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As we get older, family and friends may pass away or leave us somehow, but for many of us creativity can be our solace.
This is so great.
Inge Ginsberg: Death Metal Grandma
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Cecile DeWitt-Morette
The Academic Who Overcame it All
Cecile DeWitt-Morette was a pioneering mathematical physicist who worked with Albert Einstein, Irene Joliot-Curie, and Richard Feynman, and advocated for more women in the sciences.Fabiola Gianotti
The Millennium Physicist
The former project leader of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson has been promoted to director-general of CERN, the first woman to hold that position.Sarah Lezito
Greatest Stunt Motorcyclist Around
After watching her work, I can see why many articles refer to her as the greatest stunt cyclist around.Oksana Chusovitina
The Oldest Female Olympic Gymnast
Chusovitina will be competing in the 2016 summer Olympics--her seventh Olympics to date--at age 41, making her the oldest female Olympic gymnast ever.Souer Sourire
The Singing Nun
If you watch American Horror Story: Asylum, you may know the song Dominique. What you may not know is that it is a cover of a song from Souer Sourire, known as The Singing Nun. Sourire gave most of the money earned from the song to her religious order, who then expelled her, likely for her controversial social work and advocacy of the contraceptive pill . She lived out the rest of her life with her long-life friend and lover, Annie Pecher, before the two met a sad end. They are buried together in Belgium, where they lived. More here. (thanks to @silverlady7!)Maria Pereira
The Woman Who Can Glue the Body Together
Pereira invented a surgical glue which may eventually replace the need for sutures and the resulting chance of tearing and infection.Fernande Grudet
Madame Claude
In the 1960s she was known as the world’s most exclusive madam, whose clients were said to include John Kennedy, de Gaulle, Onassis, and multiple Rothschilds.Simone Veil
The Holocaust Survivor Who Became a French Minister
Veil, who died last week, was a fierce lawyer, a Holocaust survivor, and the first woman elected as president of the European Parliament.Andrée Geulen-Herscovici
The Teacher Who Saved Jewish Children from the Nazis
During World War II, Geulen moved Jewish children to Christian families. After the war, she used the records she had kept to reunite the children with any surviving family.Inge Ginsberg
Death Metal Grandma
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