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Women in the Wind is a 1939 film directed by John Farrow and starring Kay Francis, William Gargan and Victor Jory. The plot concerns women pilots competing in the so-called " Powder Puff Derby ", an annual transcontinental air race solely for women.
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Women in the Wind is an international, [1] all female motorcycle club [2] founded in 1979 by AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame inductee Becky Brown. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The organization seeks to unite women motorcyclists, promote a positive image of women and motorcycling and educate its members on motorcycle safety and maintenance.
The roles of women in The Lord of the Rings have often been assessed as insignificant, or important only in relation to male characters in a story about men for boys. Meanwhile, other commentators have noted the empowerment of the three major women characters, Galadriel , Éowyn , and Arwen , and provided in-depth analysis of their roles within ...
The race was the subject of the 1935 novel Women in the Wind: A Novel of the Women's National Air Derby by Francis Walton and the 1939 film adaptation, starring Kay Francis. The book The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The First All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, written by Gene Nora Jessen, was published in 2002. [28]
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The women in Springsteen's music, unlike the depiction of women in rock ‘n’ roll for decades, are multi-faceted and complex. Their role is pivotal in Springsteen's, and his fans’, worlds.
Vanessa Lynn Williams was born in Tarrytown, New York with a birth announcement that read: "Here she is: Miss America". [2] [3] She was raised in Millwood, New York. [1]A paternal great-great-grandfather was William Fields, an African-American legislator in the Tennessee House of Representatives.