March 7, 2017 in Modern Worthies Mary Jennings Hegar The Soldier Who Pushed To Okay Women For Combat This Purple Heart warrior (and medical evacuation pilot) filed suit against the US military policy excluding women from combat - the military recanted it shortly thereafter.
March 6, 2017 Happy 80th Birthday to the First Woman in Space Valentina Tereshkova orbited the earth 48 times in 1963, only to be reprimanded almost immediately after landing - the reason why is pretty funny though.
March 3, 2017 in Modern Worthies Mildred Dresselhaus The Queen of Carbon This physicist was the first female institute professor at MIT - by one estimate, she was author or co-author on more than 1,700 publications and articles.
Comics Soraya Tarzi (1899-1968) The Human Rights Queen of Afghanistan 1920s Afghanistan was a progressive and rapidly-modernizing country in large part to the most powerful, empathic, and maligned queen it had ever seen.
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