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One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 21, 2020

In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...

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Florence Bascom: The Many Facets Of Geology’s “Stone Lady”

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 7, 2020

There is a special poetry in rocks available to a select few and utterly incomprehensible to absolutely everybody else. While ninety-nine pairs of eyes o...

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Gertrude Bell, Byzantine Archaeology, And The Founding Of Iraq

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 23, 2020

The art of Strenuous Living is one we usually associate with the generation of nervous over-achievers who grew up after the US Civil War, during the age that s...

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Where Sex Begins: The Chromosomal Investigations Of Nettie Stevens

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 9, 2020

If you were to ask an ancient Greek how it is determined that a baby is born a boy or a girl, they would have had some interesting and very compelling theories...

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The Many Wars Of Florence Nightingale

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 2, 2020

Though we think of her as the Lady With the Lamp, tirelessly patrolling the sick wards of the Crimean War offering solace and healing to soldiers who had been ...

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The Modern Amphitrite: The Many Nautical Revolutions Of Janet Taylor

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 27, 2020

The nineteenth century saw Great Britain expanding vociferously into new markets, extending its influence, for better or worse, into every corner of the globe ...

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Bringing Science To Psychoanalysis: The Many Survivals of Sabina Spielrein

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 12, 2020

The life of Russian psychologist Sabina Spielrein (1885-1942) began in emotional and physical abuse, and ended with the murder of herself and her two daughters...

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The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind Of Clémence Royer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 5, 2020

When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for Complete Knowledge.&n...

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A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 29, 2020

In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In 1991, she was a ...

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