Pullitzer Prize winner Laurel Ulrich is a historian of early America and the history of women, a university professor at Harvard University.
She is author of the quote: "Well-behaved women rarely make history."
Ulrich's innovative and widely influential approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people."
Anyone for Bingo? You bet!
My ex mother-in-law played bingo all the time, and loved it. When she couldn’t go out to play anymore, she played via the TV. Still loved it.
I play it too – with my Mom at the care facility in which she lives.
It’s a great pastime and something virtually anyone from eight to 88+ can master.
Emma Goldman (June 27 (NS), 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She was born in Kovno in the Russian Empire (now Kaunas in Lithuania).
She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias (June 26, 1911 – September 27, 1956) was an American athlete named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female competitor.
She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field. Mildred Ella Didrikson was the sixth of seven children born in the coastal oil city of Port Arthur in southeastern Texas.
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2003), author of the best-selling book Iran Awakening, human rights activist, women and children’s advocate, mother, Muslim, and amazing woman.
She is one of Iran's best-known, and to some most-controversial, Muslim champions of democracy and human rights.