First Woman on Cover of Business Week
Brownie Wise made her name using home parties to sell Tupperware. She was not the inventor of the home party sales method, but she was a master at it. This […]
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National Park Week Celebration Continues: The Movies 100 Years Ago
Most of us love going to the movies. Whether we are there to be entertained, enlightened, or to be exposed to other worlds, we love sitting in the darkened theater to “be told a new story.”
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Friday the Thirteenth in America
How did Friday the 13th become a day surrounded by superstition? In checking into the background of it, I was surprised to learn that Friday itself has long been viewed
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Jane Addams (1860-1935), Advocate for the Poor and Activist for Peace
Jane Addams was born in 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. Her father was a prosperous businessman who served in the Civil War and was a state senator for sixteen years. Her mother died when Jane was young; when her father remarried, the family expanded to contain nine children.
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Barbara McClintock (1902-1992), Pioneering Scientist and Nobel Winner
• Third woman elected to the National Academy of Science (1944) • First woman president of the Genetics Society of America (1945) • Received the National Medal of Science (1971)
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Helena Rubinstein (1870-1965), Extraordinarily Successful Businesswoman
- Created a product that launched in international empire
Helena Rubinstein was the eldest of eight daughters born to a store owner and his wife in Kraków, Poland.
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