Dale DeBakcsy, Author at Women You Should Know®

Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman In Space

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2019

"It is I, Sea Gull!" The words, full of meaning both personal for the speaker and cultural for the country listening below, were the first spoken by a woman...

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Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga Of Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 4, 2019

When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her. The previous year she ...

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Caroline Haslett And The Rise Of The Women’s Engineering Society

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 28, 2019

1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World War, millions had pe...

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Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 21, 2019

In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...

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Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California’s First Woman Structural Engineer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 14, 2019

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ev...

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One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 7, 2019

1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tail on Reconstruction ...

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Queen Of The Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod And The Professionalization Of Archaeology

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 31, 2019

There is a deep seam that lies astride the history of European archaeology - on one side you have the hero-explorers, men and women who took impossibly romanti...

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The Woman Who Invented the Modern Concert: Clara Schumann, Master of the Piano

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 24, 2019

In mid-nineteenth century Europe, two colossi of the keyboard crisscrossed the continent, leaving masses of ecstatic fans in their wake, and they could not hav...

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The Queen Of Trees: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai And The Rise Of The Green Belt Movement

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 17, 2019

Imagine a patch of land brimming with rich topsoil. Within that dark brown earth lies the core of a civilization - its ability to feed itself. Prot...

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