Vida Goldstein: a snapshot biography
Vida Goldstein was arguably the most famous woman in Australia in the early 1900s. Charming and well-spoken, an ardent fighter for equality and peace, Vida beli...
Author: Historical Snapshots
Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography
Her parents were the first married couple to win a Nobel Prize. She and her husband were the second. Irène Joliot-Curie was born in Paris in 1897 to Marie and P...
Quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets...
Quote from Frida Kahlo: “I returned to school…
“I returned to school, but I felt very sore and had little strength. I took my paintings to Diego, and he liked them a lot, most of all the self-portrait....
Mary McLeod Bethune: A snapshot biography
People called Mary McLeod Bethune “The First Lady of The Struggle.” The struggle being improving life for African Americans. Born in 1875 in a small...
Snapshot of life from Atlantic City, New Jersey
A snapshot of life from Atlantic City, New Jersey, circa 1905. — “Snapshot of life from Atlantic City, New Jersey” source: Detroit Publishing Co., C...
A snapshot biography of Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells was sixteen years old when her parents and a younger brother passed away from yellow fever in 1878. As she coped with their death, Ida also challen...
Quote from Nikola Tesla
“Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading. He did not permit ...
Edith Wharton: biography of a writing pioneer
Born in New York City in 1862, Edith Wharton grew up in the comforts of a family of wealth and prestige, but as part of a high society of strict rules that encu...
Josephine Baker: beloved performer and activist
Josephine Baker was described as “The most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will.” Born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1906, Josephine exper...
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