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Sozialistischer Schutzbund ('Socialist Protection League', abbreviated SSB) was a paramilitary formation in Saar, linked to the Social Democratic Party...

Ivy Lilian McClelland (18 May 1908 – 2 April 2006) was a British Hispanist at the University of Glasgow. McClelland was born in Liverpool in 1908. She...

Gloria Neustadt Biggs (1911-2001) was an American publisher. By being named publisher of the Space Coast newspaper The Melbourne Times in 1973, she became...

Mary von Bothmer (1842–1901; aged 58; also known as the Countess von Bothmer) was an English-German writer and aristocrat. She published six books during...

Kidase (Ge'ez: ቅዳሴ, means "thanksgiving to the Lord") is an Orthodox Tewahedo daily worship service originated by the sixth century Aksumite composer Saint...

Rev. Hibbert Newton D.D. (1817 – 1892) was a poet and an early proponent of British Israelism. Hibbert Newton was educated at Trinity College, Dublin obtaining...

Mary Cosgrave (c. 1877 – 17 November 1941) was an Irish social worker and local politician. Mary Cosgrave was born Mary Josephine Daly in Naas, County...

Eureaioi (Ancient Greek: Εὐρεαῖοι) (or Eurea [Εὒρεα]; perhaps even Eureai [Εὐρεαῖ]) is the assumed name of a "possible" ancient Greek city-state of Magnesia...

Shoshana Gershonowitz (Hebrew: שושנה גרשונוביץ; 1906–1986) was an Israel Defense Forces officer who served as commander of the Women's Corps from 1952...

Abraham of Lerida was a Jewish physician, surgeon and astrologer. On September 12, 1468, he couched a cataract in the right eye of King John II of Aragon...

Julia Shepard Perkins (1799–1884) was an American writer and educator. She was the author of Early Times on the Susquehanna (1870), a history of the Susquehanna...

Julia Carta (1561-fl. 1605) was an Italian folk healer. She was active as a cunning woman. She was prosecuted by the Spanish Inquisition on Sardinia for...

Evangeline Heartz was a state representative in Colorado. She represented Denver. She was first elected to the state house in 1896. She was a Populist...

Monica Buonfiglio is a Brazilian writer. She has written more than 60 books, which have been published in Brazil and abroad. Many of Buonfiglio's books...

Mehtap Oezaslan is a full professor for technical electrocatalysis at TU Braunschweig. Oezaslan studied Chemistry at TU Berlin and finished her diploma...

Saint Amunia of San Millán was a Benedictine hermit, from what is currently the La Rioja province in Northern Spain. She became a hermit after the death...

Carrie Jane Sutton Brooks (January 15, 1899 – January 12, 1964) was a pioneering African-American woman medical doctor who trained as a surgeon at Howard...

Elisabetha Grossmann (1795 - 1858), was a Swiss skipper. She ferried tourists over the Lake Brienz in the early 19th-century and became herself a famous...

Moses of Worms was a legendary rabbi of the eleventh century, reputed to have been the greatest magician and necromancer of his time. There is a legend...

She'eh Ne'esar (Hebrew: שְׁעֵה נֶאֱסַר) is a pizmon (responsory hymn) in the Seliḥot of the fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz. It is signed with the acrostic...