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Sally Ride Dead: First American Woman in Space Was 61
Sally K. Ride, 32, first US woman astronaut in space as a crew member aboard space shuttle Challenger (June 18, 1983)
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Mystery solved? American teacher claims to have 'the key' to Amelia Ea
Mystery solved? American teacher claims to have 'the key' to Amelia Earhart…
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Eleanor Roosevelt’s Top 7 Fundamentals for Making Life an Exciting and Wonderful Adventure
Eleanor Roosevelt: "The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was beautiful, helpful, well-brought … She was a nice and clever girl that perfectly corresponds to her status of the first lady. Her social life was active and fruitful.
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My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck By Lightning
Eleanor Roosevelt in 1898. Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, Roosevelt continued to be an international author, speaker, politician, and activist for the New Deal coalition. She worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she…
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Funnest Feminist
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to enter and complete the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She registered u...
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Mother Teresa- rare photo
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Good night, Posterous
Florence Nightingale 1858 - this is one of my favourite pictures of her. I love the serious, thoughtful expression.
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The Film Canister
Cary Grant and Amelia Earhart.
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Eleanor Roosevelt - The young girl whose mother told her she wasn’t pretty so she would never land a husband. She went on to become a driving influence for good in the mid 1900s. Where would FDR have been without her?
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The wife who changed history - by asking for the first divorce
Meet Caroline Norton. If you have gone through a divorce and had someone advocate for your rights, you have her to thank for it. In the mid 1800's Caroline was in a loveless marriage to a man who beat her savagely. On several occasions she was thrown out of her own home, and forbidden access to her children. In those days, married women were put into the same category as "lunatics, idiots, outlaws and children". Their rights were in the hands of others. Caroline petitioned...
The real Alice in Wonderland, c 1862. Alice Liddell (1852–1934) inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Lisbeth Zwerger, Edward Steichen, David Lachapelle, John Tenniel, Go Ask Alice, Edward Weston, Alice Liddell, Urban Culture, Christopher Robin
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The real Alice in Wonderland, c 1862. Alice Liddell (1852–1934) inspired the children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.
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Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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"The most effective way to do it, is to do it!" - Amelia Earhart #Quotes #LYD #Sportsgirl