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Jovita IdarSamuel Elmer ImesTopa IncaIshiDaniel “Chappie” James, Jr.Mae C. JemisonGish Jen Thomas L. JenningsFrederick McKinley JonesBarbara Charline JordanPercy Lavon JulianJohanna July…

Cowley, Malcolm

(Encyclopedia) Cowley, MalcolmCowley, Malcolmkouˈlē [key], 1898–1989, American critic and poet, b. Belsano, Pa., grad. Harvard, 1920. He lived abroad in the 1920s and knew many writers of the “lost…

Women's History Month

Women Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism   Women's History Month Nobel Winning Scientists Nobel Peace Prize Winners Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature Women Rulers of…

Poetry

Rodin's The Thinker was conceived as part of his Gates of Hell, representing the poet Dante in the Inferno.Poetry is arguably the oldest written art form that we have records of, dating back…

Ann Petry 1997 Deaths

Ann Petrywriter Published in 1946, Petry's novel, The Street, was the first major novel to detail the mean streets of New York. It remains a milestone in black literature. Her other novels…

Anne Sayre 1998 Deaths

Anne SayreAge: 74 short story writer and scientific detective. Her work helped establish the importance of the role of British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin in the discovery of the…

Anne Heche, 1997 News

ended speculation about the sexual orientation of her TV character in a “coming out” episode. DeGeneres had declared earlier that she, too, was gay and announced that actress Anne Heche was…

Ann Miller 2004 Deaths

Ann MillerAge: 81 athletic tap dancer who appeared in a string of films in the 1940s and 1950s, including Kiss Me Kate and On the Town. She made a splash with her 1979 comeback, Broadway's…

Anne Burford 2004 Deaths

Anne BurfordAge: 62 head of the Environmental Protection Agency under President Reagan who was a target of environmentalists who opposed her cuts to the EPA budget and her policy of giving…

Belva Ann Lockwood Biography

Belva Ann Lockwood(née Bennett)Washington, DC, lawyer and women's rights activistBorn: 10/24/1830Birthplace: Royalton, N.Y. As a young woman, Lockwood taught at a number of schools in upstate…