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Barbe-Nicole Clicquot: Widowed at 27, She Founded the Most Prestigious Champagne Brand in the World

She was widowed at the age of 27, as a mother to a 3-year-old daughter. Napoleon’s wars occupied the world, and importing goods from France

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August 16, 2020
Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Female Scientists That Didn’t Let Anyone Stop Them

It’s no secret that women’s achievements in science have often been overlooked. Here are some groundbreaking women in science who didn’t let sexism stop them.

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August 11, 2020

Carolina Maria de Jesus: She Lived In the Slums, Had An Elementary-School Education, and Wrote a Best-Seller

“And so, on May 13th, 1958, I found myself fighting against modern slavery: hunger!” So wrote Carolina Maria de Jesus in her journal, in one

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July 29, 2020

Violet Jessop: She Survived the Titanic and Two Other Maritime Disasters

Violet Jessop was lucky from a young age. She was born in Argentina in 1887 to Irish immigrants. She became ill with what her doctors

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July 22, 2020

Miriam Makeba: The Black Singer Who Was Born During Apartheid and Became “The Voice of Africa”

Miriam Makeba was first sent to prison when she was just 18 years old. It was 1932, during the Great Depression. Her mother, who typically

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July 20, 2020

Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz: The 17-year-old Who Proved That She Was Smarter Than Mexico’s Experts

Imagine yourself at 17. Imagine that you’re sitting across 40 of the smartest and most educated people in the country – and next to them

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July 16, 2020

Lise Meitner: Women Weren’t Allowed to Attend University. She Self-Studied Her Way to a Doctorate.

She was the first woman in Germany to become a full professor; Albert Einstein called her “the German Marie Curie,” and after World World II,

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July 2, 2020

Mary Pickford: Hollywood’s Big Star Fought Against the Studios

She was one of Hollywood’s first stars, known as America’s Sweetheart (despite being born in Canada), but she was also a savvy businesswoman, and along

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June 29, 2020

Turia Pitt: Most of Her Body Burned as She Ran, But She Didn’t Let That Stop Her

“I heard a noise, so I took off my headphones and raised my head. Then, I saw the fire. The huge wall of fire that

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June 29, 2020

June Almeida: The Scottish Woman Who Dropped Out of School and Discovered Coronavirus

June Almeida was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1930, and died in 2007 – long before the Novel Coronavirus, COVID-19, took our lives by storm.

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June 27, 2020
מארי אנינג

Mary Anning: The 12-Year-Old That Discovered the First Dinosaur

A guest post by Yael Gazit Everyone who has ever watched Friends knows what Ross’s job is (Paleontology), but have you ever wondered where this

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June 26, 2020

Genie Chance: The Earth Beside Her Shook, So She Broadcasted for 59 Straight Hours

On Friday, March 27th, 1964, the ground in Alaska shook. It didn’t just shake – the earthquake was a 9.2 on the Richter scale – 

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June 26, 2020
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