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Brilliant.org is an American for-profit company and associated community that features 70+ guided courses [2] across the site. It operates via a freemium business model. [ 3 ] Brilliant was founded in 2012. [ 3 ]
Originally from South Korea, Khim immigrated with her family to the United States when she was a baby.She grew up in Chicago and attended public schools. After studying mathematics for 3 years, Khim left the University of Chicago to start her own company, Alltuition, which sought to simplify the process of obtaining financial aid for students. [4]
Based on what she learned, in 2016, she founded Think Equal to promote early childhood development, and has dedicated her life to ensuring every child around the world has access to foundational ...
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Iceland (2009–2013): As prime minister, she was the world's first openly lesbian world leader, first female world leader to wed a same-sex partner while in office. Elizabeth II , United Kingdom (1952–2022): In 2015, she became the longest-reigning queen regnant and female head of state in world history.
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
A year later, Kitty returned to college to study biology at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1939, she married Richard Harrison, a British doctor, and began pursuing graduate work in botany at UCLA.
Judy Murray – Tennis Handbook, by Nick Bollettieri “When I started out in coaching in the late 1980s, there was nobody to learn from in Scotland.
Women inventors have been historically rare in some geographic regions. For example, in the UK, only 33 of 4090 patents (less than 1%) issued between 1617 and 1816 named a female inventor. [1] In the US, in 1954, only 1.5% of patents named a woman, compared with 10.9% in 2002. [1]