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great women in history poll. Boudica -- nm

Posted by Peglegpete (aka peglegpete) Mar 8 '23, 11:53

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Sister Rosetta Tharpe -- (link) - Remlik Mar 8, 12:55 [youtube]
Big Mama Thornton -- (link) - Max Mar 8, 12:27 [youtube]
Tina Turner. -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:27
Margaret Hamilton -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:24 5
- Never heard of her? -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:26 4
  - There's a photo of her standing next to the code she (and her team) wrote for the Apollo program. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:29 3
    - when I was a teenager, I used to hang with her daughter. - howie Mar 8, 12:36
    - *And* she terrorized Dorothy and Toto!? A women of broad talents! - TWuG Mar 8, 12:35
    - Cool -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:30
The Brontë sisters -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:24
Joan of Arc -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:23
Hedy Lamar, Emily and Charlotte Bronte -- nm - JD Mar 8, 12:22 2
- Oops -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:24
- hey! -- nm - anne Bronte Mar 8, 12:24
Amelia Earhart -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:22 5
- hee. I couldnt remember this name. I kept trying and all I kept seeing was Cate Blanchett's face. -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:23 4
  - But she was played by Hilary Swank -- nm - Roger More Mar 8, 12:27 3
    - but played by Cate in The Aviator! -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:28 2
      - Cate was Katherine Hepburn. -- nm - Reagen Mar 8, 12:29 1
        
        ohhhhhhhh damn, thats right... man my brain is misfiring all over the place this week. -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:32
Surprised neither mentioned yet: Emily Dickinson and Mother Theresa. -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:21 4
- Mother Theresa?! .. ummm -- nm - mud Mar 8, 12:22 3
  - wait. what? whats wrong with her? -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:24
  - She's the bill cosby of saintly women, eh? -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:23 1
    - Okay, not as bad as Cosby, I take that back. But still some not-cool stuff. -- (link) - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:27
Mary -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 12:20 1
- the wirgin? -- nm - mud Mar 8, 12:21
~it was always burning since the world's been turning~ -- nm - rollo Mar 8, 12:20
Angela Merkel -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:18
Abigail Adams -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:18
Jackie Kennedy -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:17
Mary Shelley -- nm - Beryllium Mar 8, 12:16
Helen Keller -- nm - Jovian Mar 8, 12:16
Trina Robbins, Marjorie Severn, Ramona Fradon. Dolly Parton, Dr. Mae Jemison, Nichelle Nichols. -- nm - Remlik Mar 8, 12:15
Marie Curie -- nm - Loyola Mar 8, 12:15
Not mentioned thus far: Ada Lovelace, Angela Merkel, Marie Curie, Jane Austen, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 12:11
Alison Lukan, the hockey analytics person on Kraken broadcasts. Previously she wrote for The Athletic about the Columbus Blue Jackets - crash davis Mar 8, 12:11 4
- If you're gonna do that, at least pick Emily Kaplan. -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 12:12 3
  - When Emily Kaplan starts working for the Kraken, I will gladly mention her. Right now she is a minor leaguer. - crash davis Mar 8, 12:15 2
    - What's a Kraken? -- nm - Halo Thoughts Mar 8, 12:22 1
      - The tectonic plates are a crackin and a seismic shift is occurring in the Pacific Division. -- (link) - crash davis Mar 8, 12:25 [youtube]
Budice-ica -- nm - budice Mar 8, 12:04
Billie Holiday, Marilyn Monroe, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks, Kate Bush -- nm - mud Mar 8, 12:01 4
- Sally Ride, Rosalind Franklin -- nm - TWuG Mar 8, 12:03 3
  - Heavy metal suicide -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 12:21 1
    - (the first thing I hear when I read Sally Ride) -- nm - ty97 Mar 8, 12:21
  - Janis Joplin, Malala Yousafzai -- nm - mud Mar 8, 12:05
Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Queen Victoria. -- nm - TWuG Mar 8, 11:55 1
- Also Catherine -- nm - TWuG Mar 8, 11:56
your mom -- nm - oblique Mar 8, 11:54

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