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| | Teen Angel - washingtonpost.com |
 | | Joan of Arc (1412-1431), dead while in her teens, didn't have much time. |
 | | That illiterate, sincere, cross-dressing young woman -- who talked to saints and angels, led an army into battle and helped liberate her land -- got as close to immortality as humans ever get. |
 | | Mark Twain, the Ringling Bros., Shakespeare, Voltaire, the United States government, George Bernard Shaw, Napoleon, Ingrid Bergman, many painters (good and not so good), Pope Benedict XV and Cecil B. De Mille all fell under her spell, and helped make her a celebrity for reasons of their own. |
| www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/26/AR2006112601054.html (677 words) |
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