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Dr. Frances Kelsey, The Woman Who Saved The US From The Worst Pharmaceutical Disaster In History

Guest ContributorAugust 1, 2019

By James Essinger - Most people in the United States today have never heard of the drug thalidomide, but they ought to know the danger they escaped. I...

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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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Powerful “Harriet” Film Trailer Offers First Look At Cynthia Erivo As American Hero Harriet Tubman

wyskJuly 23, 2019

Focus Features has just released the first trailer for "Harriet", the highly-anticipated biopic based on the inspiring life of American freedom fighter, hero, ...

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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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Trapped in a Velvet Prison: The Private Musical Genius of Fanny Mendelssohn

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 10, 2019

Mendelssohn. Thirty years ago, that name carried two associations: as the surname of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher who brought a modernized Judaism int...

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Amy McGrath, Lt. Col, US Marine Corps (Ret.), Announces Senate Run, On A Mission To Unseat Mitch McConnell

wyskJuly 9, 2019

Retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Amy McGrath, the first woman Marine to fly in an F-18 in combat, just dropped this video announcing her campaign for U.S. Sen...

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Nobel Prize Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard And The Mysteries Of Embryo Development

Dale DeBakcsyJune 26, 2019

How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human? It is one of the m...

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Barbara Strozzi, Master Of The 17th Century Love Song

Dale DeBakcsyJune 19, 2019

Between the monophonic spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and the lush, human lyricism of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) there lie five centuries, a Renaissance,...

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