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Coconut Grove, FL

platialUser:hojpoj — 2007-11-07 06:12:05.486701+00:00

One of a set of three, women/circle series
Tags: circle, stained glass, woman, hojpoj

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Sojourner Truth lived in NYC

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:13:42.550896+00:00

African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
Tags: slavery, slave, woman, womens rights, suffrage, abolitionist

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Taimane in Waikiki

platialUser:gohawaii — 2007-10-11 15:36:02.843416+00:00

Tags: Hawaii, Waikiki, Pacific, Hawaiian, performance, travel, music, TurnHere, concert, guitar, song, Oahu, woman, ukulele

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Mary Douglas Leakey worked here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:07:55.145366+00:00

Born Feb. 6, 1913, London, England. Died Dec. 9, 1996, Nairobi, Kenya. English-born archaeologist and paleoanthropologist who made several of the most important fossil finds subsequently interpreted and publicized by her husband, the noted anthropologist Louis Leakey. (Encyclopedia Brittanica)
Tags: archeology, woman, great, arheologist, important

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Hedy Lamarr was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:36:15.562903+00:00

glamorous Austrian film star who was often typecast as a provocative femme fatale. Years after her screen career ended, she achieved recognition as a noted inventor of a radio communications device. Lamarr once insisted, "Any girl can be glamorous; all you have to do is stand still and look stupid." That she herself was anything but stupid was unequivocally proven during World War II, when, in collaboration with the avant-garde composer George Antheil, she invented an electronic device that minimized the jamming of radio signals. Though it was never used in wartime, this device is a component of present-day satellite and cellular phone technology.
Tags: woman, actress, star, movie star, inventor

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Harriet Tubman lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:31:40.450909+00:00

American bondwoman who escaped from slavery in the South to become a leading abolitionist before the American Civil War. She led hundreds of bondsmen to freedom in the North along the route of the Underground Railroad-an elaborate secret network of safe houses organized for that purpose. In 1849, on the strength of rumours that she was about to be sold, Tubman fled to Philadelphia. In December 1850 she made her way to Baltimore, Maryland, whence she led her sister and two children to freedom. That journey was the first of some 19 increasingly dangerous forays into Maryland in which, over the next decade, she conducted upward of 300 fugitive slaves along the Underground Railroad to Canada. By her extraordinary courage, ingenuity, persistence, and iron discipline, which she enforced upon her charges, Tubman became the railroad's most famous conductor and was known as the "Moses of her people." Born c. 1820, Dorchester county, Maryland, U.S. died March 10, 1913, Auburn, New York.
Tags: woman, amazing, slavery, slave, underground railroad, brave, courageous, freedom

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Crazy Lady At Friend's building

platialUser:rockdapitypie — 2006-06-02 12:17:07.053833+00:00

This crazy lady used to live in the same building as a friend of mine. She was hysterical and always managed to make me laugh when she'd dress up and do bizarre dances downstairs in the lobby.
Tags: crazy, woman, happy2exist, strange, dance, latex, bizarre, west hollywood

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residin

platialUser:nahnah — 2008-06-10 23:26:05.718899+00:00

Tags: women, love, crazy, travel, sex, poetry, music, woman, rap

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platialUser:danaughtster — 2007-05-27 11:59:15.202987+00:00

Tags: wild, sexy, woman, hott

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'A'ishah

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:38:15.848468+00:00

born 614, Mecca, Arabia (now in Saudi Arabia); died July 678, Medina. The third and most favoured wife of the Prophet Muhammad (the founder of Islam). When Muhammad died in 632, 'A'ishah was left a childless widow of 18. She remained politically inactive until the time of 'Uthman; the third caliph, or leader of the Islamic community), during whose reign she played an important role in fomenting opposition that led to his murder in 656. She led an army against his successor, 'Ali, but was defeated in the Battle of the Camel. The engagement derived its name from the fierce fighting that centred around the camel upon which 'A'ishah was mounted. Captured, she was allowed to live quietly in Medina.
Tags: history, war, politics, women, aishah, islam, muhammed, muslim, saudi arabia, medina, mecca, revolutionary, leading an army, woman, powerful woman, aishah bint abi bakr

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Jane Goodall works here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:07:32.714966+00:00

Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall. Goodall, who was interested in animal behaviour from an early age, left school at age 18. in June 1960 she established a camp in the Gombe Stream Game Reserve (now a national park) so that she could observe the behaviour of chimpanzees in the region. Over the years Goodall was able to correct a number of misunderstandings about chimpanzees. She found, for example, that the animals are omnivorous, not vegetarian; that they are capable of making and using tools; and, in short, that they have a set of hitherto unrecognized complex and highly developed social behaviours.
Tags: woman, primatologist, scientist, africa, chimpanzee

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Hypatia lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:43:36.123836+00:00

The first notable woman in mathematics. She said, "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all," To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing. Born c. 370, Alexandria, Egypt died March 415, Alexandria.
Tags: woman, pagan, mathematician, murdered by a mob

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Umm Kulthum was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:08:22.280134+00:00

Born May 4, 1904?, Tummay al-Zahayrah, Egypt. Died February 3, 1975, Cairo, Egyptian singer, who mesmerized Arab audiences from the Persian Gulf to Morocco for half a century. She was one of the most famous Arab singers and public personalities in the 20th century.
Tags: star, woman, great, singer, arab

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Greta Garbo

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 07:23:01.496594+00:00

one of the most glamorous and popular motion-picture stars of the 1920s and '30s who is best known for her portrayals of strong-willed heroines, most of them as compellingly enigmatic as Garbo herself. Born September 18, 1905, Stockholm, Sweden. Died April 15, 1990, New York, New York, U.S.
Tags: actress, swedish, strong, woman, star, movie star, actess

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Aretha Louise Franklin

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 07:27:30.66813+00:00

American singer who defined the golden age of soul music of the 1960s. In 1987 she became the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born March 25, 1942, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.
Tags: singer, soul, star, woman, gospel, africanamerican, superstar

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Ella Fitzgerald was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:04:07.851919+00:00

American singer who became world famous for the wide range and rare sweetness of her voice. She became an international legend during a career that spanned some six decades. Born April 25, 1917, Newport News, Va., U.S. Died June 15, 1996, Beverly Hills, Calif.
Tags: singer, jazz, international, star, superstar, woman, legend, voice

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Mary Cassatt was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:59:42.163726+00:00

American painter and printmaker who exhibited with the Impressionists. Cassatt lived in Europe for five years as a young girl. She was tutored privately in art in Philadelphia and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1861-65, but she preferred learning on her own and in 1866 traveled to Europe to study. In 1874 Cassatt chose Paris as her permanent residence and established her studio there. She shared with the Impressionists an interest in experiment and in using bright colours inspired by the out-of-doors. Cassatt urged her wealthy American friends and relatives to buy Impressionist paintings, and in this way, more than through her own works, she exerted a lasting influence on American taste. Born May 22, 1844, Allegheny City (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa., U.S. died June 14, 1926, Chateau de Beaufresne, near Paris, France
Tags: painter, artist, drawing, woman, impressionist, courbet, degas, influential, printmaking

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Hattie Ophelia Caraway, Arkansas Senator

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-26 18:58:12.022616+00:00

In 1902 she married Thaddeus H. Caraway, who subsequently became a congressman and then a U.S. senator for Arkansas. When Thaddeus died in November 1931 Hattie Caraway was appointed by the governor to fill her husband's seat until a special election could be held; she thereby became the second woman (after Rebecca Felton, 1922) to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She won a special election (January 1932) to fill the few remaining months of her late husband's term. She won reelection in her own right to the seat later in 1932 with the help of Louisiana governor Huey Long, who campaigned for her. Caraway was reelected again in 1938 but failed in her bid for a third term in 1944. In her 13 years in the Senate, she was the first woman to preside over a session of that body and the first to serve as a committee chairman. Born Feb. 1, 1878, near Bakerville, Tenn., U.S. died Dec. 21, 1950, Falls Church, Va.
Tags: woman, politician, senator, first female elected to the senate

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Hannah Arendt was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:09:39.930706+00:00

German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism. Arendt's reputation as a major political thinker was established by her Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which also treated 19th-century anti-Semitism, imperialism, and racism. Arendt viewed the growth of totalitarianism as the outcome of the disintegration of the traditional nation-state. Born October 14, 1906, Hannover, Germany, died December 4, 1975, New York, New York, U.S.
Tags: woman, politician, jewish, philosopher, heidegger, eichmann in jerusalem, the human condition, origins of totalitarianism

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Diane Arbus lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:57:38.480522+00:00

American photographer, best known for her compelling, often disturbing, portraits of people from the edges of society. n 1971 Arbus committed suicide. A collection of her photos was published in 1972 in connection with a successful, major exhibition of her work at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. That same year her work was shown at the Venice Biennale, marking the first time that an American photographer received that distinction. Born March 14, 1923, New York, New York, U.S., died July 26, 1971, New York City
Tags: woman, artist, photographer

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Susan B. Anthony lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:57:09.065883+00:00

Pioneer crusader for the woman suffrage movement in the United States and president (1892-1900) of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Her work helped pave the way for the Nineteenth Amendment (1920) to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote. Born Feb. 15, 1820, Adams, Mass., U.S. died March 13, 1906, Rochester, N.Y.
Tags: woman, activist, quaker, womens suffrage, suffragette, equal rights, feminist, feminism

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Catharine A. MacKinnon was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:56:20.353109+00:00

American feminist and professor of law, a controversial but influential legal theorist whose work primarily took aim at sexual harassment and pornography. n 1974, while still in law school, MacKinnon became interested in an early case involving sexual harassment and put together an argument to bolster the legal claim of the woman at the centre of the case. That argumentâ€”that sexual harassment in the workplace is also sex discrimination and therefore a violation of federal lawâ€”grew into MacKinnon's first book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women (1978). In 1986 the Supreme Court, hearing its first sexual harassment case, agreed with MacKinnon's argument by ruling unanimously that sexual harassment is sex discrimination. Born Oct. 7, 1946, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.
Tags: woman, activist, feminism, feminist, womens rights, sexual harassment, discrimination

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Liliuokalani was Queen here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:25:28.526554+00:00

first and only reigning Hawaiian queen and the last Hawaiian sovereign to govern the islands, which were annexed by the United States in 1898. As head of the Oni pa'a (Stand Firm) movement, whose motto was "Hawaii for the Hawaiians" Liliuokalani fought bitterly against annexation of the islands by the United States. Annexation nonetheless occurred in July 1898. In that year she published Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen and composed "Aloha Oe," a song ever afterward beloved in the islands. Thereafter she withdrew from public life, enjoying a government pension and the homage of islanders and visitors alike. Born Sept. 2, 1838, Honolulu, Hawaii, died Nov. 11, 1917, Honolulu.
Tags: woman, ruler, island, fight, queen, polynesia, annexation

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Rita Levi-Montalcini lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:54:54.258909+00:00

Neurologist who, with biochemist Stanley Cohen, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1986 for her discovery of a bodily substance that stimulates and influences the growth of nerve cells. Born April 22, 1909, Turin, Italy.
Tags: woman, neurologist, nobel, nobel prize, discovery

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:14:52.783932+00:00

American astronomer known for her discovery of the relationship between period and luminosity in Cepheid variables, pulsating stars that vary regularly in brightness in periods ranging from a few days to several months. Born July 4, 1868, Lancaster, Mass., U.S., died Dec. 12, 1921, Cambridge, Mass.
Tags: woman, discovery, astrologer

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Helen Keller was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:33:29.694283+00:00

American author and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities. Keller was afflicted at the age of 19 months with an illness (possibly scarlet fever) that left her blind, deaf, and mute. She was examined by Alexander Graham Bell at the age of six; as a result he sent to her a 20-year-old teacher, Anne Sullivan (Macy) from the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, which Bell's son-in-law directed. Sullivan, a remarkable teacher, remained with Keller from March 1887 until her own death in October 1936.
Tags: woman, famous, blind, deaf, writer, incredible, strength

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Oprah Winfrey was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 12:13:20.126545+00:00

American television personality, actress, and entrepreneur whose syndicated daily talk show was among the most popular of the genre. She became one of the richest and most influential women in the United States.
Tags: woman, africanamerican, powerful, television, talk show

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Bessie Smith was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:29:15.161869+00:00

American singer, one of the greatest of blues vocalists. Smith grew up in poverty and obscurity. She may have made a first public appearance at the age of eight or nine at the Ivory Theatre in her hometown. About 1919 she was discovered by Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, one of the first of the great blues singers. Known in her lifetime as the "Empress of the Blues" Smith was a bold, supremely confident artist who often disdained the use of a microphone and whose art expressed the frustrations and hopes of a whole generation of black Americans. Born April 15, 1898?, Chattanooga, Tenn., U.S., died Sept. 26, 1937, Clarksdale, Miss.
Tags: woman, africanamerican, singer, blues

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Madam C.J. Walker became the first african-American Millionairess here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 11:56:04.967179+00:00

Madam C.J. Walker - Sarah Breedlove - was a highly successful entrepreneur, widely considered to be the first African-American millionairess. Walker was known and respected not only for her business acumen but for her inspirational political and social advocacy and her philanthropy. The daughter of former slaves, Walker worked initially as a washerwoman until she devised a hair care and grooming system to meet the needs of African-American women in 1905. Supervising the manufacture of a variety of products, she also developed an enormous marketing network, headquartered in Indianapolis, that employed thousands of African-American women and was the largest African-American owned business in the nation. Walker encouraged women's economic independence by training others and by serving as a powerful role model. As the wealthiest African-American woman of her time, Walker used her prominent position to oppose racial discrimination, and her massive wealth to support civic, educational and social institutions to assist African-Americans.
Tags: africanamerican, woman, business, marketing, rich, entrepreneur, businesswoman, hair care, millionair, millionairess, hair growth tonic

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Mary Edwards Walker was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:27:38.537392+00:00

Dr. Walker, in 1855, was one of the first women in the United States to earn a medical degree. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, Dr. Walker volunteered to work on the Civil War battlefields caring for the wounded. Denied a commission as a medical officer because she was a woman, she volunteered anyway and eventually was appointed assistant surgeon of the 52nd Ohio Infantry. Captured by the Confederates in 1864, she was exchanged only after she spent four months in a Richmond, Virginia prison.he lectured throughout the United States and abroad on women's rights, dress reform, health and temperance issues, and sexual and political equality. She tried to vote, but was turned away. She rejected corsets and hoop-skirted dresses for the more practical pantsuits (trousers, jackets, top hats) and found herself arrested in New York City for impersonating a man.
Tags: woman, military, doctor, civil war, dress reform, surgeon

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Annie Dodge Wauneka fought tuberculosis here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-21 12:20:34.776437+00:00

Annie Dodge Wauneka, tribal leader of the Navajo Nation and public health activist, worked tirelessly to improve the health and welfare of the Navajo Tribe and reduce the incidence of tuberculosis nationwide. Wauneka gained election in 1951 to the Tribal Council, the second woman ever so elected. During her three terms in office, Wauneka led the fight against tuberculosis. She wrote a dictionary to translate English words into Navajo for modern medical techniques, such as vaccination. Her weekly radio broadcasts, in the Navajo language, explained how modern medicine could help improve health among the Navajo.
Tags: woman, health, leader, tuberculosis, navajo, medecine

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Amina reigned here from 1560-1610

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 13:33:12.584296+00:00

Queen Amina headed the northern Nigerian Hausa city-state of Zaria. It is thought that perhaps the Hausa were matrilineal people at that time since having a woman as queen was not all that rare. A great military leader, Amina brought most of the other Hausaland city-states into her orbit, and is credited with encouraging them to surround themselves with huge defensive mud walls. She also opened up trade routes to the south, enriching Zaria's economy with gold, slaves and cola nuts.
Tags: woman, africa, ruler, matriarch

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Mbande Nzinga ruled here from 1582-1663

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 13:35:56.646247+00:00

Nzinga (or Jinga) was the colorful queen of the Ndongo and Matamba kingdoms. She is honored for her resistance against the Portuguese who were increasingly occupying all of what is now known as Angola. Constantly driven east by the Portuguese, Nzinga organized a powerful guerrilla army, conquered the Matamba, and developed alliances to control the slave routes. She even allied with the Dutch, who helped her stop the Portuguese advancement. After a series of decisive setbacks, Nzinga negotiated a peace treaty with the Portuguese, but still refused to pay tribute to the Portuguese king.
Tags: woman, africa, ruler, matriarch

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Zora Neale Hurston studied folklore here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 13:57:33.482473+00:00

American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. In 1934 she published her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, which was well received by critics for its portrayal of African American life uncluttered by stock figures or sentimentality. Mules and Men, a study of folkways among the African American population of Florida, followed in 1935. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), a novel, Tell My Horse (1938), a blend of travel writing and anthropology based on her investigations of voodoo in Haiti, and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), a novel, firmly established her as a major author.
Tags: woman, africanamerican, voodoo, florida, writer, novelist, anthropologist, haiti, intellectual, harlem renaissance

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Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda lived and wrote here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 14:03:50.858006+00:00

Cuban playwright and poet who is considered one of the foremost Romantic writers of the 19th century and one of the greatest women poets. In 1836 Gomez went to Spain, where, except for a short period from 1859 to 1863, she lived for the rest of her life. During her Cuban stay she had a strong influence on Cuban literature. Her first poems, originally published under the pseudonym of La Peregrina (The Pilgrim), were collected in 1841 into a volume entitled Poesias liricas ("Lyrical Poems"). Combining the classical style of Manuel Jose Quintana with her own romantic vision, tinged with a pessimism born of much personal suffering, these poems rank among the most poignant in all Spanish literature. Her plays, distinctive for their poetic diction and lyrical passages, are based chiefly on historic models; her play Alfonso Munio (1844; rev. ed., Munio Alfonso, 1869), based on the life of Alfonso X, and Saul (1849), a biblical drama, achieved popular success. Her novels, such as Sab (1841), an anti-slavery work, are now almost completely forgotten. Twice widowed and with many lovers, she has been the subject of several biographies.
Tags: woman, cuban, writer, romantic, poet, spanish, playwright, la peregrina, lyrical

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Rigoberta Menchu seeks social justice he

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 14:48:15.678116+00:00

Guatemalan Indian-rights activist, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1992. Menchu was a Mayan Indian of the Quicha group. Her father, a leader of a peasant organization opposed to Guatemala's military government, died in a fire while protesting human-rights abuses by the military. Her younger brother was kidnapped, tortured, and killed by a military death squad in 1979, and her mother was kidnapped, raped, mutilated, and murdered by soldiers the following year. Menchu fled to Mexico in 1981 and was cared for there by members of a liberal Roman Catholic group. She soon joined international efforts to make the Guatemalan government cease its brutal counterinsurgency campaigns against Indian peasants, becoming a skilled public speaker and organizer in the course of her efforts. Menchu gained international prominence in 1983 with her widely translated book I, Rigoberta Menchu, in which she tells the story of her impoverished youth and recounts in horrifying detail the torture-murders of her brother and mother. She received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 for her continuing efforts to achieve social justice and mutual reconciliation in Guatemala. In the late 1990s her autobiography became the centre of controversy after its veracity was questioned, most notably by David Stoll in Rigoberta Menchu and the Story of All Poor Guatemalans (1999). Despite alleged inaccuracies in her story, Menchu continued to earn praise for bringing international attention to the situation in Guatemala. In 2004 she accepted President Oscar Berger's offer to help implement the country's peace accords.
Tags: woman, nobel prize, writer, activist, latin, peace, fighter

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Gabriela Mistral was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 14:45:54.002945+00:00

Gabriela Mistral pseudonym of Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Chilean poet, the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1945). Of Spanish, Basque, and Indian descent, Mistral grew up in a village of northern Chile and became a schoolteacher at age 15, advancing later to the rank of college professor. Throughout her life she combined writing with a career as an educator, cultural minister, and diplomat; her diplomatic assignments included posts in Madrid, Lisbon, Genoa, and Nice.
Tags: woman, writer, nobel prize, educator, cultural minister, diplomat

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Eva Peron moved Argentine politics here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-03-09 06:18:46.558385+00:00

Second wife of Argentine president Juan Peron, who, during her husband's first term as president (1946-52), became a powerful though unofficial political leader, revered by the lower economic classes. Although she never held any government post, Evita acted as de facto minister of health and labour, awarding generous wage increases to the unions, who responded with political support for Peron. After her death, Evita remained a formidable influence in Argentine politics. Her working-class followers tried unsuccessfully to have her canonized, and her enemies, in an effort to exorcise her as a national symbol of Peronism, stole her body in 1955 after Juan Peron was overthrown and secreted it in Italy for 16 years. In 1971 the military government, bowing to Peronist demands, turned over her remains to her exiled widower in Madrid. After Juan Peron died in office in 1974, his third wife, Isabel Peron, hoping to gain favour among the populace, repatriated the remains and installed them next to the deceased leader in a crypt in the presidential palace. Two years later a new military junta hostile to Peronism removed the bodies; Evita's remains were finally interred in the Duarte family crypt in Recoleta cemetery. In full Eva Duarte de Peron, byname Evita. Born May 7, 1919, Los Toldos, Arg. died July 26, 1952, Buenos Aires.
Tags: woman, actress, politician, star, evita

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Pocahantas was born here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-23 14:57:41.64959+00:00

Powhatan Indian woman who fostered peace between English colonists and Native Americans by befriending the settlers at the Jamestown Colony in Virginia and eventually marrying one of them. Pocahontas was a young girl of age 10 or 11 when she first became acquainted with the colonists who settled in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607. Pocahontas became a frequent visitor to the settlement and a friend of Smith. Her playful nature made her a favourite, and her interest in the English proved valuable to them. She sometimes brought gifts of food from her father to relieve the hard-pressed settlers. She also saved the lives of John Smith and other colonists in a trading party in January 1609 by warning them of an ambush. After Smith's return to England in late 1609, relations between the settlers and Powhatan deteriorated. The English informed Pocahontas that Smith had died. She did not return to the colony for the next four years. In the spring of 1613, however, Sir Samuel Argall took her prisoner. Treated with courtesy during her captivity, Pocahontas was converted to Christianity and was baptized Rebecca. She accepted a proposal of marriage from John Rolfe, a distinguished settler; both the Virginia governor, Sir Thomas Dale, and Chief Powhatan agreed to the marriage, which took place in April 1614. Following the marriage, peace prevailed between the English and the Indians as long as Powhatan lived. Also called Matoaka and Amonute , Christian name Rebecca . Born c. 1596, near present-day Jamestown, Virginia, U.S. died March 1617, Gravesend, Kent, England
Tags: woman, diplomat, american indian, native american

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Parks wins Pulitzer for Drama

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 19:23:14.844344+00:00

2002/04/11 Suzan-Lori Parks, with her play Topdog/Underdog, becomes the first African American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. arks, who was writing stories at age five, had a peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a military officer. She attended Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (B.A. [cum laude], 1985), where James Baldwin, who taught a writing class there, encouraged her to try playwriting. She wrote her first play, The Sinner's Place (produced 1984), while still in school. She won Obie Awards for her third play, Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom (produced 1989), and for her eighth, Venus (produced 1996), about a South African Khoisan woman taken to England as a sideshow attraction. Parks's other plays include The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World (produced 1990); The America Play (produced 1994), about a man obsessed with Abraham Lincoln; and In the Blood (produced 1999), which updates Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Parks also wrote screenplays (Girl 6, 1996) and radio plays (Pickling, 1990). Her writing has been praised for its wild poetry, its irreverence, its humour, and its concurrent profundity. Her first novel, Getting Mother's Body, was published in 2003.
Tags: africanamerican, woman, writer, playwright, pulitzer, topdogunderdog, first africanamerican woman to win the pulitzer for drama

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Carol Moseley Braun Elected Senator

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 20:37:40.451095+00:00

1992/11/03. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois was the first black woman ever elected to the United States Senate. Carol Moseley attended the University of Illinois at Chicago (B.A., 1969) and received a law degree from the University of Chicago (1972). She married Michael Braun in 1973 (divorced 1986) and worked as an assistant U.S. attorney before her election to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1978. During her 10 years there she became known for her advocacy of health-care and education reform and gun control. She was named assistant leader for the Democratic majority. From 1988 to 1992 Moseley Braun served as Cook county (Illinois) recorder of deeds. Displeased with U.S. Senator Alan Dixon's support of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, she ran against Dixon in the 1992 Democratic primary. Though poorly financed, she won an upset victory over Dixon on her way to capturing a seat in the Senate. Shortly after becoming senator, Moseley Braun won clashes with Southern senators over a patent for a Confederate insignia. She was noted for her support of individual retirement accounts for homemakers and for filibustering to restore budget monies for youth job training and for senior citizens. Her record was tarnished, however, by her helping to ease legal restrictions on the sale of two television broadcasting companies, by lavish personal spending of campaign money, and by her favouring legislation to benefit a corporate campaign donor. She also was criticized for associating with two Nigerian military dictators. In 1998 Moseley Braun lost her seat to her Republican challenger, Peter Fitzgerald. From 1999 to 2001 she served as U.S. ambassador to New Zealand. She unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 2004. (http://www.galegroup.com)
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Jemison Orbits the Earth

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 20:44:36.759366+00:00

1992/09/12. Mae Jemison becomes the first African American woman astronaut, spending more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavour. Jemison moved with her family to Chicago at the age of three. There she was introduced to science by her uncle and developed interests throughout her childhood in anthropology, archaeology, evolution, and astronomy. While still a high school student, she became interested in biomedical engineering, and after graduating in 1973, at the age of 16, she entered Stanford University. There she received degrees in chemical engineering and African American studies (1977). In 1977 Jemison entered medical school at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where she pursued an interest in international medicine. After volunteering for a summer in a Cambodian refugee camp in Thailand, she studied in Kenya in 1979. She graduated from medical school in 1981, and, after a short time as a general practitioner with a Los Angeles medical group, she became a medical officer with the Peace Corps in West Africa. There she managed health care for Peace Corps and U.S. embassy personnel and worked in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control on several research projects, including development of a hepatitis B vaccine. After returning to the United States, Jemison applied to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to be an astronaut. In October 1986, she was 1 of 15 accepted out of 2,000 applicants. Jemison completed her training as a mission specialist with NASA in 1988. She became an astronaut office representative with the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida, working to process space shuttles for launching and to verify shuttle software. Next, she was assigned to support a cooperative mission between the United States and Japan designed to conduct experiments in materials processing and the life sciences. In August 1992, STS-47 Spacelab J became the first successful joint U.S.-Japan space mission. Jemison's maiden space flight came with the week-long September 1992 mission of the shuttle Endeavor. At that time she was the only African American woman astronaut. After completing her NASA mission, she formed the Jemison Group, to develop and market advanced technologies. (http://www.britannica.com)
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Jameson Heads Ailey Dance Theater

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-07 06:19:56.677168+00:00

1989. Modern dancer Judith Jamison becomes the artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, following Ailey's death. Jamison began taking dance lessons at age six at the Judimar School of Dance. She left her studies at Fisk University to attend the Philadelphia Dance Academy (now the University of the Arts), where she later became a visiting distinguished professor. Discovered by Agnes de Mille, Jamison made her New York City debut with the American Ballet Theatre. She performed her debut with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company in "Conga Tango Palace" in 1965. Her height (5 feet 10 inches) and elegant, striking presence helped make her an immediate success with the company. In 1971 Ailey choreographed Cry expressly for Jamison; a 15-minute solo depicting the struggles of black women, it became her signature piece. She performed extensively both in the United States and abroad. In 1972 Jamison married Miguel Godreau, a former member of the AAADT. She left the Ailey company in 1980 to star in the Broadway musical hit Sophisticated Ladies. She also began to choreograph dances, and the AAADT premiered her first work, Divining, in 1984. Her other works include Just Call Me Dance (1984), Into the Life (1987), Hymn (1993), Sweet Release (1996), and Double Exposure (2000). She established her own 12-member troupe, the Jamison Project, in 1988. After Ailey's death in 1989, Jamison became artistic director of the Ailey troupe and its school. In doing so, she became the first African American woman to direct a major modern dance company. Jamison's autobiography, Dancing Spirit, written with Howard Kaplan, was published in 1993. The recipient of numerous awards, Jamison received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999 and the National Medal of Arts in 2001. (http://www.britannica.com/)
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Joyner Wins Three Gold Medals

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-07 07:46:18.356614+00:00

1988. Runner Florence Griffith Joyner captures three gold medals and a silver in the Seoul Olympics. Griffith started running at age seven, chasing jackrabbits to increase her speed. In 1980 she entered the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A., 1983), to train with coach Bob Kersee. At the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, she won a silver medal in the 200-metre race and quickly became a media celebrity with her 6-inch (15-cm) decorated fingernails and eye-catching racing suits. Disappointed with her performance, however, she went into semiretirement. In 1987 she rededicated herself to the sport, adopting an intense weight-training program and altering her starting technique. That same year she married Al Joyner, winner of the 1984 gold medal in the triple jump and brother of Jackie Joyner-Kersee, a heptathlon champion. The changes produced dramatic results. At the 1988 Olympic trials, Griffith Joyner set a world record in the 100-metre sprint (10.49 seconds), beating the old mark by 0.27 second and improving her previous best by more than half a second. Later that year at the Olympics in South Korea, she captured three gold medals (100 metres, 200 metres, and 4 ´ 100-metre relay) and a silver (4 ´ 400-metre relay). In 1988 Griffith Joyner received the Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur performer. Though her remarkable performances sparked rumours of steroid use, drug tests revealed no banned substances. After retiring in 1989, Griffith Joyner established a foundation for underprivileged children and from 1993 to 1995 served as the cochair of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. A comeback attempt in 1996 ended following a leg injury. She was inducted into the Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1995. (http://www.britannica.com/)
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Alice Walker Earns Pulitzer

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-07 07:57:29.281718+00:00

1983. Writer Alice Walker receives the Pulitzer Prize for The Color Purple. Walker was the eighth child of African American sharecroppers. While growing up she was accidentally blinded in one eye, and her mother gave her a typewriter, allowing her to write instead of doing chores. She received a scholarship to attend Spelman College, where she studied for two years before transferring to Sarah Lawrence College. After graduating in 1965, Walker moved to Mississippi and became involved in the civil rights movement. She also began teaching and publishing short stories and essays. She married in 1967, but the couple divorced in 1976. Walker's first book of poetry, Once, appeared in 1968, and her first novel, The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970), a narrative that spans 60 years and three generations, followed two years later. A second volume of poetry, Revolutionary Petunias and Other Poems, and her first collection of short stories, In Love and Trouble: Stories of Black Woman, both appeared in 1973. The latter bears witness to sexist violence and abuse in the African American community. After moving to New York, Walker completed Meridian (1976), a novel describing the coming of age of several civil rights workers in the 1960s. Walker later moved to California, where she wrote perhaps her most popular novel, The Color Purple (1982). Written in epistolary form, the novel depicts the growing up and self-realization of an African American woman between 1909 and 1947 in a town in Georgia. The book won a Pulitzer Prize and was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 1985. Walker also cofounded Wild Tree Press (1984–88). Her later works include In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), The Temple of My Familiar (1989), Possessing the Secret of Joy (1992), and By the Light of My Father's Smile (1998). Walker also wrote juvenile fiction and critical essays on such women writers as Flannery O'Connor and Zora Neale Hurston. (http://www.britannica.com)
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Kate Sheppard - SUFFRAGIST

platialUser:barnaclebarnes — 2006-01-24 14:54:28.133706+00:00

The leader and main figurehead of the suffragist movement in New Zealand - the first country in the world to grant universal adult suffrage to men and women equally. Kate was a source of inspiration to suffragist and campaigners for equality between the sexes, both in New Zealand and throughout the world.
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Flowers Wins Bobsledding Gold

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 19:30:20.859574+00:00

2002/02. Athlete Vonetta Flowers wins a gold medal in the women's bobsled event, becoming the first African American to win at the Winter Olympics. (http://www.britannica.com)
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Elders named Surgeon General

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 20:30:45.662887+00:00

1993/09/07. Joycelyn Elders becomes the first African American woman to serve as the U.S. surgeon general. (http://www.britannica.com)
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Toni Morrison Wins Nobel Prize

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-02-06 20:34:08.884019+00:00

1993/10/07. Writer Toni Morrison, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Beloved, receives the Nobel Prize for Literature. Morrison grew up in the American Midwest in a family that possessed an intense love of and appreciation for black culture. Storytelling, songs, and folktales were a deeply formative part of her childhood. She attended Howard University (B.A., 1953) and Cornell University (M.A., 1955). After teaching at Texas Southern University for two years, she taught at Howard from 1957 to 1964. In 1965 she became a fiction editor. From 1984 she taught writing at the State University of New York at Albany, leaving in 1989 to join the faculty of Princeton University. Morrison's first book, The Bluest Eye (1970), is a novel of initiation concerning a victimized adolescent black girl who is obsessed by white standards of beauty and longs to have blue eyes. In 1973 a second novel, Sula, was published; it examines (among other issues) the dynamics of friendship and the expectations for conformity within the community. Song of Solomon (1977) is told by a male narrator in search of his identity; its publication brought Morrison to national attention. Tar Baby (1981), set on a Caribbean island, explores conflicts of race, class, and sex. The critically acclaimed Beloved (1987), which won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction, is based on the true story of a runaway slave who, at the point of recapture, kills her infant daughter in order to spare her a life of slavery. Jazz (1992) is a story of violence and passion set in New York City's Harlem during the 1920s. A work of criticism, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, also was published in 1992. Her novel Paradise (1998) is a richly detailed portrait of a black utopian community in Oklahoma. Her later novel, Love (2003), is an intricate family story that reveals the myriad facets of love and its ostensible opposite. The central theme of Morrison's novels is the black American experience; in an unjust society her characters struggle to find themselves and their cultural identity. Her use of fantasy, her sinuous poetic style, and her rich interweaving of the mythic gave her stories great strength and texture. (http://www.britannica.com)
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Good Vibrations

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-09-22 11:31:07.294602+00:00

Enter from rear parking lot. (617) 264-4400 Regular Hours: Friday-Wednesday: 12:00 pm - 9:00 pm Thursdays: 12:00 pm - 7:00 pm Five of us set out to explore this famouse female-centric sex shop. The atmosphere is good. I've never seen so many different vibrators in one place before. As advertised, the staff is super. Knowledgeable, comfortable, everything you want in the person from whom you're buying your smut. This is the perfect sex shop for the beginner and the dabbler. They have a particularly large selection at the entry level (pun intended) of sex toys. Unintimidating sizes of toys that can be intimidating. Inexpensive starter kits like the "Bend Over Beginner" pictured to the left. Loads of lube. Friendly beginner bondage and S&M toys. One of my friends bought an adorable little crop with a pink leather kitty cat head at the business end. Très Betty Page. After our visit, my friends and I sat down to take some notes. * check the website for coupons. * They have classes which sound really fun. * lots of books * that sure is a big selection of dildos and harnesses * no fetish clothes * rubber ducky vibrator.... I want one! * games for couples and groups * lotsa lube * party packs are lame * they don't have much back stock
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Frieda Kahlo lived here

platialUser:tracy_the_astonishing — 2006-01-20 13:11:33.230998+00:00

exican painter noted for her intense, brilliantly coloured self-portraits painted in a primitivistic style. Though she denied the connection, she is often identified as a Surrealist.
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