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Here's the list of #91 through #100 of the top 100 women in world history, measured by how popular they are on the Net. Each is linked to a biography which includes links to related resources on this site and on the Net.

#100. Rachel Carson: Pioneer environmentalist whose book Silent Spring helped create the environmentalist movement in the late 20th century.

#99. Isadora Duncan: She brought modern dance to the world, while living (and dying) with personal tragedy.

#98. Artemisia: ruler of Halicarnassus, she helped Xerxes defeat the Greeks and then helped talk him into abandoning the war against the Greeks.

#97. Martha Graham: dancer and choreographer best known as a leader of the modern dance (expressionist) movement, expressing emotion through dance.

#96. Angela Davis: her support for revolutionary black activist George Jackson led to her arrest as a conspirator in the abortive attempt to free Jackson from a Marin County, California, courtroom. She was acquitted of all charges, and continues to teach and write about feminism, black issues and economics.

#95. Golda Meir: fourth prime minister of the State of Israel and second woman prime minister in the world, she was a labor activist, Zionist and politician. The Yom Kippur War, between Arabs and Israelis, was fought during her term as prime minister.

#94. Elizabeth Blackwell: the first woman in the world to graduate from medical school, Blackwell was also a pioneer in the education of women in medicine.

#93. Gertrude Stein: writer and associate of many of the 20th century's writers and artists, her salon in Paris was a center of modern culture. She's known for her stream-of-consciousness style.

#92. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg: a lawyer and writer, including a 1995 book on privacy, she values her own privacy and that of her family though she's been in the public eye since her father, John F. Kennedy, took office as President in 1961.

#91. Margaret Mead: American anthropologist whose groundbreaking work, especially in Samoa in the 1920s, was attacked after her death as faulty. She emphasized cultural evolution and personal observation.

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