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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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Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories Of The World’s First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe

Dale DeBakcsyOctober 14, 2020

Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing nothing more in her lif...

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

wyskSeptember 20, 2020

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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Her Story: The Amazing Life Of Reva Stern Stetten Gornbein Who Turns 100 Today

Guest ContributorSeptember 10, 2020

What can one woman accomplish in 100 years? A full life, well-lived if you are Reva Stern Stetten Gornbein (b. September 10, 1920). Her path has been a kaleido...

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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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Apparently It Was So Scary For Men To Supervise Women Workers In 1944, This “How To” Film Was Made

wyskSeptember 7, 2020

"Women scare me. At least they do in a factory." - 'Joe', Factory Line Supervisor, 1944, speaking of the problems he’s having supervising women workers To keep ...

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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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