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Did you know... contributions
Did you know...
... that the systems in the Mada’in Qada region?
... that the facility on the East Coast of the United States?
... that a recent cyber attack targeted opponents of bauxite mining in Vietnam ?
... that political strategist Rod Shealy sought to increase the turnout of white voters in South Carolina by paying an unemployed black fisherman to run for Congress in 1990?
... that Illinois Senate candidate LeAlan Jones created the award-winning radio documentary Ghetto Life 101 when he was 13 years old?
... that Canada's co-operatives
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... that Armajaro 's hedge fund manager is known as "Chocolate Finger" for his exploits in cocoa trading ?
... that ?
... that Michele Bachmann and Tom Emmer will appear in My War , a documentary about the Christian youth ministry You Can Run But You Cannot Hide International ?
... that actress and chanteuse SS Leviathan
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... that Harlan Crow 's collection of statues at his Dallas residence includes those of Fidel Castro , Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong ?
... that the open access mandates
for federally funded research?
... that the woodcuts of modernist printmaker Blanche Lazzell (pictured) were influenced by ukiyo-e ?
... that Nina Wilcox Putnam wrote the story that was the basis for The Mummy and drafted the first 1040 income tax form ?
... that civil rights pioneer Nellie Stone Johnson was the first black person to be elected to a citywide office in Minneapolis ?
... that in the upcoming US Supreme Court case of Fisher v. University of Texas , a white woman argues that the university discriminated against her based on race?
... that after being born on a ship in the North Sea and growing up in poverty, Hannah Kempfer (pictured) went on to become one of the first women legislators in Minnesota ?
... that jazz trio tribute show?
... that the Illinois Manufacturers' Association has its origins in a group formed to oppose laws against sweatshops ?
... that First Lady Michelle Obama describes Thomas Jefferson 's attempts to grow four-foot-long cucumbers in her gardening book American Grown ?
... that pioneering immunologist Bunny Koshland helped develop an oral cholera vaccine before she worked on the Manhattan Project ?
... that the documentary a confidential memo written in 1971
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... that Tar Heel Annie Lowrie Alexander (pictured) was the first licensed female physician in the Southern United States ?
... that Margarete Bieber was the second woman to become a university professor in Germany?
... that neuropsychologist Eleanor Maguire was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for demonstrating that London taxi drivers have large hippocampi ?
... that aquatic botanist Marietta Pallis studied the floating reed systems of the Danube Delta ?
... that Buffy Sainte-Marie 's song "Now That the Buffalo's Gone " originally mentioned that the Kinzua Dam broke the Treaty of Canandaigua ?
... that the Lesbian Herstory Archives hold the library of the New York City chapter of the Daughters of Bilitis ?
... that attorney Harriet Pilpel counted Betty Friedan , Mel Brooks , Stalin's daughter and Dr. Spock among her clients?
... that Loretta Lynn (pictured) , Mary Breckinridge , and Thelma Stovall are all Kentucky Women Remembered ?
... that Sara Bard Field (pictured) traveled by automobile from San Francisco to Washington, D.C. in 1915 to deliver a petition with 500,000 signatures for women's suffrage to Woodrow Wilson ?
... that Soosan Firooz has been described as Afghanistan's first female rapper?
... that the coon songs of African American vaudevillian Irving Sayles elicited encores in Australia ?
... that ?
... that Maxine Feldman ' s song "Amazon" is traditionally performed at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival ?
... that Katharine Hepburn recruited Hilda Crosby Standish to be medical director of the first birth control clinic in Connecticut ?
... that while Claude Raguet Hirst 's painting A Gentleman's Table (pictured) was commissioned by a men's club, it offers a subtle critique of male culture?
... that Kuwaiti electrochemist Faiza Al-Kharafi was the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East ?
... that pork-knockers ate pickled pork of wild pig?
... that the female superhero
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... that Florence Koehler was one of the best-known jewelers of the Arts and Crafts movement ?
... that the first modern cochlear implant was developed by Austrian electrical engineer Ingeborg Hochmair ?
... that the Ph.D dissertation of taphonomist sauropods
were terrestrial?
... that female physicist Elizabeth Laird came out of retirement during WWII to research radar?
... that Somali Americans
to be elected to a U.S. municipal office?
... that Deborah Sussman (pictured) designed the visual landscape for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles ?
... that Judith Pipher has been referred to as the "mother of infrared astronomy ?"
... that Marie-Hélène Lefaucheux orchestrated her husband's release from a concentration camp after he was captured by the Gestapo ?
... that the Downton Abbey law allows for equal succession of female heirs to hereditary titles and peerages?
... that blind poet María Josefa Mujía was Bolivia's first woman writer after its independence?
... that Ronald Reagan designated a week in June to be National Dairy Goat Awareness Week ?
... that Chilean Environment Minister Adriana Hoffmann identified 106 new species of cacti?
... THAT FEMINIST HULK SMASH GENDER BINARY AND ONLY MAKE CAPITALIZATION EXCEPTION FOR bell hooks ?
... that Betty Bone Schiess is one of the Philadelphia Eleven , leaders in the movement to allow the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church ?
... that although possibly illiterate, Dinah Nuthead was one of the first licensed women printers in the Thirteen Colonies ?
... that Cuban poet Magaly Alabau and Ana María Simo founded Medusa's Revenge, New York's first lesbian theater?
... that Myra Adele Logan was the first woman to perform open heart surgery?
... that Women's Art Resources of Minnesota pairs emerging women artists with professionals in a mentorship program?
... that a Spiderwoman Theater performance in Italy was cancelled for fear of riots?
... that feminist artists invented the WEB in 1971?
... that Abbie Lathrop 's mouse number 57 was the origin of the C57BL/6 (pictured) laboratory mouse?
Self-portrait of Kendall
Grip, Dickens's raven
Yokcushlu
Frédéric Chopin
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It is like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks.[1]
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