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Grave template, topped with the handle of a scythe.Church of St. Michael, Garway, England. Gravedigger with shovels, during the Siege of Sarajevo. Fossor (Latin fossorius, from the verb fodere 'to dig') is a term described in Chambers' dictionary as archaic, but can conveniently be revived to describe grave diggers in the Roman catacombs in the first three centuries of the Christian Era.
Amanda Theodosia Jones established the first all-women's company, called Women's Canning and Preserving Company; 1891 Marie Owens, born in Canada, was hired as America's first female police officer, joining the Chicago Police Department. [46] Irene Williams Coit, was the first woman passing the Yale College entrance examination. [47] 1892
Surnames in parentheses preceded by "née" indicate birth family maiden names (if known) of married women, who upon marriage generally took their husbands' surnames. Due to the low population of the Massachusetts North Shore at the time of the trials, a significant percentage of local residents were related to other local residents through ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American serial killers. It includes serial killers that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American female serial killers"
Culpeper County, Virginia, named for one of three members of the Colepeper family, of which two were women: Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper of Thoresway, a colonial governor of Virginia; his first wife Margaretta van Hesse, called Margaret, Lady Colepeper; or their daughter, Thomas's heir and only surviving issue, Catherine Colepeper.
1960: Wilma Rudolph, track and field champion, became the first American woman to win three gold medals in the Rome Olympics. [107] She elevated women's track to a major presence in the United States. As a member of the black community, she is also regarded as a civil rights and women's rights pioneer.
Because they were women's organizations, and since women were generally considered to be non-political beings, Southerners soon saw the benefit of these organizations, which were able to propagate the Lost Cause of the Confederacy without being treasonous to the US government. Women in the LMAs, according to Janney, "expand[ed] on two trends ...