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Название: Trailblazing Women!: Amazing Americans Who Made History
ISBN: 9781578597512
Издательство: Visible Ink Press
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Люди и страны: сведения для детей и юношества

ISBN-10: 157859751X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Вес: 0.51 кг.
Дата издания: 01.03.2021
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152 x 16
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Impressive Innovative Influential Discover and celebrate the amazing stories and achievements of 120 of Americas most inspiring women

Women have accomplished incredible things throughout American history. Theyve made and changed history. Theyve contributed revolutionary new ideas and moved science forward. Their inventions, businesses, literature, art, and activism helped build the nation. Theyve succeeded in a whole host of professions, including media, medicine, politics, government, education, sports, and the military. Trailblazing Women Amazing Americans Who Made History shines a welcome light on some of Americas most remarkable women and their enduring stories and amazing accomplishments.

This fun and fascinating read covers the long history of Americas heroic women. It brings you the biographies of some of Americas boldest and bravest. Read about obstacles they overcame and how they flourished. It covers the lasting legacies of well-known and lesser-known stars, including ...

As a young child, she sang solos and duets with her Aunt Mary at the Union Baptist Church and by the age of 6 was earning money singing at local functions throughout her hometown of Philadelphia. (Marian Anderson (1897-1993), Singer)

She made headlines when she became the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in the science of geology from the elite Baltimore research university, Johns Hopkins. (Florence Bascom (1862-1945), Geologist)

She said about the me too movement she founded: When one person says, Yeah, me, too, it gives permission for others to open up. (Tarana Burke (1973-), Civil Rights Activist)

The nations first four-star woman general has a long family history of U.S. military service--going back five generations. (Ann E. Dunwoody (1953-), Army Officer)

When this celebrated U.S. Supreme Court justice served on the high court with Justice Sandra Day OConnor as one of only two women justices, she and OConnor decided to wear special collars on decision days to carve out their visual space in a sea of black robes and ties. (Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020), Attorney, U.S. Supreme Court Justice)

She made many discoveries in physics, but the most important was identifying the magic numbers that make protons or neutrons stable within an atomic nucleus. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for her work. (Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906-1972), Physicist)

A soccer icon who was the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame, she started playing the sport at the age of two, while her family was living in Italy. (Mia Hamm (1972-), Soccer Player)

Her first name means lotus in the Sanskrit language, and her name, Devi, means goddess. (Kamala Harris (1964-), Vice President of the United States of America)

She coined the term bug to describe computer errors after she found a moth inside one of her teams computers. (Grace Hopper (1906-1992), Computer Scientist, Navy Rear Admiral)

An acclaimed architect and artist best known for designing Washington, D.C.s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Lin once said, I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. Thats art to me. (Maya Lin (1959-), Architect)

When this former first lady was growing up, she was a great athlete, but she didnt like playing competitive sports. The reason, her big brother said, was that she hated losing. (Michelle Obama (1964-), Attorney, First Lady)

A Cuban American and the first Latinx elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, she delivered a Spanish version of the Republican rebuttal to President Barack Obamas State of the Union Address in 2014. (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (1952-), Congresswoman)

This acclaimed prima ballerina was the daughter of an Osage Indian father and a white mother. The Osage people gave her the name Wa-Xthe-Thomba, meaning

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