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Spring Out of That Easy Chair and Take a Ghost Town Tour*
Odd Fellows lodge in Shedd Oregon.
Ghost towns have been defined as towns for which the reason for being no longer exists. The Willamette Valley has been known to lose towns to, you guessed it: flooding. There are approximately forty ghost towns in the valley, ranging from those that exist in name only to complete historic districts registered in the national registry of historic places. It…
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Ireland: Lady Mary Heath; Limerick's star aviatrix
Lady Mary Heath was born Sophie Mary Pierce-Evans in 1896. Within a year of Sophie's birth, her father, John, 'Jackie,' Pierce-Evans, brutally murdered her mother, Kate Doolin Pierce-Evans. After the officials claimed Sophie from the bloodied side of her
The Limerick Ireland born aviatrix, Lady Mary Heath, was the first person to fly solo from South Africa to London. It was nearly a 10,000 mile journey that took her three months. During the flight she suffered heat stroke, was fired at over Libya, and feared crashing into the Mediterranean sea as she flew over.
…More to come in No As A Challenge Word, and the women who rose to it. Release date…
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U.S. - OREGON'S Opal Whiteley; Precocious child, nature lover, famed and fizzled media darling.
In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimat
Opal Whiteley
Controversy, tales, and an investigative biography
In 1948, 51-year-old Opal Whiteley was found in a dead-end London street half starved. In her tiny basement apartment, authorities found crate after crate of books stacked upon themselves and covering every possible nook and cranny of space. It is estimated that the collection contained a total of ten to fifteen thousand books.…
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Russian: Anna Politkovskay
According to the Reporters Without Borders Freedom of the Press Index, Russia ranks 164 out of 180 countries for journalistic and media freedom. As of this writing, the United States ranks 45, and Norway is the country enjoying the freest speech in the world at number 1. The 180th position belongs to North Korea, a country that prohibits independent journalism and tightly controls all…
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The U.K. Harriet Martineau
Beginning at age 12, Harriet became hard of hearing as a consequence of childhood illnesses. The condition progressively worsened with age until she was completely deaf by adulthood. With the passing of her father in 1826, it fell to 24-year-old Harriet
Mother of Social Science
Harriet Martineau was born on June 12th, 1802, in Norwich, England. She was the sixth of Elizabeth and Thomas Martineau’s eight children. Harriet was raised in an upper-middle-class household. Her mother undertook traditional female roles and her father was a textile manufacturer with Unitarian beliefs who belonged to a prolific literary circle (book club).
Though her…
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U.S. Graciela Gil Olivarez
Hesburgh encouraged Olivarez to attend Notre Dame Law school, which she did, and in 1970, at the age of 42 and despite not having a high school diploma, Olivarez became Notre Dame's first female graduate, as well as its first Latin-American graduate.
(March 9, 1928 – September 19, 1987)
Graciela Gil grew up in a small town near Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Damian Gil Valero was an immigrant from Spain and her mother, Eloisa Solis Valero, a Mexican-American. Damian Gil Valero worked as a machinist in the copper mines in order to provide for his five children. The mining town of company-provided housing was divided into sections according to…
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U.S. Dorothea Lynde Dix
one day in 1814 she appeared on her paternal grandmother’s doorstep in Boston Massachusetts, having had enough of what biographer Francis Tiffany termed as Dorothea’s “immediate parents lacking in energetic fibre.”
(April 4, 1802 – July 17, 1887)
Dorothea (Christened Dorothy) Lynde Dix was born a pseudo-pauper, for although her paternal grandparents were well-off, her father and mother were rather underfunded. Dorothea was born to Joseph and Mary Dix on a tract of land owned by Joseph’s father, Elijah Dix, in Hampden, Maine. Her father was known for his fanatical flights of religious fervor equal only to…
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Ireland: Sinéad O'Connor
*My favorite song to listen to by O'Connor is a studio version of Foggy Dew by the the Chieftains feat. Sinéad O'Connor. There is a live version available on Youtube, however I believe the studio version best captures the range of O'Connor's Soprano
Sinéad O’Connor (1966-2023)
Protest Singer
Sinéad O’ Connor’s first album, The Lion and the Cobra, was released in November of 1987 and quickly became one of the year’s best selling debut albums. O’ Connor’s The Lion and the Cobra throws lyrical punches at a system, from the Catholic church, to political organizations, to abusive parents, which is supposed to protect the weak but instead is…
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Ireland- Kathleen Clarke
In 1922 civil war broke out between the pro-treaty and anti-treaty factions of Ireland. Many of the widows and children of the 1916 Easter Rising were arrested, for all of the widows of the rising were anti-treaty, making them bona fide enemies of a state
For hundreds of years the people of Ireland struggled under imperial rule as England’s first colony. The English left no room for the Irish to gain independence as they took control of Ireland’s land and all natural resources, and forced them to assimilate to the English language, mannerisms, customs, and laws.
During the great potato famine of the mid 19th century, it has been found by…
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Toypurina
When Jose’ spoke of banding together for a revolt, Toypurina organized six of the surrounding tribes together with the intent of killing off all those at the mission, soldiers and Padre’s alike.
Toypurina
1761-1799
Toypurina was of the Tongva Tribe near what is now known as the Los Angeles Basin area. As a young child she reveled in the native ways of her tribe, the Kumi-Vit, who had lived in the same area for hundreds of generations and knew each rock and tree that was in their midst. An exceptionally bright child, she not only learned to dance, laugh, grow food, harvest, and to…
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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Johnson Sirleaf was known for her stringent financial honesty and went to great strides to face down Doe's military dictatorship, including the beheading of his political enemies, to see to the needs of the Liberian people. After openly criticizing Doe's
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
First elected Female head of state in all of Africa,
and Nobel Peace Laureate
The country of Liberia is a republic begun in the 19th century as a land of new beginnings for freed American slaves. Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west/southwest, Sierra Leone to the north, Guinea on the northeast, and The Ivory Coast to the east, Liberia’s population of five million…
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#Ellen Johnson Sirleaf#Female African leaders#Liberian President#Nobel Peace Laureate#profiles in courage#women&039;s biography#Women&039;s history
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Mother Lü
Many starving citizens began to protest and rebel against the failing system. In year 14, Lü Mü'sson, Lu Yu, was a county constable but when he refused orders to punish the citizens for not paying their taxes, he was executed by the county magistrate for
Lü Mü 18 CE
The beginning of what scientists, scholars, and many readers in general refer to as the common era (CE) is what many laypersons and traditionalists know as AD, (Anno Domini, Latin for Year of Our Lord). It was around 14 CE or thereabouts, possibly while Jesus was teaching the elders at the temple in Jerusalem and Ovid was gaining popularity in Rome for his magnum opus, Metamorphosis,…
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Preface and Introduction to No As A Challenge Word (Maya Angelou)
Women's history didn't of its own accord become an area of study and interest. Women's history came into its own existence as women made gallant efforts to get into the mainstream history curriculum.
Preface
In all honesty, my original intention was not to write a book of profiles, certainly not a series of books. My original intention when I began this project many years ago was to create a new, long standing magazine. Yes, the glossy, brightly colored, 8.5 x 11”, side-bar sprinkled, perfect bound adorner of coffee tables and welcome distracter at grocery stores. The multi-fonted beauties…
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Micro profiles from the 2023 Globally Inspired Newsletter (now on hiatus)
Micro profiles intended to whet reader's curiosities and inspire them toward their own journey of discover.
September 15, 2023. Boudicca: the warrior queen of the the Iceni
Britain’s Celtic Queen of the Iceni tribe, Queen Boudicca, fought against the oppression of Nero’s first century Rome invasion. And nearly led her tribe to victory over the Romans.When Boudicca’s husband King Prasutagas died, he left half of his kingdom and possessions to his two daughters and half to the Roman Emperor Nero. Rome…
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The Hoover-Minthorn House
“Oregon lives in my mind for its gleaming wheat fields, its abundant fruit, its luxuriant forest vegetation, and the fish in its mountain streams. To step into its forests with their tangles of berry bushes, their ferns, their masses of wild-flowers stir
Of the 46 presidents who have steered the helm of the United States, only one has ever hailed from the Pacific Northwest.
The 31st president of the United States, Herbert Hoover, was born in West Branch, Iowa on August 10th, 1874 into modest beginnings; not so much because his family was poor, but because their beliefs honored humility. Herbert’s father, Jesse Hoover, was a blacksmith turned…
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Pakistan-Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman while she was on a school bus. She survived the attack and was flown to the United Kingdom for medical treatment and rehabilitation.
Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani education activist who gained international recognition for her advocacy of girls’ education in her home country and around the world. She was born on July 12, 1997, in Mingora, Pakistan. Malala’s activism began at a young age when she started writing a blog for the BBC Urdu under a pseudonym detailing her life during the Pakistani Taliban’s occupation of the Swat…
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Hungary-Maria Telkes
Hungarian born physicist Maria Telkes, invented many things, such as the portable desalination unit which enables the user to use solar energy remove the salt from sea water for safe drinking.
Solar energy has been a reality since the late 19th century in America. At the turn of the 20th century, the first solar powered motor in the world was being used to pump water from a deep well on an ostrich farm in California, and scientists, inventors, and creatives around the world were discussing a future of harnessing free energy from the sun. Solar energy conversations were taking place in…
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