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Historical assessments of Catherine the Great have not been kind. She was, indeed, a complex and contradictory personality. Inspired by Enlightenment ideals, she was nevertheless threatened by their ...

Émilie du Châtelet, a physicist and mathematician, was also the mistress of French writer Voltaire, with whom she shared an intense interest in philosophy and science. In 1740, she published ...

The correct spelling of this name is ROSANA CHOUTEAU. Rosana Chouteau was elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the Native American Osage Nation, in 1875, following the death of her uncle.

Guided tours cost $3 per student. Each group may include up to 25 students and 5 chaperones. The first 5 chaperones per group are free; the fee for additional chaperones is $5 each. Advance payment is ...

Emmy Noether was a professor of mathematics at the Mathematical Institution of Erlangen (1908–15) and at Göttingen University (1915–33), where she taught for many years without pay because she was a ...

Born into a wealthy British Catholic family, Margaret Brent emigrated to North America in 1638 and settled in Maryland colony, attracted by its policy of religious toleration. She came with a land ...

The court of Ferrara, where Olympia Morata was born, became a hotbed of evangelical Protestantism when the duke of Este married Renée of France in 1534. The new duchess of Ferrara established a “court ...

Artemisia I became the tyrant of Halicarnassus in the fifth century B.C.E. Legend states that she fought in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C.E. as a commander on the side of the Persians, who were ...

Polish neurologist Nathalie Zand was a regular contributor to Parisian medical journals. In 1930, she published the book Les plexus choroïdes: Anatomie, physiologie, pathologie in Paris.