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On September 2, 2024 - McAuliffe's 76th birthday - a statue of the astronaut was unveiled at the New Hampshire State Capitol. The statue, sculpted by artist Benjamin Victor, is the first statue of a woman on the state house grounds. Inscribed on the side of the statue's pedestal is a quote from McAuliffe: "I touch the future, I teach".
This is a list of female poets with a Wikipedia page, listed by the period in which they were born. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
This is a list of feminist poets. Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist . Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement.
Kathleen Hallisey "Kate" Rubins (born October 14, 1978) is an American microbiologist and NASA astronaut. [2] She became the 60th woman to fly in space when she launched on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS) on July 7, 2016. [3]
Carson shared a poem on Instagram on Sept. 17 along with an in-depth remembrance and photos of him with his mother, Pattie Daly Caruso, who died at 73 of a heart attack in 2017. View this post on ...
Linda Pastan (May 27, 1932 – January 30, 2023) was an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. [1] She was known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships.