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In early Irish folklore, the bánánach were preternatural beings, described as spectres which haunted battlefields. In Táin Bó Cuailgne, these creatures...

Jillianne Reay Code (born 1976) is a Canadian researcher and learning scientist. She is an associate professor in the faculty of Education at the University...

The Canadian School of Feminist Translation is a school of thought that originated from the works of several Canadian authors and translators. The School...

Luisa Lambertini (born 1963 in Bologna, Italy) is an Italian economist specialized in monetary and fiscal policies. She is a professor of economics at...

Jacqueline Coutras, born in 1942, is a French geographer, CNRS researcher, and pioneer of gender geography in France. Along with Jeanne Fagnani, she took...

Olga Margaret Stewart née Mounsey (1 July 1920 – 6 August 1998) was a prolific Scottish botanist and botanical artist. Olga Margaret Mounsey was born in...

Elise-Claire Dubost (1914 – likely 25 January 1945), better known as Clara Knecht or sometimes Klara Knecht, was a French Alsatian secretary and translator...

Kate Zilpah Manicom (11 March 1893 – 27 October 1937) was a British suffragette and trade unionist. Manicom was born on 11 March 1893 in the St Pancras...

Rosalie Van der Gucht (27 October 1908 – 31 October 1985) was an English theatre director and head of the speech and drama department at the University...

Nilda Maria Geerdink-Jesurun Pinto (Willemstad, December 12, 1918 - Hengelo, April 17, 1954) was a Curaçaoan writer of children's books. She was the first...

Modena Weston (also referred to by her maiden name, Modena McColl; August 3, 1816 in Albany, New York – November 25, 1898 in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi)...

Pain and Prejudice: How the Medical System Ignores Women and What We Can Do About It is a 2019 non-fiction book by Gabrielle Jackson. The book chronicles...

Margaret Vera Cobb (1884-1963) was an educational psychologist. She was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in...

(Lucy) Grace Dibble (1902-1998) was a British teacher, traveller and travel writer. She wrote as L. Grace Dibble. Lucy Grace Dibble was born on 3 October...

Lillie Sullivan (1855–1903) was an American scientific illustrator. At the time of her death, she was the best known illustrator on entomological subjects...

TDK Macassette (born September 22, 1992), whose real name is Thandeka Nompumelelo Mkhwanazi, is a South African dancer, singer, radio host and media personality...

León Chaim Lazer Weinstein (May 13, 1910 – December 28, 2011) was the oldest surviving resistance fighter of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. A member...

Rose Ellen Hendriks who became Rose Ellen Temple (fl. 1845 - 1856) was an ambitious British novelist and poet. Her history is revealed by books that describe...

Elizabeth Mary Jane Fish (22 December 1860 - 21 March 1944) was a schoolteacher and the first elected woman president of the Educational Institute of Scotland...

Margaret Cameron Cobb was a petroleum geologist. She was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931. Cobb was born...