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[9 May 2008 | No Comment | ]

I was going to write about oil fields today, but since Sunday is Mother’s Day, I figured this was a good time to do a little research and find some notable mothers.
Of course, every famous person has a mother, so I wanted to find some that particularly stand out:

Olympias of Epirus
How many mothers can say their kid grew up to conquer the world? Very few. Olympias of Epirus is one of them, having given birth to Alexander III of Macedon, famously known as Alexander the Great.
Olympias was actually …