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Aesop's Fables: The Old Woman and the Doctor

by Aesop The Spendthrift and the SwallowThe Moon and her MotherThe Old Woman and the Doctor An Old Woman became almost totally blind from a disease of the eyes, and, after consulting a…

Women's Suffrage: Woman suffrage and politics

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Woman suffrage and politicsThis book is dedicated on behalf of the women who have gone before to the women who come after.ContentsWhy the Book…

Woman's Christian Temperance Union

(Encyclopedia) Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), organization that seeks to upgrade moral life, especially through abstinence from alcohol. The National WCTU of the United States was founded…

mammography

(Encyclopedia) mammography, diagnostic procedure that uses low-dose X rays to detect abnormalities in the breasts. Tomosynthesis, also known as 3D mammography, is form of mammography that combines X-…

Hughes, Langston

(Encyclopedia) Hughes, Langston (James Langston Hughes), 1902–67, American poet and central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, b. Joplin, Mo., grad. Lincoln Univ., 1929. He worked at a variety of jobs…

Shaw, Anna Howard

(Encyclopedia) Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847–1919, American woman-suffrage leader, b. England. She emigrated (1851) to the United States in early childhood and grew up on a farm in Michigan. She received a…