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Margaret Vinci Heldt, Creator of the Beehive Hairdo

Margaret Vinci Heldt, Creator of the Beehive Hairdo

Remembering Laura Bullion: The Thorny Rose of the Old West

Remembering Laura Bullion: The Thorny Rose of the Old West

Retrobituaries: Fanny Crosby, America’s Greatest Hymn Writer

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Retrobituaries: Fanny Crosby, America’s Greatest Hymn Writer

Seonduk, Korea’s Forward-Looking Queen

The Sudeok temple. Culturalcorpsofkoreanbuddhism via Wikimedia // CC BY-SA 4.0

Seonduk, Korea’s Forward-Looking Queen

Michio Kushi, Natural Foods Pioneer

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Les Waas, Writer of the Mister Softee Jingle

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Alaska Davidson, First Female FBI Special Agent

FBI // Public Domain

Jesse Applegate, Who Found a Safer Route on the Oregon Trail

J. Stephen Conn via Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0

A Biophysicist Who Studied the Thermodynamics of Pizza

DC Emergence // YouTube

Margaret Fuller, Pioneering Feminist Author and Journalist

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Lois Weber, the First American Woman to Direct a Feature Film

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James Caleb Jackson, Inventor of Dry Breakfast Cereal

US National Library of Medicine via Wikipedia // Public Domain

Robert Recorde, Inventor of the Equals Sign

David Nicholls via Flickr // CC BY-NC 2.0

How the Inventor of Liquid Paper, Bette Nesmith Graham, Helped Launch MTV

Wikimedia // Public domain

Garrett Morgan, the Prolific Inventor Behind the 3-Phase Traffic Signal

Wikimedia Commons

Diogenes of Sinope, the Ancient Philosopher Who Lived in a Wine Barrel

Jean-Leon Gerome, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain