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December 24
This Day in Women's History
1807: Elizabeth Chandler born (abolitionist)
1847: Jane Bancroft Robinson born (Methodist educator, deaconess)
1949: "Adam's Rib" film premiere
Mother's Night (Modresnach) in Germany
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/12calendar/a/1224calendar.htm
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niyad
Dec 2012
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(56,582 posts)1. Don't forget Ava Helen Pauling's birth!
She was awesome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ava_Helen_Pauling
niyad
(113,527 posts)2. thank you so much for sharing her with us!!
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(56,582 posts)3. I'm big into nuclear nonproliferation, and she essentially started that
and she also put the need for nuclear nonproliferation into a feminist perspective.
niyad
(113,527 posts)4. what a wealth of information on this amazing woman. again, thank you.