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Our Group has a fun challenge over in the science group....
Lets see what we show em. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12286519
This is really cute. I already contributed.
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Dr. Ride applied to the astronaut program after reading an ad in a newspaper. More than 8,000 men and women applied to the space program that year. Of the 35 individuals accepted, six were women. One was Sally Ride.
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ride.html
Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement.
Carson began her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her a U.S. National Book Award,[1] recognition as a gifted writer, and financial security. Her next book, The Edge of the Sea, and the reissued version of her first book, Under the Sea Wind, were also bestsellers. That so-called sea trilogy explores the whole of ocean life from the shores to the surface to the depths.
Late in the 1950s Carson turned her attention to environmental problems she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result was Silent Spring (1962), which brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented share of the American people. It spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy, which led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and it inspired a grassroots environmental movement that led to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Carson was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.
from her wiki page...
Hillary Clinton graduated in 1969 with a degree in political science.
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works." Political science intersects with other fields; including anthropology, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, and political theory. Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics. Aristotle defined it as the study of the state. It deals extensively with the theory and practice of politics, and the analysis of political systems and political behavior. Political scientists "see themselves engaged in revealing the relationships underlying political events and conditions, and from these revelations they attempt to construct general principles about the way the world of politics works." Political science intersects with other fields; including anthropology, public policy, national politics, economics, international relations, comparative politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, and political theory. Although it was codified in the 19th century, when all the social sciences were established, political science has ancient roots; indeed, it originated almost 2,500 years ago with the works of Plato and Aristotle.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_science
Maria/Manya Sklodowska (Marie Curie)
The Sklodowski Children (left to right) Zosia, Hela, Manya (the youngest), Joseph, and Bronya
Maria (Mania) was born November 7, 1867 in Warsaw to Bronislawa and Wladyslaw Sklodowski. Her both parents were well educated. This was not long after November Uprising of 1963 in which Poles fought for the independence from the Russian tzar and Russian empire rule. Maria was the youngest from five children having one brother and three sisters. Maria's mother - Bronislawa, maiden name, Boguska, was of noble birth. Felix Boguski, her grandfather owned some land, but in order to provide for his family he had to administer the lands of richer aristocrats since their own land was not big enough. Bronislawa received a good education in a private school for women and then became a professor and later a director of the same school for girls.
Wladislaw Sklodowski, Maria's father, was also a part of minor noble family that originally owned land in a village Sklody, about a hundred km North from Warsaw. Wladislaw was the first intellectual in his family. He went to study in St. Petersburg and then came back to teach mathematics and physics in Warsaw.
Maria's mother showed the signs of tuberculosis, a deadly disease in these times, shortly after Mania was born. In order not to infect her children, her only love gesture towards Mania, her youngest daughter, was to run her fingers over Mania forehead. Mania never remembers being kissed by her mother, although this is sad, it helped to save her life. According to the doctor advice, Bronislawa was sent to Austrian Alps and later to Nice. Since Sklodowski's could not afford the nurse, Zosia, the oldest daughter accompanied her mother in these travels. In that time Wladyslaw, Maria's father took care of the younger children.
Wladislaw Sklodowski, Maria's father, was also a part of minor noble family that originally owned land in a village Sklody, about a hundred km North from Warsaw. Wladislaw was the first intellectual in his family. He went to study in St. Petersburg and then came back to teach mathematics and physics in Warsaw.
Maria's mother showed the signs of tuberculosis, a deadly disease in these times, shortly after Mania was born. In order not to infect her children, her only love gesture towards Mania, her youngest daughter, was to run her fingers over Mania forehead. Mania never remembers being kissed by her mother, although this is sad, it helped to save her life. According to the doctor advice, Bronislawa was sent to Austrian Alps and later to Nice. Since Sklodowski's could not afford the nurse, Zosia, the oldest daughter accompanied her mother in these travels. In that time Wladyslaw, Maria's father took care of the younger children.
http://www.polishsite.us/index.php/history-and-people/modern-history/476-maria-sklodowska-marie-curie-real-life.html
Or do you just not want to play with me today? 
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I dunno how I missed this when it was posted...
Anyway, I didn't see these so... Ada Lovelace, age 4
