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Jennifer Figge (born November 12, 1952 [1]) is an American athlete from Aspen, Colorado, who in 2009 attempted to swim several portions of the Atlantic from Africa to South America, starting on January 12, 2009, at the Cape Verde Islands, and ending in North America in Trinidad and Tobago on February 5. Newspaper accounts reported she covered a ...
Clare Mary Francis MBE (born 17 April 1946) is a British novelist who in her first career as a yachtswoman has twice sailed across the Atlantic on her own. She was the first woman to captain a successful boat on the Whitbread Around the World race .
Isabel Benham was the first female partner in R.W. Pressprich & Co.'s 55-year history, which also made her the first female partner at any Wall Street bond house. [150] [151] 1964 Alice K. Kurashige became the first Japanese-American woman commissioned in the United States Marine Corps. [152] [153] [154] 1965
From "Hidden Figures" to "On the Basis of Sex," these films teach about some amazing trailblazers like Katherine Johnson, RBG and Madam C.J. Walker. International Women's Day: Movies that # ...
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder.It is loosely based on the 2016 non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about three female African-American mathematicians: Katherine Goble Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer), and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe), who worked ...
After her flight, she embarked on a series of lucrative speaking engagements and was given a movie contract. She starred in Moran of the Marines (1928) and The Winged Horseman (1929). [7] In 1929 she entered the first Women's Air Derby, flying in her Swallow, NC8730, and placed fifth. [1] She married six times.
The women of Oppenheimer are portrayed mostly as collateral damage, rather than what they were: an instrumental part of the story. Tatlock – the supposed inspiration for Trinity, herself ...
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