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niyad

(130,447 posts) Mon Dec 24, 2012, 11:54 AM Dec 2012

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today in women's herstory

December 24
This Day in Women's History

1807: Elizabeth Chandler born (abolitionist)

1847: Jane Bancroft Robinson born (Methodist educator, deaconess)

1949: "Adam's Rib" film premiere

Mother's Night (Modresnach) in Germany

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/12calendar/a/1224calendar.htm

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today in women's herstory (Original Post) niyad Dec 2012 OP

Don't forget Ava Helen Pauling's birth! Recursion Dec 2012 #1

thank you so much for sharing her with us!! niyad Dec 2012 #2

I'm big into nuclear nonproliferation, and she essentially started that Recursion Dec 2012 #3

what a wealth of information on this amazing woman. again, thank you. niyad Dec 2012 #4

Recursion

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1. Don't forget Ava Helen Pauling's birth!

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:05 PM

Dec 2012

She was awesome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Helen_Pauling

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niyad

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2. thank you so much for sharing her with us!!

Reply to Recursion (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:22 PM

Dec 2012

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Recursion

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3. I'm big into nuclear nonproliferation, and she essentially started that

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:33 PM

Dec 2012

and she also put the need for nuclear nonproliferation into a feminist perspective.

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niyad

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4. what a wealth of information on this amazing woman. again, thank you.

Reply to Recursion (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 06:07 PM

Dec 2012

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