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  • Kirsten Elisabeth Alnæs (also known as Kirsten Alnaes, Kirsten Sommerfelt) (May 8, 1927 - February 4, 2021) was a Norwegian social anthropologist. Her...
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    Betsey Cook was a nurse for the Union Army during the American Civil War, serving from 1861 to 1863. Not much is known about Cook's early life, except...
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  • Esitele Fuluhea Lakalaka, also known as Estelle Lakalaka, is a women’s rights activist from Wallis and Futuna. During the 1960s Lakalaka began working...
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  • Ann Duck (c. 1717–1744) was a British criminal hanged at Tyburn in 1744. Her trials at the Old Bailey show that it was her crimes and not her race that...
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  • Theora Stephens is an American hairdresser widely credited with a 1980 patent for "a more efficient pressing and curling iron." Another source says Stephens...
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  • Giovanni Antonio Greccolini, also known as Gregolini (16 January 1675–1756) was an Italian painter of the Rococo period. He was initially a pupil of Giovanni...
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