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1. I am almost 30,000 years old. By today's standards, one would hardly consider me beautiful. I have a steatopygic figure and large, hanging breasts. I don't even have a face! However, at one time, I was given the name of a goddess.
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2. I am a daughter of Zeus and Leda, a sister of Clytemnestra, Castor and Polydeuces, a queen of Sparta. A ten year war was fought because of my affair with a barbarian prince and a mighty city was burnt to the ground.
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3. I am the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten and my name means "the beautiful has arrived". My bust is one of the most famous pieces of Egyptian art.
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4. I am one of the Four Beauties of Ancient China, a peasant girl, a concubine and a trained spy. I am so beautiful that "when I lean over my balcony to look at the pond, the fish become so dazzled by my reflection that they forget to swim and sink to the bottom of the pond."
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5. I am the goddess of love, emerging from the foam of the sea on a seashell. I live in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
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6. My Ottoman name is Hurrem Sultana but I am the daughter of an Ukrainian Christian priest and rose from slave girl to the wife of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent.
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(Hint: My name sounds a little like the name of another royal wife, of Alexander the Great.)
7. My reclining figure can be seen on my family's tomb in the First Cemetery of Athens. I died very young, at only 18. My first name means "wisdom" in my native Greek.
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8. I was a movie star before I stole the heart of a prince and become Princess Consort of a very small and very rich Mediterranean country. A Hermes bag is named after me.
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9. I am the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, Reza Mohammad Pahlavi. He divorced me when I was only 26 years old because I couldn't bear him an heir. I was heart-broken and became known as the "Princess with the Sad Eyes."
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10. I am Somali and one of the very first super models. I am also a successful businesswoman, an actress and a spokesperson for social causes. I married a "Thin White Duke".
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