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		Empress of France is a perfect job for Miss Thing, even when her husband’s poll numbers are in the tank. Born on a slave plantation in Martinique as Marie-Rose de Tascher de la Pagerie, Josephine survived life with the most powerful man in Europe--plus two divorces, numerous affairs and the French Revolution. And she did it all with style. Miss Thing doesn’t get any better! This Miss Thing took an ax and gave her mother forty whacks; when she saw what she had done, she gave her father forty-one. The year was 1892 and the all-male jury just knew this demure Sunday school teacher couldn’t have done such a brutal crime--so Lizzie walked free. Getting away with murder. It’s a Miss Thing classic. For Lucrezia Borgia (1480 – 1519), being Miss Thing was a family heritage. Daughter of Pope Alexander VI and sister of despot Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia was a key member of Renaissance Europe's most notorious political crime family. Already engaged twice by the age of 11, she was eventually married three times to men with powerful political ambitions. To help them along, she often wore a hollow ring that could hold poison to drop into the drinks of anyone who got in her way. Was Lucrezia a monster or just the perfect political wife? Either way, she'll always be Miss Thing to us. Cleopatra (69- 30 BC) was not only Queen of Egypt, but also Queen of Denial. When Julius Caesar denied her audience, she secretly rolled up in an oriental rug and had herself delivered at his feet. She seduced the Roman general Marc Anthony to fight her battles for her until his defeat at Actium in 31 BC. Then Cleopatra denied her enemies their ultimate triumph by poisoning herself to death with an asp hidden in a basket of figs. This Miss Thing always made her own choices and never took no for an answer. Miss Thing is always known for her razor-sharp wit, and this American critic, satirical poet and short-story writer had one that could cut glass. Consider this quote: “I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.” You go, Miss Thing . Bessie Wallace Simpson toppled a throne to become the Duchess of Windsor. This twice divorced woman captured the heart of the Prince of Wales. After his father George V’s death in 1936, Edward VIII abdicated as King of England rather than rule without the woman he loved. Born in rural Maryland, Wallace Simpson was called the Old Snake of the Potomac; her charms were so legendary that women in Baltimore would pay to sit in her bathtub just for luck. This Miss Thing started in obscurity and ended up a legend on both sides of the Atlantic . Miss Thing knows her own worth, and this mother of all Ms. Things understood the worth of every woman--even when the rest of the world didn’t. With colleagues like Susan B. Anthony, she called the first women's rights convention, kicking off the Suffragette Movement in the U.S. that eventually gave women the right to vote. This Miss Thing does it all--singer, actress, movie producer and director, Oscar-winning songwriter, and political activist. And she doesn’t let anyone tell her how to do it. Never a conventional beauty, she refused to change herself to look like everyone else. Hello, Gorgeous! Miss Thing gets what she wants. And when this Miss Thing couldn’t find scripts that were right for her, she wrote her own--in spite of the censors--and hired a young Cary Grant to come up and see her. Bawdy, gaudy and great, she even had a World War II life preserver named after her. “When I'm good, I'm good. When I'm bad, I'm very good.” When Miss Thing has an idea, nothing stands in her way. In 1884, this filthy rich Miss Thing started remodeling her California home without an architect, supposedly to pacify the ghosts of those killed by the Winchester rifle, the source of her fortune. Almost 40 years later, she ended up with a mansion so personal--and so spooky--that it still draws curious visitors from around the world.