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  • Mary Thygeson Shepardson (May 26, 1906 - March 30, 1997) was an American anthropologist who researched and published extensively on the Navajo people of...
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  • Marvel Williamson (born November 4, 1953, in Holton, Kansas) is previously the Dean of the Kramer School of Nursing at Oklahoma City University. She came...
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  • Luvenia C. Miller (September 14, 1909 – September 6, 1997) was an American biological photographer. She was the first African-American woman to serve as...
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    Ida Grace Brooks Hunt (August 7, 1878 – December 6, 1929) was an American singer and actress. Ida Grace Brooks was born in Panama, the daughter of an American...
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  • Josette Shaje a Tshiluila (born 1949) is an anthropologist and museum executive in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Tshiluila was born on 5 March...
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  • Mordecai Suchostaver (Yiddish: מרדכי סוחאסטאווער; 1790 – 29 July 1880) was a Galician adherent of the Haskalah, and teacher of philosophy at the rabbinical...
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  • Daphne Farago (March 8, 1924, Johannesburg, South Africa-July 23, 2017, Delray Beach, Florida) was an art collector and philanthropist. Her particular...
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  • Helen Eastman (1863–1953) was a botanist and author specializing in pteridophytes who wrote a beginner-level book on plant identification which included...
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  • Scithae or Skithai (Ancient Greek: Σκίθαι) was a town of Chalcidice in ancient Macedonia. It is cited in a fragment of Theopompus collected by Stephanus...
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  • Gretchen Garber Billings (1914–1999) was a journalist and advocate for cooperative causes who co-owned and -operated a newspaper called The People's Voice...
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  • Tasha Beeds is a Plains Cree, Scottish-Metis and Bajan academic. She is a Mide-Kwe and a Water Walker. She was the Ron Ianni Fellow at the University of...
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  • Ambroisine Kpongo (born 11 November 1951) is a Central African Republic diplomat who has served as the country's Permanent Representative to the United...
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  • Lourdes "Lulu" Reyes Besa was a philanthropist and social advocate born in Jaro, Iloilo. She was raised in Manila, Philippines by her parents Judge Ponciano...
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  • Nellie Elizabeth Pooler Chapman (1847–1906) was the first woman dentist in California. She was born Nellie Elizabeth Pooler on May 8, 1847, in Norridgewock...
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  • Eduard Steinmann (1894 Vaivara Parish, Virumaa – ?) was an Estonian politician. He was a member of I Riigikogu. "Juhatus ja liikmed". Riigikogu (in Estonian)...
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  • Radka Kushleva (26 July 1926 – 17 April 1984) was a Bulgarian folklore singer, performer of Rhodope folklore. Radka Kushleva was born in a family of singers...
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