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Dr. Elizabeth Bruyn, sitting in the back of a horse drawn ambulance. Dr. Bryun was an ambulance surgeon in New York City in the early 1900's. On her first day at work in 1910, she saved the life of an 18 month old baby who had been overcome by gas from a leak in an apartment.
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Scabbard Knife, elderly Native American Sioux man who fought in the Little Bighorn - 1936
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet noted for his children's stories.
Photo of Annie Oakley shooting over her back using a mirror to spot her target.
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Lionel Logue, age 26. Australian speech therapist responsible for the un-stammering of King George VI. Here he is with his future wife, 21-year-old Myrtle Gruenert.
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"Albert Cashier was born Jennie Irene Hodgers in 1843. In 1862, Hodgers disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry Regiment under the name Albert Cashier. The regiment was under Ulysses S. Grant and fought in over 40 battles. Cashier managed to remain undetected as the other soldiers thought she was just small and preferred to be alone. Cashier was captured in battle but managed to escape back to Union lines after overpowering a guard. She fought with the regiment t...
My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - It gives a lovely light. Edna St. Vincent Millay, "A Few Figs from Thistles", 1920 US poet (1892 - 1950)
Margaret “Molly" "The Unsinkable" Brown: philanthropist, women’s/human rights activist and survivor of the sinking of the RMS Titanic. This no-nonsense lady had to be forced into a lifeboat by three men after she kept giving up her seat for others. Once in the lifeboat she reportedly picked up an oar and gave one of the surviving engineers her coat.
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Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), American writer who spent most of her time in China. Her novel, "The Good Earth", was a best-selling fiction book in the U.S. and won the Pulitizer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe: "So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women." Amen Sister!
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Marie Curie in 1903 at the time she was awarded her Nobel prize in Chemistry
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I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.” Harriet Tubman 1820-1913 "Her courage and hope for freedom made her one of the most beautiful women known."
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Don McCullin - A US Marine takes stock during a brief pause in the fighting during the Battle for Hue, Vietnam, 1968
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BALTO Balto was the lead sled dog on the last leg of a famous, life-saving medical delivery to Nome, Alaska, in 1925. There was a serious outbreak of diphtheria in the city, and medical officials needed antitoxins to prevent the upper respiratory tract infection from spreading. The nearest doses were in Anchorage. Officials were forced to rely on dogsleds to deliver the antitoxins because the extreme cold made other modes of transport impossible. The run took seven days. By the time Balt...
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, among others, photo by Caleb Sconosciuto, from the Wikimedia Commons
Zachary Taylor. War of 1812, Black Hawk War, Second Seminole War, and Mexican-American War, Became a national hero because of his achievements in the Mexican-American War.
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Gerald R. Ford, Jr., United States Navy Lieutenant, 1945.
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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, in Rough Rider Uniform, ca 1898.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower. Supreme Commander of the Allied Invasion of Europe, primarily the Battles for Normandy, France and Germany World War II.
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Ulysses S. Grant. Graduated West Point; first Lieutenant General since Washington, appointed as four-star General of the Army in 1866.
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Sally Ride, American physicist and former NASA astronaut, the first American woman and youngest American to enter space, 1983.
In 1918 women gained President Wilson's support for their right to vote.
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