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Audrey Hepburn: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 16, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Audrey Hepburn was a star amongst the stars. An icon of film and fashion and a humanitarian who dedicated herself to helping those in need. Born in Brussels, Be...

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Actress Anna May Wong: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 9, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Born in Los Angeles in 1905 as Wong Liu-Tsong, she would become an actress, known to the world as Anna May Wong. Anna May fell in love with movies at a young ag...

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Inman E. Page: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 8, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Inman E. Page escaped enslavement with his family when he was ten years old. Fourteen years later, in 1877, Inman, who had become known as an eloquent orator, w...

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Vida Goldstein: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Irène Joliot-Curie: a snapshot biography

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Mary McLeod Bethune: A snapshot biography

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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A snapshot biography of Ida B. Wells

Posted on November 26, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Edith Wharton: biography of a writing pioneer

Posted on November 25, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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...

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Josephine Baker: beloved performer and activist

Posted on November 22, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

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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A snapshot biography of Claude Monet

Posted on November 19, 2021 by Historical Snapshots

Claude Monet loved art from a young age. While classmates were doing classwork, he was filling his workbooks with drawings. His father, however, wanted Claude t...

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