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Good Morning! On this day, (Wednesday) March 18 in 1907, Verda Welcome was born. She was an American teacher, civil rights leader, and was the first Black woman to be elected to the state Senate in Maryland. #Herstory

Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin 23h ago

+ OUT NOW: Wera Sassulitsch (1849–1919) + Wer kennt sie? Mit ihrem Attentat auf den Petersburger Polizeikommandanten Trepow erlangte sie 1878 schlagartig internationale Bekanntheit. Später zählte sie zu den führenden Persönlichkeiten der russischen Sozialdemokratie, war Mitbegründerin der revolutionären Zeitung Iskra und übersetzte zentrale Texte von Marx & Engels ins Russische. Der Bruch mit der Gruppe um Lenin markierte einen Einschnitt … /1

#bookstodon #revolution #womeninhistory #herstory

David Batz(DavBatz)1d ago

Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) March 17 in 1962 Kalpana Chawla was born. She was an Indian-born American astronaut and engineer who was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She first flew on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1997 as a mission specialist. #Herstory

David Batz(DavBatz)2d ago

Good Morning! On this day, (Mon) Mar 16 in 1750, Caroline Herschel was born. She was a German astronomer, whose most significant contributions to astronomy were discoveries of several comets, including the periodic comet 35P/Herschel–Rigollet, which bears her name. #Herstory

David Batz(DavBatz)3d ago

Good Morning! On this day, (Sun) Mar 15 in 1868 Grace Chisholm Young was born. She was an English mathematician. She was educated at Girton College, Cambridge, England and continued her studies at Göttingen University in Germany, where in 1895 she received a doctorate. #Herstory

Owliphant 3d ago

#WomensHistoryMonth Day 15 - Shoshone woman Sacagawea traveled thousands of miles helping guide the Lewis and Clark expedition to the west coast.

Where in the World...was she born?

Click to find out: https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=215&type=q

#History #Herstory #Geography #NativeAmericanHistory #maps

David Batz(DavBatz)5d ago

On this day, (Friday) March 13 in 1936 Nana Meskhidze was born. She was an artist of (the republic of) Georgia. In 1957, she studied at the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts. She was an honored artist of the Georgian republic. #Herstory

David Batz(DavBatz)6d ago

Good Morning! On this day, (Thurs) March 12, in 1924 Mary Berners Lee was born. She was an English mathematician and computer scientist was on the programming team for the computer that in 1951 became the first in the world to be sold commercially: the Ferranti Mark I. #Herstory