and remote Armenian ancestry. One of her great-grandmothers on her mother's side was the New York heiress Frances Work . On her father's side, she was adescendant of  King Charles II of England through four illegitimate sons:

• Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Grafton, son by Barbara Villiers, 1st Duchess of 

Cleveland• Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, son by Louise de Kérouaille• Charles Beauclerk , son by Nell Gwyn• James Crofts- Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, leader of a famous rebellion, son by

Lucy Walter 

She was also a descendant of King James II of England through a daughter, HenriettaFitzJames. Henrietta's mother was Arabella Churchill, the sister of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, therefore she was related to all eleven Dukes of Marlborough. She wasalso related to Sir Winston Churchill. Other notable ancestors included Robert the Bruce;King Henry IV of England; Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester ; Mary Boleyn; Lady CatherineGrey; Maria de Salinas; John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater ; and James Stanley, 7thEarl of Derby.[2]

The Spencers had been close to the British Royal Family for centuries, rising in royalfavour during the 1600s. Diana's maternal grandmother, Ruth, Lady Fermoy, was a long-time friend and a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother .

In August 2007, the  New England Historic Genealogical Society published Richard K.Evans' The Ancestry of Diana, Princess of Wales, for Twelve Generations.