In 1903, Madame Curie was honored with her first Nobel Prize in Physics, shared by her husband Pierre and French Physicist Henri Becquerel, “in recognition of the extraordinary services they have rendered by their joint researches on the radiation phenomena discovered by Professor Henri Becquerel.”
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“If you refuse us our rights as citizens, I will bring charges against you in Criminal Court and I will sue each of you personally for large, exemplary damages!I know I can win. I have Judge Selden as a lawyer. […]
“I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.” – Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), some have labeled her a “cross-dresser”, but according to her diaries, she dressed as a man in order to be “free.” […]
She was not only the first woman to run for U.S. President, she and her sister were the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street and she was the first woman to address a congressional committee. […]
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first women to enter and run the Boston Marathon. For several years, another woman, Roberta Gibb, ran in the race, but did not dare register, not that she could. Women were not allowed to run in any marathons until 1972. […]
Mary’s story could be told in her photo. From the beginning, I just couldn’t reconcile the heartbreak in her face with the story posted, nor did it fit with the way women or African-Americans were treated in the lat 1800s. […]
It’s hard to believe that one business, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, employed 600 people in 1911 to make one item – a shirtwaist – a tailored women’s shirt that was blousey at the top and […]
Need a invention that will lower, even eliminate our dependence on oil? Look to a woman. According to the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index, which measures Americans’ perceptions on inventing and innovations, women ages 16-25 “indicate […]
It’s difficult to tell who made the first move that Saturday morning, March 6, 1971. It was true that women did not lack for a worthy cause at that time, so when 150 of them […]
On June 2nd, 1958, Mildred Dolores Jeter married her longtime sweetheart Richard Perry Loving in Washington, D.C. She was just 18 and pregnant with their first child. Five weeks after the wedding, on July 14th, […]
“I’m not living the blues; I’m just singing for the women who think they can’t speak out. Can’t a man alive mistreat me, ’cause I know who I am.” – Alberta Hunter (1895-1984), one of […]
“…to those who ask why the word [persons] should include females the obvious answer is why should it not?” – Lord Chancellor, Privy Council In every generation, there is always a rabble-rouser, someone who inserts […]
Billie Jean King won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, 16 Grand Slam women’s doubles titles, and 11 Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, she was the first woman in professional tennis to make over $100,000 a […]
“My mother could probably pass the physical exam that they give preseason for the Redskins, but I doubt if she could play too many games for them.” John Glenn, (July 18, 1962) testimony before the […]
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