SCIENCE
This English scientist studied chimpanzees in the field for decades. Her discovery that chimpanzees make and use tools led to scientists redefining what it meant to be human. Prior to her discovery, using and making tools was a benchmark for categorizing our early ancestors as "human".
Who is Dr. Jane Goodall?
Goodall earned a PhD in ethology at Cambridge University, where she was one of the few to do so without first earning a bachelor's degree. She also stunned her fellow anthropologists and ethologists with the finding that chimps lived complex emotional lives within highly sophisticated social structures.
She authored the novel "Frankenstein."
Who is Mary Shelley?
First woman Vice President of the United States of America.
Who is Kamala Harris?
Peasant girl who led the French Army in a momentous victory at Orleans that repulsed the English attempt to conquer France during the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc.
Joan believed she was acting under divine guidance when she took up arms. Later she was captured and burned at the stake for heresy by the English and their French collaborators.
Born in 1918, this mathematician was an essential part of the team that calculated the trajectory for the first manned mission to the moon in 1969. She co-wrote the first textbook about space travel and was the 1997 Mathematician of the Year.
Who is Katherine Johnson?
The inspiration for Dracula and possibly the world's worst serial killer. She bathed in the blood of least 650 servant girls that she tortured and killed.
Who is Countess Elizabeth Bathory?
First-ever National Youth Poet Laureate and the youngest inaugural poet in U.S. history.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
Gorman's work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization. She most famously delivered the poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of President Biden.
In fifth century legend, this daughter took the place of her father when he was called to battle. She rose in the ranks and led her army to victory over 12 years and returned home with no one knowing she was a young woman.
Who is Mulan?
The only person to win two Nobel Prizes in two scientific fields.
Who is Dr. Marie Curie?
She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice. She was the first woman to become a professor at the University of Paris in 1906. She founded the Curie Institute in Paris, and the Curie Institute in Warsaw; both remain major centers of medical research today. During World War I she developed mobile radiography units to provide X-ray services to field hospitals.
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Civil rights activist and lighting rod who refused to give up her seat in a crowded bus in 1955 in defiance of Jim Crow law.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Parks spent a night in jail, but her brave act showed that it was possible to stand up to injustice. Her defiance became a seminal moment in the civil rights movement.
She was the first female leader in the modern Middle East and was head of state and led one of the most decisive victories in military history, defeating her enemies in 6 days.
Who is Golda Meir?
The person who did the actual research responsible for the discovery of DNA's double helix structure. Male colleagues, Drs Watson and Crick, snuck a peek at her work and published her findings in their seminal work for which Watson and Crick received a Nobel Prize without ever giving her any credit.
Who is Dr. Rosalind Franklin?
Although Franklin's leading role in the DNA discovery was eventually acknowledged even by Watson and Crick, she died of ovarian cancer at the age of 37 in 1958 and Nobel prizes are not awarded posthumously.
An American supernatural horror legal drama based on Anneliese Michel, a German woman with grand mal epileptic psychosis who died after being subjected to 67 exorcism rights by her priest and her father.
What is the The Exorcism of Emily Rose?
The youngest Nobel Peace Prize laureate who survived an assassination attempt at 15. She is known for her advocacy of children's rights and girls' education.
Who is Malala Yousafsai?
She led 19 missions into the South to bring slaves North to freedom. She wore a pistol on her hip and threatened to shoot anyone who got cold feet once the rescue was initiated.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Tubman freed 70 slaves from Maryland and 50-60 more slaves escape to Canada.
She received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 and was the first woman to win the prize unshared for her discovery of transposons or "gene jumping" using corn as her research model.
Who is Dr Barbara McClintock?
Between 1948 and 1953, McClintock developed the theory of gene regulations based on transposons, which explained how complex organisms made of cells with identical genomes have so many different cells with different functions. Her work was complex, ground breaking, and was not immediately understood. In 1953 McClintock stopped publishing because she was afraid that she might get alienated from the scientific mainstream as a crack pot.
The importance of her work was not recognized/taken seriously until a decade later, when 2 (male) French scientists In 1960, described the discovery of genetic regulation via a "mobile genetic element" in E. coli - the lac operon.
In Sanskrit her name means “She Who Is Black” or “She Who Is Death”.
She is often portrayed with four or ten arms, black or blue body, a lolling tongue, wearing a skirt made of human arms and a garland of human heads.
Who is Kali?
In spite of her seemingly frightening form, Kali is regarded by devotees as the divine protector and Mother of the Universe.
This famous writer became the voice of the civil rights movement and all people fighting for justice for African Americans. In 2010, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S.
Who is Maya Angelou.
When she was a little girl, she didn't speak for 5 years because she thought her words could hurt people. She eventually found her voice and became so good at memorizing words that when she started to write it was like music flowing from her pen.
Warrior queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, she led an uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire massacring an army of 70,000 in an initial battle.
Who is Boudicca?
Before entering politics, this world leader was a food scientist developing soft serve ice cream. Her family took in a Jewish refugee during the holocaust. There is an annual holiday celebrated in the Falkland Islands in her honor.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold that office.