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A young woman in the advanced stages of rheumatoid arthritis was brought to the altar by friends just as McPherson preached "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever". McPherson laid her hands upon the woman's head, and the woman was able to leave the church that night without crutches. [82]
Female biography was identified and named by Mary Hays (1759–1843) as a discrete empirical category of knowledge production and analysis while researching figures for the first Enlightenment prosopography of women, Female Biography; Or, memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of all Ages and Countries (R. Phillips, 1803) in six volumes.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. African-American woman (1920–1951), source of HeLa immortal cell line "Lacks" redirects here. For other uses, see Lack. Henrietta Lacks Lacks c. 1945–1951. Born Loretta Pleasant (1920-08-01) August 1, 1920 Roanoke, Virginia, U.S. Died October 4, 1951 (1951-10-04) (aged 31) Baltimore ...
The legislature awarded her 34 pounds plus interest back to her 1783 discharge. A biography by Herman Mann was published in 1797, The Female Review: Life of Deborah Sampson, the Female Soldier in the War of Revolution. [18] In 1802, Sampson began giving lectures about her wartime service. After extolling the virtues of traditional gender roles ...
Martha Moore Ballard (February 20, 1735 – May 7, 1812) was an American midwife, healer, and diarist.Unusual for the time, Ballard kept a diary with thousands of entries over nearly three decades, which has provided historians with invaluable insight into colonial frontier-women's lives.
Birth certificate of Jeanne Calment. Calment was born on 21 February 1875 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence. [1] Some of her close family members also had an above-average lifespan as her older brother, François (1865–1962), lived to the age of 97, her father, Nicolas (1837–1931), who was a shipbuilder, 93, and her mother, Marguerite Gilles (1838–1924), who was from a family of ...
Lise Meitner (/ ˈ l iː z ə ˈ m aɪ t n ər / LEE-zə MYTE-nər, German: [ˈliːzə ˈmaɪtnɐ] ⓘ; born Elise Meitner, 7 November 1878 – 27 October 1968) was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discovery of nuclear fission and of protactinium.
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