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20 Asian American and Pacific Islander Women to Know

During May, in honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, we are recognizing and uplifting Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) ...

President Obama Names Recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...

... public or private endeavors. The awards will be presented at ... more women than men. James Taylor. As a recording and touring artist ...

Canada's Most Powerful Women, a Top 100 Award Winner for 2023

These are women who personify what it means to be powerful through the way ... And as Top 100 winners, they stand among more than 1,500 powerful leaders across ...

Honouring the world's police - Interpol

Join us, as we pay tribute to the police officers who have given their lives to protect our communities. Every minute of every day, police men and women around ...

President Biden Announces Recipients of the Presidential Medal of ...

Katie Ledecky is the most decorated female swimmer in history. An athletic prodigy, she has won seven Olympic gold medals and twenty-one world ...

Abigail Adams and Power - Lesson Plan - America in Class

... what might be done to protect women from that power. This ... Why does John Adams characterize women as the most powerful of the discontented “tribes”?

Why the name of your street is a sign of the times – and what to do ...

The two signs on Kitchener Road, one old and one new, seem a clear indication that this individual has once been honoured and is still deserving ...

Statue aims to inspire a new generation into engineering

... more than half could not name a famous engineer. According to RAEng, engineers – especially women – are almost absent from public monuments.

All Caldecott Award Winners - Abqlibrary.org

Click on the title to see if the book is available. (For a printable list of the winners and all the honor books for each year, select the checklist tab.).

Canada's Great Women

Theirs was not an easy task, for how do you define greatness? The list of thirty names the panel came up with is by no means definitive; some of ...

Women Who Dressed as Men and Made History | Headlines & Heroes

Pharaoh, pirate, soldier, spy. Most have heard of Joan of Arc, but throughout history and across cultures, there have been a great number of ...

A Woman Who Changed the World | University of Hawai'i Foundation

Fifty years before the first women walked through the doors at most Ivy League schools, Alice Augusta Ball earned a master's degree, the first woman – and ...

Celebrating 150 Years of Women in Medicine | Elizabeth Blackwell

Dr. Blackwell was not the first woman to practice medicine or to be recognized as a physician. Women have been practicing medicine, both openly and secretly, ...

Boaty McBoatface to Sir David Attenborough: Naming the Polar Ship

... public to help name a new polar research ship. The organisation said it was looking for 'inspirational' suggestions for the government-funded ship. Over ...

Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall | Medal of Honor Recipient - Army.mil

"I will always be in awe of Lt. Col. Bruce Crandall for his extraordinary bravery and brilliant flying skills under the most difficult wartime conditions ...

10 Facts You Might Not Know About Frederick Douglass, in Honor of ...

This famed abolitionist's story is even more fascinating than what many of us learn in school.

Nobel Prize awarded women - NobelPrize.org

... women 66 times between 1901 and 2024. Only one woman, Marie Curie, has been honoured twice, with the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903 and the Nobel Prize in ...

Quotes | Eisenhower Presidential Library

... name -- for the people. Now, on our side, we recognize right away ... To anyone who truly loves America, nothing could be more inspiring ...

40+ Inspiring Women's History Month Trivia Questions - KraftyLab

Artists, Authors, Activists ; Tamara De Lempicka. Frida Kahlo. Teresa Burga ; Emily Dickinson. Sylvia Plath. Elizabeth Bishop ; Ann D. Gordon.

10 Artists Who Have Stood Up For Women In Music: Taylor Swift ...

More than a decade in the making, Sabrina Carpenter is living out her superstar dreams. As she releases her new album, 'Short n' Sweet,' look back on the ...