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May 16, 2023 · Rosa Parks, Amelia Earhart, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Michelle Obama are just some of the women who have become famous for shaping history as we know it.
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- Jane Austen (1775 –1817) You can thank Jane Austen for basically creating those rom-com books you love to read. In her teenage years during the early 1810s, she started writing her most famous novels, like Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Ada Lovelace's genius was years before her time. As an English mathematician, she is credited with being the world's first computer programmer.
- Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) Florence Nightingale, a.k.a. Lady with the Lamp, was a British nurse who is credited as the founder of modern-day nursing.
- Nellie Bly (1864-1922) Nellie Bly basically set the standard for investigative journalism. At a time when women writers were confined to the society pages, Bly tackled more serious topics like mental health, poverty, and corruption in politics.
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- Madonna. Madonna: Which one? The singer and sometimes-actress—and very successful self-promoter and businesswoman? The mother of Jesus? The image of Mary and other saintly mothers in medieval paintings?
- Marilyn Monroe. Actress and icon Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working in a World War II defense plant. She was considered an icon and epitomized a certain image for women in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Cleopatra. Cleopatra, the last Pharaoh of Egypt, had infamous liaisons with Julius Caesar and Mark Antony while trying to keep Egypt out of Rome's clutches.
- Anne Frank. Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl in the Netherlands, kept a diary during the time she and her family were hiding from the Nazis. She did not survive her time in a concentration camp, but her diary still speaks of hope in the midst of war and persecution.
Mar 30, 2017 · 50 Photos Celebrating Women’s History. By All That's Interesting | Edited By John Kuroski. Published March 30, 2017. Updated April 3, 2017. 1899. One of the first women's basketball teams.Wikimedia Commons. 1905. Native American women on a Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana circa 1905.Denver Public Library. 1889.
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- Fatima al-Fihri. In the early 9th century, in what is now Morocco, Fatima al-Fihri could have lived the rest of her life as a wealthy heiress when she inherited a fortune after her father died.
- Maya Angelou. Maya Angelou was a writer, poet, civil rights activist, dancer, and director best known for titles such as her autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
- Sofonisba Anguissola. Unlike men, female artists in Renaissance Italy weren’t allowed to learn their craft by becoming masters’ apprentices. But that didn’t stop Sofonisba Anguissola from studying with other artists like Bernardino Campi, Bernardino Gatti (Il Sojaro), and even Michelangelo himself.
- Susan B. Anthony. The year 2019 year marked the 100th anniversary of (many) women gaining the right to vote in the United States—and 2020 marked the 200th birthday of one of the women who made it possible: Susan B. Anthony.
By Google Arts & Culture. Photo, Ida B Wells National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously said that “well-behaved women rarely make history”, which is true of these...
Aug 9, 2018 · Marie Curie, 1867–1934. Marie Curie. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images) Marie Curie changed the world not once but twice. She founded the new science of radioactivity – even the word was invented by her – and her discoveries launched effective cures for cancer.
