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This is a list of barbers and barber surgeons. Ambroise Paré — a pioneering surgeon of 16th century France when barbers also performed surgery. [1] Hugo E. Vogel — Wisconsin assemblyman and barber for more than fifty years [2] Johanna Hedén — a midwife who became the first female barber surgeon in Sweden [3]
Alice Barber was born near Salem, New Jersey. [2] She was the eighth of nine children born to Samuel Clayton Barber and Mary Owen, who were Quakers. [3]She attended local schools until she and her family moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A barber is a person whose occupation is mainly to cut, dress, groom, style and shave hair or beards. A barber's place of work is known as a barbershop or the barber's. Barbershops have been noted places of social interaction and public discourse since at least classical antiquity. In some instances, barbershops were also public forums.
English: The Women Business Alice Barber Stephens - 1897 Brandywine River Museum - Chadds Ford, PA (United States) Painting - oil on canvas Height: 63.5 cm (25 in.), Width: 45.72 cm (18 in.)
A baker from London, Mrs. Lovett is an accomplice and business partner of Sweeney Todd, a barber and serial killer from Fleet Street. She makes meat pies from Todd’s victims. First appearing in the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls , it is debated if she was based on an actual person or not. [ 2 ]
In 1945, a parallel organization for women was also founded in Tulsa, called Sweet Adelines International (SAI). [9] Harmony, Incorporated (HI), also serving women, was established in Rhode Island in 1959. [10] In 1971, president of BHS Ralph Ribble launched the "Barberpole Cat Program" to encourage barbershop singing as widely as possible. [11]
Maycee Kaye Barber [5] (born May 18, 1998) is an American mixed martial artist. She currently competes in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). As of March 12, 2024, she is #4 in the UFC women's flyweight rankings , and as of October 22, 2024, she is #15 in the UFC women's pound-for-pound rankings .
This is a list of women artists who were born in America or whose artworks are closely associated with that country. Included are recognized American women artists, known for creating artworks that are primarily visual in nature, in traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking, ceramics as well as in more recently developed genres, such as installation art ...