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U.S. Navy Master Chief (Ret.) And 6-Year-Old Girl Fuel Toy Seller To Make ‘Plastic Army Women’ Set A Reality

wyskOctober 3, 2019

For "at least 3 years", Jeff Imel, President of VictoryBuy Inc., a family owned and operated online retailer of Plastic Army Men and other classic toys, had be...

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Forgetting Elizebeth Friedman: How America’s Greatest Cryptanalyst Lay Unnoticed For A Half Century

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 25, 2019

When World War I came at last to the United States, the armed forces found themselves in the embarrassing predicament of having no idea whatsoever on how to de...

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46 Years Ago Today: Billie Jean King Defeated Bobby Riggs In Battle Of The Sexes

wyskSeptember 20, 2019

More than 50 million Americans tuned in to watch, making it the most viewed U.S. tennis match of all time. More importantly, King's victory made it a game-changer for women’s tennis....

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Born Not Taught: Marian Koshland And The Source Of Antibody Variation

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 18, 2019

The human body is a truly wonderful place to live, if you can fit in it. It's warm and protected and, because humans are so clever at finding all the bes...

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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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You Should Know Monopoly Inventor Lizzie Magie… And Hasbro Should Finally Give This Trailblazer Her Credit Due

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

On Tuesday, game-maker Hasbro introduced Ms. Monopoly, "the first game in the franchise that celebrates women trailblazers." The press release goes on to say, ...

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Untold And Lost No More: Celebrating 150 Episodes Of Dale DeBakcsy’s ‘Women In Science’ You Should Know Column

wyskSeptember 5, 2019

Five years into our now eight year mission to tell the untold, often ignored, and altogether lost or erased stories of women who deserve a giant spotlight on t...

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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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