📖 Sobre Dorothy
Dorothy é a forma inglesa de Doroteia ("presente de Deus"). Reinou no 2º-3º lugar dos EUA por quinze anos (1912-1927). Eternamente ligada à Dorothy Gale de Oz e à perspicácia de Dorothy Parker, é um nome de profunda ressonância cultural americana.
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⭐ Pessoas Famosas
- Dorothy Gale — Fictional heroine of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), immortalized by Judy Garland in the 1939 film — her ruby slippers and "There's no place like home" are icons of American culture
- Dorothy Parker — American poet, writer, and critic whose devastating wit made her the queen of the Algonquin Round Table, known for lines like "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses"
- Dorothy Hodgkin — British chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964) for determining the structures of important biochemical substances including penicillin and vitamin B12 using X-ray crystallography
- Dorothy Dandridge — American actress and singer who became the first African American woman nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Carmen Jones (1954), breaking Hollywood's racial barriers