July 27, 2018 in Modern Worthies Inge Ginsberg Death Metal Grandma As a Holocaust survivor, her poetry was too dark for some, but it was perfect for death metal.
July 25, 2018 in Modern Worthies Jess Wade Academic Who Writes Wikipedia Pages for Female Scientists She wrote 270 Wikipedia articles in a single year -- “I had a target for doing one a day, but sometimes I get too excited and do three.”
May 31, 2018 in Modern Worthies Esther Morris America's First Female Justice of the Peace Fifty years before women got the federal right to vote, this legal agent became “the terror of all rogues.”
Comics Alakhai Beki (c.1191-[post 1230]) Princess Who Runs the State This Mongol stood up to the most fearsome man in the world and in so doing, prevented a genocide.
May 7, 2018 in Modern Worthies Maureen Mancuso The Teen Who Shattered a Running Record Without training, this 13-year-old shattered world records for running in 1967 -- unfortunately, it happened shortly after Kathrine Switzer's headline-making Boston marathon entry, and Mancuso's feat was all but forgotten.
Comics Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh (1723-1787) The Lady Who Became a Colonel When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign.
Comics Virginia Hall (1906-1982) The Most Dangerous Spy of All This "most dangerous of all spies" staged daring mountaintop escapes, prison breaks, and railway bombings -- all on her trusty wooden leg, codenamed "Cuthbert."
March 26, 2018 in Modern Worthies Millie Veasey One of the Last of the All-Black, All-Woman WW2 Unit Part of a WW2 unit that untangled a logistics nightmare, she lived to a hundred and helped run a chapter of the NAACP.
January 3, 2018 in Modern Worthies Suzelle Poole 77-Year-Old Ballerina "Life is too short not to do what you want to do... It's never too late. So start doing what you love doing now."
December 28, 2017 Woman finishes final while in labor While this is a dystopian nightmare that should never have happened, her fortitude is still stunning.