Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863) - Today in History
Seven sentences don't seem like much. A mere 242 words-less than what Google will pick up on a search on the internet-changed a Nation. In 1863, the Civil War threatened to rip a young United States apart. The very fabric of her being was being ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Promised the Moon: The Untold Story of the First Women ...
An Interesting Story but a Misrepresentation of NASA: I am perplexed by the misrepresentation that is presented about this book by the publisher in its advertising copy. There was never a NASA program, clandestine or otherwise, to bring women into the [... more]
$15.00
Amazon.com |
Ganymede's Discovery (January 13, 1610) - Today in History
Astronomy is one of the most fascinating sciences. Many people enjoy looking up at the night sky and studying the stars and looking for anomalies such as nebulae, comets, planets, and the like. Citing constellations and watching them track across ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Sam Colt's Revolver (January 4, 1847) - Today in History
By the age of 47, Sam Colt had amassed a small fortune-approximately $15million in 1862 (equivalent to about $300million today). Not bad for a man whose initial endeavors into firearms had turned up bankrupt. Today, we hear the name "Colt" and . [... more]
Bella Online |
First Women of the Skies
First Women of the Skies [... more]
$4.95
A1 Books |
Laura Leedy Gansler
A petite single mother, Lois Jenson was among the first women hired by a northern Minnesota iron mine in 1975. In this brutal workplace, female miners were relentlessly threatened with pornographic graffiti, denigrating language, stalking, and ... [... more]
Random House |
The First Women Lawyers
This comparative study explores the lives of some of the women who first initiated challenges to male exclusivity in the legal professions in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Their challenges took place at a time of considerable [... more]
$54.00
eBooks |
The First Women in Love
The first critical edition of The First ?Women in Love?. [... more]
$65.00
Buy.com |
The First 'Women in Love' (The Cambridge Edition of the ...
Published here for the first time is the earliest completed version of the novel regarded as Lawrence's greatest: Women in Love. Lawrence wrote it in 1916 and did his best to have it published then; but his previous novel had been banned and The First [... more]
$128.24
A1 Books |
Dr. Blackwell: Medicine Woman (Jan. 23, 1849) - Today in ...
Ladies, we have all been in this situation: you have a delicate issue and you know you need to visit a doctor for said issue, but-God help you-your doctor is male. Today, we have a choice of doctors. We can call for an appointment and choose to ... [... more]
Bella Online |
How to Go on a Date with LAWCHICK in Grand Theft Auto IV
Without giving any spoilers away, LAWCHICK, aka Kiki Jenkins, is probably one of the first women you will be able to date once certain plot points come and go. Unlike some of the other potential dates, Kiki is easy to please and makes for a very ... [... more]
eHow |
For the Record: The First Women in Canadian Architecture
Women through history have had to break various gender barriers, and the world of architecture is no different: Women through history have had to break various gender barriers, and the world of architecture is no different. "For the Record: The [... more]
$28.99
Amazon.com |