Famous Women You've Never Heard Of

[Marv]

*BREATHING QUICKENS* WOWSER!!

[Cail]

Thank you!

[Alynna Lis Eachann]

Mata Hari, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Judith A. Resnik, Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark. I admit to not having heard of the last two until I looked up which women had died on the Columbia's last mission. And if you live in the US and haven't heard of Judtih Resnik or S. Christa McAuliffe, shame on you!

[taraswizard]

Rosalind Franklin, organic crystallographer, the samples of DNA she prepared and her initial crystallogphic findings were essentially critical for the Watson and Crick structure. At the James Watson was working with Francis Crick, she was a collegue of Maurice Wilkins at University of London.

[lucimay]

excellent posts folks!

and speaking of Jane Addams...



Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889. She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.


www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/adda-jan.htm

[Rincewind]

There are so many more famous men to pick from. Most things that have been done have been done by men (except those "first woman to..." things, they don't count though)

I'm with Nathan, and proud of it

[Rincewind]

Gauge (also known as Paige or Gage; born July 24, 1980 in Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA) is a pornstar. She first entered the adult movie industry at the age of nineteen. Her first official porn shoot was with Ed Powers and with her ex-boyfriend Mojo in More Dirty Debutantes #129. Then she went on to do her first threesome movie with Ed Powers in More Dirty Debutantes #137.

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As with other female porn-stars, like Taylor Rain, Aurora Snow, Jenna Haze and Allie Sin, Gauge is well-known for her anal scenes, blowjobs, facial, creampies, double penetration, double anal, and ass-to-mouth. It is claimed that what really sets her apart from other anal stars is her "handstand ass fuck" where she receives anal intercourse upside down while standing on her hands.

Despite her height and small overall size, she is very curvaceous and very well proportioned. She is also "one hundred percent natural", meaning that she has not undergone any breast enhancement surgery.

She has a tattoo of a large sun with M (referring to her ex-boyfriend Mojo) in center on small of back, one on the top of her right foot, and one on the back of neck. As of 2005, she is semi-retired from the adult film industry and is dancing back in her home state of Arkansas.

[lucimay]

thanks so much for that. where would we be today without our porn stars, those valiant women!

[Rincewind]

Well, i think the Preteen suicide rate would skyrocket, for one thing...

[lucimay]

[The Laughing Man]

gee, that's rather filthy and inappropriate? besides, Lucimay is my favorite pornstar MILF! (M is for Moderator )

[sgt.null]

my law teacher in hs the year she wa accepted by Nasa. she took our class through each part of the process.

Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986)



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Sharon Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to fly in space. Selected from among more than 11,000 applicants from the education profession for entrance into the astronaut ranks, McAuliffe had been born on September 2, 1948, the oldest child of Edward and Grace Corrigan. Her father was at that time completing his sophomore year at Boston College, but not long thereafter he took a job as an assistant comptroller in a Boston department store and the family moved to the Boston suburb of Framingham. As a youth she registered excitement over the Apollo moon landing program, and wrote years later on her astronaut application form that "I watched the Space Age being born and I would like to participate."


McAuliffe attended Framingham State College in her hometown, graduating in 1970. A few weeks later she married her longstanding boyfriend, Steven McAuliffe, and they moved to the Washington, DC, metropolitan area so Steven could attend Georgetown Law School. She took a job teaching in the secondary schools, specializing in American history and social studies. They stayed in the Washington area for the next eight years, she teaching and completing an M.A. from Bowie State University, in Maryland. They moved to Concord, New Hampshire, in 1978 when Steven accepted a job as an assistant to the state attorney general. Christa took a teaching post at Concord High School in 1982, and in 1984 learned about NASA's efforts to locate an educator to fly on the Shuttle. The intent was to find a gifted teacher who could communicate with students from space.


NASA selected McAuliffe for this position in the summer of 1984 and in the fall she took a year-long leave of absence from teaching, during which time NASA would pay her salary, and trained for an early 1986 Shuttle mission. She had an immediate rapport with the media, and the teacher in space program received tremendous popular attention as a result. It is in part because of the excitement over McAuliffe's presence on the Challenger that the accident had such a significant impact on the nation.

[Brinn]

I wanted to contribute to this thread but when I tried to think of some famous women that I had never heard of, I quickly realized that I'd never heard of any! Oh well, does effort count?!?!?

[Reisheiruhime]

gee, that's rather filthy and inappropriate?

You're one to talk, Mr. Playgirl.

I had to to a report on "Women of the Civil War", and guess who I was assigned? Clara Barton. SHE was a Union Army Nurse supervisor and the one who started the American Red Cross in 1881, and she also helped identify the 13,000 unknown dead at the Andersonville prisoner-of-war camp.

It's sad how it takes a war to make poeple realize that everyone has something they're good at, besides screwing and ironing shirts.

[lucimay]

good post Turiya!!!

you're absolutely correct...the U.S. goes to war and *presto*! women go to WORK!!! twas ever thus!


here's another great one from that era...

Ida B Wells, writer and civil rights activist

A militant, one-woman, anti-lynching crusade, Ida B. Wells endured death threats, the destruction of her business, and a hostile legal system as she fought for justice for African Americans.

Ida B. Wells' career as an activist began in 1884. Just twenty-two, she sued the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad for failing to provide separate but equal facilities for blacks, winning an initial award of $500 that was later overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court.

After gaining prominence as a writer for black church newspapers, Wells took part ownership in a Memphis paper, the "Free Speech and Headlight," in 1889. Under her leadership, the "Free Speech" prospered, delivering an equal rights message to blacks throughout the Mississippi delta.

In 1891 whites in Memphis lynched three black grocery operators, all of whom were Wells' friends. When the "Free Speech" responded by encouraging blacks to boycott white-owned businesses or abandon Memphis altogether, angry whites destroyed the paper's offices and threatened to murder anyone who attempted to resume publication.

Wells retreated to New York, where as part owner of the "New York Age," she continued her crusade. She lectured across the North and in venues as distant as Britain, where her compelling speeches fomented anti-lynching sentiment.

After moving to Chicago, Wells married attorney Ferdinand Lee Barnett, owner of the black newspaper, "The Conservator." She published the first compilations of lynching statistics and risked her life to report firsthand from scenes of racial violence. Wells supported many other political causes as well, founding a community house in Chicago's poorest neighborhood and forming the Alpha Suffrage Group, the first such organization for black women. She died in 1931 at the age of 69.

a letter to Ida from Frederick Douglass!!!

HON. FRED. DOUGLASS'S LETTER

Dear Miss Wells:

Let me give you thanks for your faithful paper on the lynch abomination now generally practiced against colored people in the South. There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison. You give us what you know and testify from actual knowledge. You have dealt with the facts with cool, painstaking fidelity and left those naked and uncontradicted facts to speak for themselves.

Brave woman! you have done your people and mine a service which can neither be weighed nor measured. If American conscience were only half alive, if the American church and clergy were only half christianized, if American moral sensibility were not hardened by persistent infliction of outrage and crime against colored people, a scream of horror, shame and indignation would rise to Heaven wherever your pamphlet shall be read.

But alas! even crime has power to reproduce itself and create conditions favorable to its own existence. It sometimes seems we are deserted by earth and Heaven yet we must still think, speak and work, and trust in the power of a merciful God for final deliverance.

Very truly and gratefully yours,
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Cedar Hill, Anacostia, D.C., Oct. 25, 1892

[sgt.null]

• Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science
• Healer and pioneer of a reliable, widely practiced system of prayer-based healing
• Author of a groundbreaking book on spirituality and healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, which has sold over 10 million copies to date
• President and founder of a teaching college, the Massachusetts Metaphysical College, which continues to prepare teachers of Christian Science
• Founder of a publishing house whose products include numerous books, weekly and monthly magazines, a foreign language magazine, and a Bible daily self-study guide
• Founder and publisher of a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor
• Leader of a worldwide church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and its branches in 80 countries


www.tfccs.com/marybakereddy

[Marv]

Rincey said

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Gauge is well-known for her anal scenes, blowjobs, facial, creampies, double penetration, double anal, and ass-to-mouth. It is claimed that what really sets her apart from other anal stars is her "handstand ass ****" where she receives anal intercourse upside down while standing on her hands.

i hate to bring this post back to everyone's conciousness but i cant help but wonder why there was a need to asterix out the one swear word in the context of the post!!

my mother deserves a mention. while she failed to raise a well-rounded son(it wasn't her fault-it was mine) she did a good job with my brother and sis. and she cooks a mean lasagne.

[Avatar]

The astersiking for that particular word is automatic, built in filter.

Not exactly an appropriate post though RinceWind.

--A

[sgt.null]

New Hampshire's first woman lawyer, Marilla Ricker was certified to try cases in front of the US Supreme Court and even ran for state governor, but she was still unable to vote. Across America, the suffragist movement followed close behind the abolitionist movement. Women like Ricker worked tirelessly to gain the voting rights, and Ricker was reportedly the first woman in NH to attempt to register to vote. A property owner in Dover, NH, Ricker believed that, if she paid property taxes, she should be able to vote. She would go on registering, and being denied the vote until 1920, when just months before her death -- she voted legally in the United States for the first time. Born in New Durham, NH, Ricker was known especially for her work in prison reform and for her religious writings. Ricker was distinct as a lawuer in her time -- and in any other -- becuase she worked for her clients for free.

seacoastnh.com/Famous_People/Link_Free_or_Die/Marilla_Ricker/

[Loric]

I posted this earlier last week but it seems to have gotten lost due to the recent hack attack. This is the elder Agrippina.



She was the wife of Germanicus Caesar, mother of Caius Caesar(Caligula), the sister in law of Claudius Caesar, the mother of the younger Agrippina (whom married her uncle Claudius) and the grandmother of Nero Caesar. The story of Agrippina and her husband Germanicus is the greatest tragedy that Shakespeare never wrote and can be found in the writings of Tacitus.


(mmmm - whatta babe!)