Radio New Zealand November 27, 2017 by Toni Bruce New Zealand women dominated the World Rugby Awards ceremony today, taking out the Team of the Year (Black Ferns), the Women’s Player of the Year (Portia Woodman) and the Women’s Sevens Player of the Year (Michaela Blyde). Woodman reflected a strong vein of Kiwi modesty in her acceptance of the award, …
Mayim Bialik- Actress, Author, Neuroscientist
Mayim Hoya Bialik is best known for her lead role as Blossom Russo in the early-1990s NBC television sitcom “Blossom” and now appears regularly on the #1 comedy in America, CBS’ “The Big Bang Theory” playing neurobiologist Amy Farrah Fowler, a role for which she has received one Screen Actors Guild nomination and four Emmy nominations. In 2014, Mayim joined …
Diversity Sails Forward: Introducing Captain Belinda Bennett, Windstar’s First Black, Female Ship’s Master.
Windstar Cruises March 29, 2016 A fitting bit of news for March – introducing Captain Belinda Bennett. In addition to being the first female and black captain in Windstar’s history, she is the first black female captain in the commercial cruise industry. An exclusive handful of women are currently making waves as captains, with the first American female captain tapped …
Lady Florence Dixie – Adventurer (1855-1905)
Spartacus Educational By John Simkin Florence Douglas, the daughter of Archibald William Douglas, 7th Marquess of Queensbury, and her twin brother, James, were born on 25th May 1855. Three years later the their father died in a shooting accident. It was widely believed that the Marquess had committed suicide. In 1862 Florence’s mother converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to …
San Diego culinary student off to New York to cook the Thanksgiving meal of a lifetime
The San Diego Union-Tribune November 21, 2018 By Michele Parente For a chef, cooking at the James Beard House in New York is considered the culinary equivalent of playing Carnegie Hall, while Thanksgiving dinner is called the Super Bowl of meals. So how is it that 20-year-old San Diego culinary student Rebekah Suarez — who is one of just six students from …
Nellie Bly – Journalist (1864–1922)
Nellie Bly was known for her pioneering journalism, including her 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world. (mental health)
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