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Alexandra Morgan Carrasco (born Alexandra Patricia Morgan; July 2, 1989) is an American soccer player. She is a forward for Orlando Pride in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. Since 2018, she has co-captained the national team with Carli Lloyd and Megan Rapinoe.

Akram Monfared Arya is an Iranian-Swedish aircraft pilot, the first woman to earn a pilot’s license to fly aircraft in Iran. She is a writer, artist and politician based in Stockholm, Sweden. However, the first female pilots in Iran were flying in the 1940s.

Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary (22 June 1932 – 26 October 2001) was the queen consort (Shahbanu) of Iran as the second wife of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, whom she married in 1951.

One of the fashion world’s most beautiful and enduring platonic love stories was almost never to be. As the story goes, in 1953, while filming Sabrina, Audrey Hepburn paid a visit to French couturier Hubert de Givenchy’s studio in Paris to discuss the possibility of his designing the dresses for the film.

Oprah Winfrey is a media mogul who helmed one of the most popular TV shows in U.S. history. She used her platform to do everything from launching her own production company, Harpo (her name spelled backwards), to starting a school for girls in Africa.