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  2. Teresa (Barbie) - Wikipedia

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    According to Barbie, Teresa is a brilliant cook and one of her favorite activities is to bake muffins. [5] According to Teresa's B Friends profile, she has made 3,120 cupcakes to date; she has also rescued 36 stray animals. [6] Teresa is also said to like spending her free time reading gossip magazines about celebrities and shopping at flea ...

  3. Cupcake - Wikipedia

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    The first person to bake and ice a set of cupcakes organized and colored to represent the elements of the periodic table was Ida Freund in 1908. [30] The first woman to hold a post as a university chemistry lecturer in the UK, Freund used the cupcakes as a pedagogical tool to engage and amuse her female students at Cambridge University. [31]

  4. Gertrude Ederle - Wikipedia

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    100 m freestyle. 1924 Paris. 400 m freestyle. Gertrude Caroline Ederle (October 23, 1905 [1] – November 30, 2003) was an American competition swimmer, Olympic champion, and world record-holder in five events. On August 6, 1926, she became the first woman to swim across the English Channel. [2]

  5. List of women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    1889: Anna Bissell, first female CEO in the United States of America. [50][51] 1903: Maggie L. Walker, first African-American woman to charter a bank. [citation needed][52] 1915: Helena Rubinstein, first woman to found a cosmetics company. [53] 1945: Ruth Handler, first female president of a major toy company.

  6. List of American women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    1776. Margaret Corbin was the first woman to assume the role of soldier in the American Revolutionary War and receive a pension for it. [10] 1784. Hannah Adams was the first American woman to become a professional writer. [1] Hannah Slater was the first American woman granted a patent.

  7. Marie Curie - Wikipedia

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    Marie Curie's birthplace, 16 Freta Street, Warsaw, Poland. Maria Salomea Skłodowska-Curie [a] (Polish: [ˈmarja salɔˈmɛa skwɔˈdɔfska kʲiˈri] ⓘ; née Skłodowska; 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), known simply as Marie Curie (/ ˈ k j ʊər i / KURE-ee; [1] French: [maʁi kyʁi]), was a Polish and naturalised-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on ...

  8. Marie Ruoff Byrum - Wikipedia

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    Marie Ruoff Byrum (September 30, 1893 – January 1967) of Hannibal, Missouri, was the first woman, after the effective date of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, to vote in an election for public office under the amendment's guarantees. [1] Prior to the enactment of the 19th Amendment, suffrage for women in the United States ...

  9. List of women cookbook writers - Wikipedia

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    Stephanie Alexander (born 1940), restaurateur, cookbook writer. Margaret Fulton (1924–2019), British-born journalist, cookbook writer. Donna Hay (born 1971), popular cookbook writer, magazine editor. Tess Mallos (1933–2012), food journalist, cookbook writer, specializing in Greek and Middle Eastern cuisine. Kim McCosker, cookbook writer ...