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Famous Female Firsts
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Jeannette Rankin: First woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
Both a pacifist and a Republican, Jeannette Rankin was the only member of Congress to vote against American involvement in World War I and II. As a representative of Montana, Rankin voted against entering World War I when she was still new to the House. The press criticized her mercilessly for this vote, but she was unapologetic. As she put it, “The first time the first woman had a chance to say no against war she would say it.
Born in Missoula, Montana, in 1880, to a rancher and schoolteacher, Jeannette Rankin graduated from the University of Montana in 1902. Rankin became the first woman to be elected to Congress on Nov. 7, 1915. During her term in the House, she sponsored legislation that dealt with social reform, such as bills that granted voting rights and health services to women.
After her first term as a congresswoman ended in 1919, Rankin spent the next 20 years working as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. She played a key role in the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
In 1940, Rankin was elected to another term in Congress. After winning her seat on an isolationist platform, Rankin cast the lone “no” vote to go to war after Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. “As a woman I can’t go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else,” she said.
After her term in Congress ended, Rankin remained active in the antiwar and women’s rights movements until her death in 1973.
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It's still Women's History Month - any more names you'd care to add?
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Dear Ladies (and Gentlemen?):
There still is time to "cast your vote" for the women of influence in your life ...
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Montserrat Caballé
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Jump to: navigation , search Montserrat CaballéMaria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folc, better known as Montserrat Caballé (born April 12, 1933), is a Spanishoperaticsoprano renowned for her bel canto technique and her interpretations of the roles of Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti.
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Caballé was born in Barcelona. After studying music at the Liceu Conservatory and singing technique under Eugenia Kemmeny, she was awarded the gold medal; then she joined the Basel Opera in 1956, where she made her professional operatic debut in 1957 as Mimì in La bohème. For the 1960–61 season, she was engaged by the Bremen Opera, where she developed the foundations of her wide repertoire. In 1962 Caballé returned to Barcelona and made her debut at the Liceu, singing the title-role in Richard Strauss' Arabella.
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Caballé's international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in a semi-staged performance of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia at New York's Carnegie Hall. While she had to learn the role in less than one month, and considering this was her first engagement in a bel canto score, her performance created a sensation and made her famous throughout the opera world. The day after the New York Times quoted "Callas + Tebaldi = Caballé". Later that year, Caballé made her debut at Glyndebourne singing her first Rosenkavalier and at the Metropolitan Opera as Marguerite in Gounod's Faust. In December 1965 she also returned to Carnegie Hall for her second bel canto opera, singing the tremendous part of Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's recently rediscovered Roberto Devereux.
In 1966 she made her debut at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Trovatore (and Pirata in 1967). In 1969 she produced an astonishing performance as Elisabetta of Valois in an all-star cast (including Domingo and Cappuccilli) of Don Carlo at the Arena di Verona in a famous Jean Vilar production. Her A (La) on the final "ah" at the very end of the opera has become famous, lasting for more than 20 bars up to the final accord from the orchestra, driving mad an audience of more than 20.000. In these performances she had to act on crutches because an accident occurred earlier that year in New York City. In the same period she also appeared in one of the most remarkable recitals of her career at the Teatro Corallo, also in Verona.
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Medea murdered her children who'd been fathered by Jason. Very modern woman in that way.
I nominate Eleanor of Aquitane. She was educated and went on crusades (I think she was bored at home) with her French King husband. She understood military strategy and defied the suffacating standards of her day. Her marriage to the French King was annulled --- the King's advisors couldn't stand having an educated woman butting in on policy. Then she married the much younger and handsomer King Henry of England (he really admired her land holdings --- the Aquitane) he later banished her to a northern island castle/prison on the pretext that she had poisoned his girlfriend (well, yeah, ok she did), actually he was worried he'd be next. BUT she didn't murder her children. She'd rather have done in husband Henry so one of her boys would be king ... which I think at least 2 of them were kings .
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Boudica (Boadicea)
Britain has produced many fierce, noble warriors down the ages who have fought to keep Britain free, but there was one formidable lady in history whose name will never be forgotten - Queen Boudica or Boadicea as she is more commonly called.
At the time of the Roman conquest of southern Britain Queen Boudica ruled theIceni tribe of East Anglia alongside her husband King Prasutagus.
Boudicawas a striking looking woman. - "She was very tall, the glance of her eye most fierce; her voice harsh. A great mass of the reddest hair fell down to her hips. Her appearance was terrifying." - Definitely a lady to be noticed!
The trouble started when Prasutagus, hoping to curry favour with the Romans, made the Roman Emperor Nero co-heir with his daughters to his considerable kingdom and wealth. He hoped by this ploy, to keep his kingdom and household free from attack.
But no! Unfortunately the Roman Governor of Britain at that time was Suetonius Paulinus who had other ideas on the subject of lands and property. After Prasutagus's death his lands and household were plundered by the Roman officers and their slaves.
Not content with taking all the property and lands, Suetonius had Prasutagus' widow Boudica publicly flogged and her daughters were raped by Roman slaves!
Other Iceni chiefs suffered in a like manner and their families were treated like slaves.
Not surprisingly these outrages provoked the Iceni, Trinobantes and other tribes to rebel against the Romans.
The Britons at first had great successes. They captured the hated Roman settlement of Camulodunum (Colchester) and the Roman division there was routed, the Imperial agent fleeing to Gaul.
Boudicaand her allies gave no quarter in their victories and when Londinium (London) and Verulamium (St. Albans) were stormed, the defenders fled and the towns were sacked and burned! The revolting Britons even desecrated the Roman cemeteries, mutilating statues and breaking tombstones. Some of these mutilated statues can be seen today in Colchester Museum.
Finally Suetonius, who had made a tactical withdrawal (fled) with his troops into relative safety of the Roman military zone, decided to challenge Boudica. He assembled an army of 10,000 regulars and auxiliaries, the backbone of which was made up from the 14th Legion.
The Roman historian Tacitus in his 'Annals of Rome' gives a very vivid account of the final battle, which was fought in the Midlands of England, possibly at place called Mancetter near Nuneaton, in AD61.
Boudica and her daughters drove round in her chariot to all her tribes before the battle, exhorting them to be brave. She cried that she was descended from mighty men but she was fighting as an ordinary person for her lost freedom, her bruised body and outraged daughters. Perhaps as taunt to the men in her ranks, it is said that she asked them to consider: 'Win the battle or perish: that is what I, a woman will do; you men can live on in slavery if that's what you want.'
The Britons attacked crowding in on the Roman defensive line. The order was given and a volley of several thousand heavy Roman javelins was thrown into the advancing Britons, followed quickly by a second volley. The lightly armed Britons must have suffered massive casualties within the first minutes of the battle. The Romans moved in for the kill, attacking in tight formation, stabbing with their short swords.
The Britons now had little chance, with so many of them involved in the battle it is likely that their massed ranks worked against them by restricting their movements so they were unable to use their long swords effectively. To ensure success the Roman cavalry was released which promptly encircled the enemy and began their slaughter from the rear. Seemingly mad with blood lust, Tacitus records that 80,000 Britons; men, women and children, were killed. The Roman losses amounted to 400 dead with a slightly larger number wounded.
Boudica was not killed in the battle but took poison rather than be taken alive by the Romans.
Boudica has secured a special place of her own in British folk history remembered for her courage; The Warrior Queen who fought the might of Rome. And in a way she did get her revenge, as in 1902 a bronze statue of her riding high in her chariot, designed by Thomas Thorneycroft, was placed on the Thames embankment next to the Houses of Parliament in the old Roman capital of Britain, Londinium - The ultimate in Girl Power!
http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/England-History/Boudica.htm
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Due to these findings, Mead was one of the first people to propose that masculine and feminine characteristics reflected cultural conditioning (or socialization) not fundamental biological differences.
Cool CoCo ... thx for posting that.
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