One summer day in 1942, when some students at a Brussels elementary school arrived with yellow…
Kategoria: Famous Women
Nellie Cashman: Pioneer of the American Gold Rush
When thousands of men rushed to the Klondike in 1898 in pursuit of gold, fifty-three-year-old Nellie…
Mae Jemison: First Black Woman in Space
When NASA reviewed 2,000 astronaut applications in 1987, only 15 people were selected. Among them was…
Billie Holiday: Jazz Icon Who Changed American Music
Eleanora Fagan, known to the world as Billie Holiday, journeyed from Harlem nightclubs to the status…
Elisabeth Eidenbenz: The Savior of Elne’s Children
Six hundred children owe their lives to a woman who officially ran an ordinary home for…
Mary Kingsley: Trailblazing Explorer of West Africa
Victorian England had strict rules stating that women were meant to keep house, not explore uncharted…
Agnes Giberne: Victorian Science for Children
In the second half of the 19th century, British children’s literature experienced a period of intense…
Sofia Kovalevskaya: The First Female Math Professor
In the second half of the 19th century, universities in most European countries remained closed to…
Virginia Apgar and the Birth of a Life-Saving Test
Virginia Apgar was a woman who transformed a chaotic field of medicine into a precise science…
Mary Agnes Chase: Pioneering Scientist and Suffragist
Mary Agnes Chase made history as a world-class expert on grasses, even though she formally ended…