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Voie was hired at a steel making plant in 1978 in the drafting department. In 1979 she was transferred to the traffic department. She would bring the items needed to make steel to the plants and was in charge of hiring, firing, and managing the truck drivers.
Voie owned a fleet of trucks. She was also a traffic consultant for many years.
Then she worked for Schneider Inc. Voie recruited people who were not usually truck drivers to become drivers. She tried to get women and non-white people to be truck drivers.
In 2000, Voie became the executive director of Trucker Buddy International Inc. She helped truckers and students write letters to each other and learn more about each other's lives.
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Pilar Agoyo
Pilar Agoyo is a native fashion designer. She works on costumes for movies and television shows. She has done work for The Avengers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Her design also appeared in an exhibit called "Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the "The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts". The book "Native fashion now : North American Indian style" calls Agoyo a "Provocateur," meaning she has new ideas people do not expect and that make them have strong feelings.
She is from Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Agoyo originally wanted to be a painter. She went to the Institute of American Indian Arts. She took a class and realized she loved sewing and textiles. She loved it.
Agoyo has done a lot of work for Hollywood television and movies. She is also well known among indigenous designers in the United States.
In 2002, Agoyo opened a boutique in Santa Fe with Virgil Ortiz and Cody Sanderson. Sanderson was her husband.
Agoyo works with materials such as vinyl. May of her designs are inspired by traditional pottery designs from her pueblo. Agoyo has worked on lots of fashion shows. She also has museum exhibits, like the Art of Indigenous Fashion" at the "The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts".
She has won awards for her designs, including the "Masked Heroes" contest from First American Art Magazine and at the Heard Indian Market 2011 by the Southwestern Association for American Indian Arts. The Poeh Pueblo Cultural Center also commissioned Agoyo to design masks that would appeal to others from her pueblo. Her work has been recognized by the "Traditional Fine Arts Organization."
Agoyo's first work for television was "Into the West" in 2005. She has worked on 37 movies and shows. Sometimes the fashions she makes for movies helps her think of a new fashion to create.
Naoko Wowsugi
Wowsugi brings people together with collective hands on art projects that give back to their community.
Wowsugi moved to Minneapolis, MN, USA. She began doing haircuts as performance art. She used the cut hair in her "A Hairy Tale" exjhibit.
She was a professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. She now teaches at American University.
Wowsugi won theThe Outwin portrait award in 2016. Her work, "Thank Your for Teaching Me English," is many portraits of people who taught her a word in English. She painted their picture and recorded them saying the word. 2016": American Portraiture Today ("Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery)
Wowsugi was an Artist-in-Residence at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in 2017.
Danni Washington
Washington grew up in Miami, Florida. Her family is from Jamaica. She loved the ocean since she was six years old. She graduated from the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science in 2008. She was the only woman of color in her academic department at college.
When she was twenty-one she co-founded the nonprofit organization Big Blue and You with her mother. Big Blue and You is a group that inspires young people to care about ocean conservation. Washington help children learn about the ocean by helping them make art from recycled materials. Washington started the organization after she won the "Follow Your Heart Tour" award. She won US $10,000. She used the prize money to start the Art Sea Festival. The Art Sea Festival allows children to talk to scientists and artists who care about the ocean.
Washington co-hosted the series "Science the $#*! Out of It" with comedian Krystyna Hutchinson on Facebook Watch. In the series, they answered questions from the internet.
Washington wants women, non-binary people, and people of color to get excited about science. She wants them to understand they can be scientists. That is why she is on many television shows. She also started the podcast 21st Century Mermaids. That podcast features women and non-binary ocean conservationists.
Washington won the "Follow Your Heart Tour" prize from ROXY. She also won a "TogetherGreen" fellowship from the National Audobon Society and Toyota. Washington used the TogetherGreen Fellowship to teach 15 students filmmaking. They will make public service announcements about conserving water. Washington was also named one of TheGrio's 100 in 2012.
Nguyen went to Nashua Community College and took a business class.
Catherine Edeh
Catherine Edeh is Nigeria's first deaf female lawyer. She is an activist for disability rights. Edeh is the first deaf female lawyer in Nigeria. Edeh started the Voice of Disability Initiative (VDI). She is the founder and Executive Director. She went to Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, University of Ilorin, and University of Minnesota.
Edeh was born in Enugu, Nigeria. She became deaf when she was five. Her parents wanted her to quit school and learn to be a seamstress or hairdresser. Edeh wanted to stay in school. She braided people's hair to save up money to go to college. She went to Federal College of Education (Special), Oyo, and learned sign language there. She studied at University of Ilorin, in Kwara State. Edeh then studied at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, USA.
Edeh noticed the amount of human rights violations disabled people go through every day. She wanted to do something about it. She believed that laws that protected disabled people needed to be put in place in Nigeria. Edeh got her Bachelor of Laws Degree at University of Ilorin. She was the only deaf person in her class. Edeh also studied in the U.S. She went to University of Minnesota.
Edeh is the Executive Director of Voice of Disability Initiative. Their goal is to inspire disabled people, especially women. VDI also wants to protect the rights of disabled people.
Edeh has been helping deaf people go to the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. She did not have a secondary school near her home where she could study. She had to go far away for school. So, she wants a school deaf students can attend in the south part of Nigeria.
Edeh also works to protect deaf girls from violence. She works for better healthcare fir girls with disabilities.
Edeh married a deaf man to avoid being mistreated by a hearing husband.
Christine Philip
Christine Philip is a clothing designer. She is currently the CEO of Global Glam.
Philip was born in Manhattan. Her mother and father work in medicine. Her father is a pediatrician. She is Indian, German, and Portuguese. She studied at Rocky Bayou Christian School in Florida. She went to college at Emory University in Atlanta. In college, Philip worked in a store that sold expensive shoes. Customers liked her clothing. She began college studying medicine, but changed to marketing and finance.
Philip began her career by working at the Bally of Switzerland, a clothing house. She has worked in different countries before settling in the United States. Philip searched for her passion, and tried many different types of clothing design and jewelry design. She started a couple of small businesses. She then started Global Glam and the magazine launched in 2015, which is a magazine and retailer. In 2020, Philip launched an e-commerce division of Global Glam.
Philip currently lives in Naples, Florida with her family. She enjoys free time by playing tennis or going to the beach.
Maia Perez
Maia Perez (born October 19, 1999) is an American professional soccer player. She is a goalkeeper. She was drafted by Angel City FC in the United States' National Women's Soccer League. They sent her to play in France for a few years. She is the starting goalkeeper for Grand Paris Seine Ouest 92 Issy (GPSO 92 Issy) at the age of 23.
Perez grew up in East Kentwood, Michigan. She started to play soccer in the 2nd grade. She was the goalkeeper when playing with the boys in her elementary school.
Perez began playing division 1 soccer for the Hartford Hawks in her freshman year. She was in college for 5 years. Perez began playing with Angel City FC in Los Angeles, CA, USA in March of 2022. She currently plays with Grand Paris Seine Ouest 92 Issy (GPSO 92 Issy). In 2023 she started playing for OL Reign of Seattle.
Rahnee Patrick
Rahnee Patrick is the Asian American Director of the Division of Rehabilitation Services at the Illinois Department of Human Services. She is the first Asian American in this position. Patrick is an award-winning author and has 105 books published on Goodreads. In 2008, Patrick received an award from the American Association of People with Disabilities as a leader. She received the Paul Hearne Award.
Patrick graduated from John Glenn High School in 1992. She graduated from Indiana University at South Bend in 1996. She co-founded Students Together Active and Respected at Indiana University, where she met others with disabilities.
Patrick graduated from Illinois University at South Bend in 1996. She then started becoming involved in the independent living and disability rights movements as well as the group ADAPT. In 2007, the Governor of Illinois had her start working for the Illinois State Advisory Council on the Education of Children with Disabilities. Then, in 2008 she was awarded the Paul Hearne award. Patrick graduated from Adler University with her Master's in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She currently lives in Chicago with her husband and 2 dogs.
Chloe Anderson
Chloe Psyche Anderson is a transgender woman volleyball player. She is the first transgender athlete in a California college or university. She met the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA)
Anderson grew up in Long Beach, California. In preschool, she loved playing princesses and dressing up. A while before kindergarten she started getting bullied. She got beat up almost every day for about 7 years. When she was in middle school, she started failing classes, trying not to get noticed. Her only target was to not get noticed. She only felt excited about playing volleyball.
But by junior year she was feeling too sad. Her grades were too bad. She got kicked off the volleyball team at school.
Anderson found it difficult to play volleyball while taking hormones. Her body did not work as expected. By one year into her treatments, she was much slower and less powerful than before. Her "male muscles...melted off her body." She argues that trans players do not keep advantages of their gender before gender transition.
After Anderson changed the gender on her birth certificate and took gender replacement hormones for a year, both the California Community College Athletic Association and the NCAA let her play college volleyball.` Anderson played for Santa Ana Community College for two years and then changed to playing for the University of California Santa Cruz Volleyball team.
Marisa Seepersaud
Marisa Seepersaud is a Guyanese paediatric surgeon. She was the only pediatric surgeon in the country of Guyana until 2021. She provides surgical care for children and newborn babies. She became one of the two surgeons in high demand later on. Seepersaud is the head of paediatric surgeons at Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). She set up training programs that were not available in Guyana She helped train people who want to become surgeons. Seepersaud also introduced daycare surgeries that admitted patients within 24 hours of surgery.
After graduating from the University of Guyana School of Medicine, she went to study at the University of West Indies Jamaica, to learn more in-depth about the paediatric surgical program.
Right after attending both universities, Seepsaud joined "Baby Heart". Baby Heart is a non-profit team that focuses on performing surgeries around the world for children.
In 2019, Seepersaud won the "Canadian Association Paediatric Surgeon Global Scholar" Award.
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Nashwa El-Bendary
El-Bendary studied Computer and Data Science at Cairo University. She graduated in 2000. She then earned a MA in 2004 and PhD in 2008.
El Bendary uses artificial intelligence to understand climate change. Computer science helps her understand how agricultural crops are impacted by climate. She is interested in disease detection in crops. She is researching if artificial intelligence can help detect problems.
El-Bendary is a professor at the Arab Academy of Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AAST). She is now the Dean of the College of Computing and Information Technology at the AASTMT (South Valley branch). She directs the China-Arab States Technology Transfer Center (CASTTC).
She published over 80 research papers. She is also a member of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE).
Source bias
Source bias is a term from psychology. It means that when people select sources from where to get their information, they are more likely to pick either those sources that confirm what they already believe, or those that are very negative. This will then create so-called echo chambers for them. In news reporting, source bias affects how news organizations do news gathering in whom they choose to talk, and in news analysis, what they imply in the way they arrange facts collected.
Robert Bakewell
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Border Song
"Border Song" is a 1970 song by Elton John. It is from his second studio album "Elton John". It went to number 29 in the Netherlands, number 34 in Canada and number 91 in the United States and did not chart in the United Kingdom. It has been covered by Aretha Franklin and Willie Nelson.
Marion E. Wong
Marion E. Wong (1895-1969) was an American filmmaker of Chinese descent. She is one of a few known female directors of movies. Wong created the first known Asian American-made movie. She wrote, produced, directed and acted in the "Curse of Quon Gwon." Wong also made the scenery and costumes. It was one of the only movies that featured Chinese Americans in a non-stereotypical view. After making "Curse of Quon Gwon", she became bankrupt and stopped filmmaking. Her movie became lost except for 2 tins, which were recently discovered.
Wong was born in San Francisco. She moved to Oakland when she was young. She went to until she moved. Because she was the youngest of a big family, she probably got homeschooled after moving. Her family owned a cafe. As a child, she spent a lot of time at the cafe. When she was 15, she and her brothers went to China to find spouses. At that time, there was an act called the Geary Act. It made it hard for Chinese immigrants to come to the United States. Because of that, Wong and her brothers could only stay in China for one year. If they stayed longer, they could not return to the United States. In China, one of her brothers died of smallpox. The other brother found a good wife named Violet. Violet and Wong became good friends. Meanwhile, Wong found a someone to be her husband. She rejected him and went back to the United States without a husband.
Georgette Vidor
Georgette Vidor Mello (born 5 October 1958) is a Brazilian gymnastics coach and politician. She was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has worked as head of artistic gymnastics and as a coach at Clube de Rogatos de Flamengo. Vidor worked with the Brazilian National Women's Team for 15 years. With her as coach, the Brazilian team won their first Pan American gold medals and their first world medal. Vidor had an accident that caused her to be paraplegic. She still went on to coach more top athletes.
In 2002, Vidor was elected State Representative, with 50,350 votes. She later became a Deputy and created the first permanent commission to help people with disabilities in State Legislative Assemblies in Brazil, She also created the accessibility seal and held seminars every year. Vidor was part of the party executive. She helped others to prepare for their jobs. As of January 2023, Vidor was Head of Municipal Secretariat for People with Disabilities. She has held this position since May 2011.
Makiko Kudo
In 2007, she had a display of her art at Tomio Koyama Gallery in Kiyosumi, Japan. She had another display at Hiratsuka Museum of Art, Kanagawa, Japan in 2022.
She painted a picture for the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The opera started an art gallery. Her painting was in the first exhibit. She painted Princess Yue-yang from "The New Emperor".
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas is an American politician. She became a senator in the California Senate in 2022. Smallwood-Cuevas represents District 28. The district is for South Los Angeles and Culver City, CA. She started the Black Worker Center at University of California, Los Angeles. President Barak Obama liked the work Smallwood-Cuevas did for workers.
Smallwood-Cuevas was raised in a single parent household. She movedto California, with her mother, when she was young. Her mother wanted better jobs and schools. Her mother is a nurse. Smallwood-Cuevas graduated from California State University at Hayward. She is married. She has one daughter and one son.
Smallwood-Cuevas was a journalist. She wrote for the "Chicago Tribune", the "Long Beach Press Telegram" and the Oakland Tribune. She reported on the lives of working families. She then worked as a researcher for United Service Workers West. Smallwood-Cuevas co-founded the LA Black Worker Center. She also works with the Center for the Advancement of Racial Equity at Work at UCLA.
Smallwood Cuevas became a California State Senator on December 5, 2022. She is part of the Democratic Party. She represents district 28 in Los Angeles California. She got 99,479 votes out of 140,996 total votes. She had 59.9% of the votes.
Lama Hattab
Lama Hattab (born December 31, 1980) is a Middle Eastern ultramarathon runner from Jordan. Hattab and her twin sister, Dima Hattab are known for being the first females from the Middle East to run an ultramarathon. She is also a leader in "Generation of Peace" in Amman, Jordan.
Hattab is a twin. She and her sister Dima have many hobbies that they do together. They grew up in Tabarbour, Jordan, near Amman.
Hattab graduated from the University of Amman. She studied Information Technology.
Hattab and her sister love sports. They like to run and to cycle. They look for new sports to try.
Hattab and her sister run marathons and ultramarathons. She ran in the Marathon de Sables and the Dead Sea ultramarathon. Men were not nice to them at the marathons. Hattab won the Dead Sea Marathon the first time she ran it. Hattab encourages running in the Middle East, especially among young girls. She is also a leader in Generation of Peace an organization in Amman, Jordan. Hattab also ran in the Dead Sea in 1999 where she placed in 3rd.
Hattab also loves mountaineering. She and her sister wanted to be the first Arab women to be mountaineers in the Guinness Book of World Records. They hoped to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. In 2007, the twins went to Alaska, USA, to train to climb mountains.
First, Hattab and her sister climbed the highest mountain in North Africa's Atlas Mountains. In 2007, Jordan's Prince Faisal Bin Al-Hussein started a "Generations for Peace Initiative." The twins climbed the mountain to get attention for the Generations for Peace Initiative. They liked mountain climbing and want to climb more mountains. The Jordanian Olympics Committee said their climb was good for peace.
Their dream was to climb Mt. Everest. Jordan's King Abdullah's "Development Fund" help pay for their climb. But they could not get enough money to make the climb. They needed US$750,000. Companies did not think women can do sports, so did not give them money.
Hattab worked for the Jodanian Olympic Committee. At work she learned about an organization called Generations for Peace. In 2007, Prince Feisal Al Hussein of Jordan started that organization. The organization used sports and art to help young people make peace in places with war or other conflict.. She volunteered to work with children. She liked it and began to work for Generations for peace in 2009. Hattab is now the Program Director for Generations for Peace.
Dima Hattab
Modest fashion
Modest fashion includes wide legged pants, sheer dresses with non-transparent tops underneath, and traditional abayas.
An example is Zara. Rather than labeling clothes as modest, they work to make it easy to layer. This means they make money from Muslims but don't acknowledge it.
Abdallah makes the clothing for Dulce by Safiya. She makes fashionable shirts with hoods (called "hoodies") and hats called "beanies" that cover women's hair like hijabs.
Polonsky and Chanin are Jewish designers. They are sisters. They are from Sydney, Australia. Polonsky is a widow.
They started a modest fashion company called The Frock. Their clothes cover women's knees, elbows, and shoulders. Ploansky wanted modest dress but hated looking different from other people.
They like to take clothes that are immodest and mix them with modest clothes. They cover their bodies but include immodest fashion.
Hecht and Notik are also Jewish designers. Their clothing is popular with Jewish and Muslim women. Notik grew up in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Hecht grew up in Seattle, Washington, USA. Modest clothes were expensive. Also they were not pretty. They make clothes that are for layering - for example, wearing a dress and pants and a jacket, or wearing two dresses.
Jocelyne Larocque
Larocque was an all-American twice (2008-2009, 2010-2011). She began her career playing for the Calgary Oval X-Treme. She has been a player on the Canadian National Hockey team since 2008.
Larocque won her first Olympic medal at the 2014 Sochi games, where Canada took the gold. She returned to the games for Pyeongchang 2018, with Canada winning silver. Her most recent games were the 2022 Beijing Olympics, where Canada won gold.
Larocque has won gold medals at 3 world championships. She has also won silver medals 5 times, and bronze once.
Elaine Denniston
Elaine Denniston (born 1939) was a punch card operator for the Apollo program. She corrected a lot of computer code that made the rockets work better.
Denniston was brought up in Boston, Massachusetts. She went to Girls' Latin High School and graduated in 1957. Her school did not teach science. Denniston then married a man named Baron D. Denniston. She had two children.
Denniston worked as a clerk after high school.
At the New England Life Insurance Company she learned to be a keypunch operator. She made the holes in punched cards. In the 1950s and 1960s, those cards were how computers got information. So, computer programmers wrote computer code on paper. Keypunch operators then punched code onto the punched cards to get the code into the computers.
In 1966 Denniston went to work for the MIT Instrumentation Lab (now called Draper Laboratory). Her job at MIT was to keypunch data that programmers wrote for the Apollo Project. She helped make rockets to go to the Moon. She worked on guidance systems - the parts that controlled the rocket's movements.
Her job was to keypunch cards but she saw many mistakes the coders made. She started editing and correcting code. She learned coding rules. She saw mistakes and learned how to correct them.
Her contributions were recognized in the BBC Podcast, "13 Minutes to the Moon" and the We Hack The Moon exhibit.
Denniston could not get a better job at MIT because she was a woman and she was Black. She left MIT in 1968. Denniston went to study at Radcliffe College. She graduated in 1973.
Denniston then studied at Boston University Law School. She became a lawyer. Most of her work was for the government of the state of Massachusetts. Denniston retired in 2012.
Kim Hamrock
Hamrock grew up in La Habra Heights. She lived twenty miles from the coast. Hamrock was six years old the first time she saw someone surfing. The surfer was on television. She liked surfing from seeing it on television. At age 13 she went to Hawaii with her grandmother. She surfed for the first time.
Hamrock went to school at La Serna High in Whittier, CA. She did not live near the ocean. At age 16 she was able to drive a car. Then, she could drive to the ocean to surf. She would surf even though men thought girls should not surf. She would also get car rides to the ocean from Marty Hamrock. She married Marty Hamrock in 1979. She had children and did not surf very much.
Hamrock became serious about surfing in 1990. She began winning competitions.
Susil Nelson-Kongoi
Susil Nelson-Kongoi is Papua New Guinean businessperson and is a leader in the country at helping working women get more responsibility and better work rights. She supports human rights. She helps indigenous women work for better jobs. She is the Senior Media and Communications Advisor at Exxonmobil PNG Limited. She works on public policy, helping the government of Papua New Guinea make good policies. She is Vice-Chariman of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall Westpac Outstanding Women Award in 2012 for helping Papua New Guinean women to join the workforce. She is one of the only female oil executives in Papua New Guinea. She was featured in the "Pawa Meri" ("Power Women") film project that highlighted important women in Papua New Guinea.
Nelson-Kongoi comes from East Sepik Province. Her parents were educated. They were huge supporters of education. This inspired Nelson-Kongoi to sponsor and fight for Papua New Guineans education. Nelson-Kongoi has a Bachelor of Commerce from Canterbury College. She studied management and information systems. She also has a MBA from Divine Word University PNG.
She works for Exxonmobil PNG Limited as their Senior Media and Communication Advisor. She has been the Manager for Corporate Governance and Special Projects at PNG Sustainable program Ltd for 14 years. Her work helps other women who want careers.
Nelson-Kongoi was also asked to work on many national-level projects to make business and the economy stronger in Papua New Guinea. She is on the board of the Business Council of Papua New Guinea. She also helped the The Center for International Private Enterprise start its Papua New Guinea Business Advocacy Network. The Business Advocacy Network helps women get high-level jobs. She is the leader of that Network. She is also the Board Coordinator for the Papua New Guinea Chamber of Commerce and Industry. She is a board member for the Incentive Fund, helping girls and women work in businesses. Nelson-Kongoi also helps teach women about personal and business finance. She helps the Business Coalition For Women (BCFW) teach women about being business leaders. Nelson-Kongoi is the president of the Business and Professional Women's Club of Port Moresby, too.
Nelson-Kongoi won the Overall WOW Award (Westpac Outstanding Women Award) in 2012 for helping women in Papua New Guinea get jobs. She also earned a fellowship from the Australian Government's Fellowship program. She also fundraises for scholoarships for girls.
The Curse of Quon Gwon
The Curse of Quon Gwon is a Chinese American silent film. It is the oldest known Asian American film. It was completed in 1916. The producer of the film was Marion E. Wong. "The Curse of Quon Gwon" is a film about a family who are cursed for beginning to accept Western culture.
"The Curse of Quon Gwon" used to have 7 reels, but only 2 survived. Because of this, the movie is 42 minutes long. On July 21, 2005, the reels were released.
The film company went bankrupt after making the movie.
Maria Branyas Morera (born 4 March 1907) is the current title holder of world's oldest living person since the death of Lucile Randon on 17 January 2023, and the 18th oldest undisputed person in history.
In March 2020, she became the oldest person to recover from COVID-19. This record was later surpassed by Lucile Randon.
She currently lives in a nursing home located in Olot, Catalonia.
Herman Coessens
Coessens was most known as a stage actor at where he played between the 1970s and 1990s. Coessens also played in many television series, including ', ', "Ons geluk", ', ' and "Flikken".
Coessens married to actress Lieve Moorthamer. He died from an illness in January 2022, at the age of 79.
Fred Bellefroid
Bellefroid is the creator of the iconic at the Oude Markt in Leuven. He made many sport statues. The common style of his statues are long figures that are moving. In 2021 he created the prize statues for the winner of the Brabantse Pijl cycling race.
Bellefroid died in on 13 January 2022, at the age of 76.
Hammond Pond Reservation
Hammond Pond Reservation is a woodland park in Newton, Massachusetts. Hammond Pond is located within the park.
The park is a part of the Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston. The first piece of land that would become the park was bought from John Lowell in 1916. There are trails there that go to Webster Woods and Houghton Garden. The MBTA Green Line (Riverside Branch) runs through the park from East to West, and the Hammond Pond Parkway runs through the park from North to South.
Hammond Pond is as a Massachusetts "Great pond". The pond and reservation are named after the Hammond family, which settled in the area in the 17th century.
Richie Stringini
Christopher Richard Stringini (known as "Richie Stringini") is an American actor, dancer and singer. He was born on November 28, 1988 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Richie Stringini was adopted at the age of four to Kathleen and Robert Stringini, from Wheaton, Illinois, USA. Richie Stringini has a brother named Bobby. he studied at Acacia Academy located in LaGrange, Illinois. Richie Stringini started acting and modeling professionally at the age of four. then Richie Stringini acted in a movie titled Rule Number One (2005). Before auditioning in Florida for the reality television show Big In America (BIA).
Known as "Richie" in the pop boy band US5. A group that was developed by Lou Pearlman through a German reality TV show, Big in America. He is an original member of US5, which enjoys great success in Europe.
After a few years of silence, Richie began a solo career. His debut single was "Man Down."
Arjan Paans
Paans was born in 1969. His father Boudewijn Paans, was editor-in-chief of . His mother Anna worked for the "Gooi- en Eemlander" and "Amersfoortse Courant".
Paans started his journalist career at "Gooi- en Eemlander" where his mother worked. He worked for 23 years in several positions at "Algemeen Dagblad". He worked for "Algemeen Dagblad" between 2003 and 2008 in Berlin, Germany. He became for "Algemeen Dagblad" deputy editor-in-chief. He was editor-in-chief interior and coordinator Rotterdam at NRC Handelsblad. In 2016 he started working for the regional newspapers of the Telegraaf Media Groep and was among others editor-in-chief of "Leidsch Dagblad", "Haarlems Dagblad" and "Gooi- en Eemlander". Paans was editor-in-chief of free newspaper "Metro" between 2017 and May 2018. In 2021 he became editor-in-chief of .
Paans was married to Loes and they had a son Wolf. Paans died from cancer on 13 January 2022, at the age of 53.
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Fons Panis
Panis attended gymnasium in Tilburg. After completing his military service, he studied Dutch law at the University of Utrecht. After his graduation in 1960, he started his civil service career at the General Affairs department of the province of Utrecht. He later became secretary of the Midden-Utrecht circle. Subsequently he was acting secretary of the cooperation body agglomeration Eindhoven. In May 1973 he became mayor of Maartensdijk. During his term as mayor, new-build neighborhoods were established on the south side of the village of Maartensdijk, like the the 'Kruidenbuil', as well as the new-build neighborhoods of Groenekan and Westbroek. Panis opposed the abolition of the municipality of Maartensdijk. In mid-1987 Panis became mayor of Leusden. He was the mayor of Leusen until 1997.
Panis died in Amersfoort on 15 January 2023, at the age of 90.
Alphons Panis
Panis was born as the son of teacher Leonardus Waltherus Panis (1852-1933) and Anna Maria Cornelia van Roessel (1857-1914). He grew up in a large Catholic family. Several brothers became priests, including the titular bishop Walther Panis; one sister joined the Sisters of St. Francis. His brother Constant Panis became a known architect in Tilburg.
Panis worked at the municipal clerk of Berkel-Enschot. In 1926 he started working as a secretary at the municipality of Helvoirt. In 1929, Panis was appointed mayor of Berkel-Enschot. Eight years later in 1937 he was appointed mayor of Haaren. In 1947 he returned to the municipality of Berkel-Enschot to become mayor there again. Panis retired in 1965.
Constant Panis
Panis is seen as one of the most important architects in the region of Tilburg. Many buildings that he designed became municipal or national monuments.
Panis was the brother Alphons Panis. He was mayor of Berkel-Enschot and Haaren.
The 1928-29 Austrian Cup was the cup competition in Austrian football.
The Official Hamster Republic Role Playing Game Construction Engine, also known as OHRRPGCE, is a software made for creating video games. It was first shared with two different versions: a "crippled" version, which had the user be locked with only four maps to build with, and an "uncrippled" version, with sixteen maps to build with.
Taline and Friends
The group has played a major role in developing Armenian language skills for children worldwide since the early 1990s.
The group has made 5 DVDs and 11 CDs. These include lessons on different topics, including animals, the Armenian alphabet, and being Armenian. Their YouTube videos get over 20,000 views each day.
Taline was recognized among the 30 exceptional businesswomen at the 13th Annual Women in Business Legislative Update and Awards luncheon in 2012.
Jan Theelen
Theelen played accordion when he was six years old. He started his professional music career as a pianist. He worked for a long time with Tom Manders, better known as Dorus. In the seventies he worked with the American Dutch singer , and also with making the single "".
Theelen had had its own music studio since the 1960s, first in Venray and later in Munstergeleen. Later he had this studio named "Onger Os" together with his son. In Limburg he was particularly known as an arranger of carnival music. Much of this music was recorded in his studio, that closed in 2020.
Theelen died in Sittard on 15 January 2022, at the age of 82.
Marie Korsaga
Marie Korsaga is an astrophysicist from Burkina Faso. She is the first female Burkinabe astrophysicist. Korsaga studies dark matter. She also supports girls who are interested in science.
Korsaga became interested in science when she learned about people traveling to the Moon. She was fascinated by shooting stars. She was interested in many kinds of science. Korsaga did not see many women working in science. She saw very few African women working in science. She did see some female engineers. She planned to be a civil engineer.
Korsaga attended Joseph Ki-Zerbo University in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. She studied mathematics and physics. She learned about new kinds of science. Astronomy was one of the sciences that she learned about.
She continued studying in France after she finished college. Korsaga want to the Astrophysics Laboratory of Marseille (LAM) in France. She earned a doctorate from LAM and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. She studied galaxies.
She won the African Network of Women in Astronomy award. The award is from the African Network of Women in Astronomy.
Korsaga works to get more girls from Burkina Faso interested in science. She also works to make Burkina Faso stronger in research about space. She wants her country to be the first African country to launch satellites into space.
Wahida Amiri
Amiri was born and raised in Kabul, Afghanistan and temporarily moved to Pakistan and came back to Kabul at 15. When she moved to Pakistan she had to do many of the chores like cooking, cleaning, and scrubbing the floors. After the Taliban was defeated, Amiri returned home. Women and girls could now go to school and work. Even though education was important to Amiri, her family thought taking care of the house and guests was more important. Five years later, she was able to enroll into school with the help of her cousin.
The Taliban said girls cannot go to school. They said women cannot have jobs. Amiri organized women to protest.
Saeeda Etebari
Saeeda Etebari is an Afghani jewelry artist. Etebari had meningitis when she was one, causing her to be deaf. She joined the Turquoise Mountain Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture and trained in jewelry-making. She was chosen to have an exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.
Aiko Doden
Aiko Doden is a Senior Commentator at NHK Japan Broadcasting Corporation. She is also chief producer at NHK World. Doden is a commentator about Asia and the world. She knows the most about South East Asia and United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals.
Doden went to Columbia University for graduate school. She has a Master's degree in international relations. When she was little, Doden lived in London, England.
Romy Medeiros da Fonseca
Romy Medeiros da Fonseca ( July 1921 - 2013) was a Brazilian lawyer, publisher, and women's rights activist. She was born in Rio de Janeiro. She was part of many groups that fought so women would have the same rights as men in Brazil. She fought to make sure women had the right to be in the army. She was a publisher of many stories about women's rights. In 1977 she was a big part of making the law letting married people to break up. Da Fonseca was also part of the United Nations board for problems about making sure that women had the same rights as others. She also made the National Council of Women in Brazil. Da Fonseca was also a big help to make sure everyone had the same rights while Brazil was having a government problem in 1964.
Junko Shimada
In school, she started watching French movies. Shimada moved to Paris in 1966.
After moving to Paris, Shimada worked as a stylist and with famous fashion companies. She worked for Mafia Design Studio. She then moved to Cacharel. She first designed children's clothes, then men's clothes.
In 1981 she started the "Junko Shimada Design Studio." She has many shops in France. She also makes luggage, eyeglasses, kimonos, and other items.
Shimada received the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government in 2012.
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Naomi Faik-Simet
Naomi Faik-Simet (b. 1977) is a Papua New Guinean dance researcher at the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. She is the first PhD from Papua New Guinea to graduate from a dance studies program. Fail-Simet is also the first dance research her country's government ever employed. She works to preserve and create cultural traditions. Papua New Guinea is working to be modern. Sometimes people do not like traditional ideas. Faik-Simet wants people from Papua New Guinea to remember their culture and not just adopt other cultural traditions. She teaches people about traditional and contemporary dance and music. She shows people traditional and new arts can go together. She represents Papua New Guinea for UNESCO's Asia/Pacific Cultural Centre, the International Council for Traditional Music, World Dance Alliance, and World Alliance for Arts Education.
Faik-Simet was born in Papua New Guinea. She grew up during the period after Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia.
In 2001, Faik-Simet started working for the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. In 2003 she returned to University of Papua New Guinea to complete her undergraduate college degree. She completed her degree in 2005. Soon, Faik-Simet realized she needed more education. First, she connected with experts who lived in New Zealand, Nicholas Rowe and Ralph Buck. In 2010 she got a scholarship from the University of Auckland to study a traditional dance called "gunge takwaku."
Faik-Simet graduated from University of Auckland in New Zealand with a PhD in dance studies in November, 2021. She studied in New Zealand from. April 28, 2017 until Dec 29, 2020. She studied the impact of colonialism on dance education in Papua New Guinea. Faik-Simet studied how to use dance to pass down culture and knowledge. She is now the assistant director at the Institute of Papua New Guinea. Faik-Simet is the only dance researcher in Papua New Guinea.
Faik-Simet helps organize conferences, like the 8th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of Oceania.
She received the Mineral Resource Development Co (MRDC) award in 2011 for making an impact in decolonising dance in Papua New Guinea. The award is a Westpac Public Sector award. It is part of the Westpac Outstanding Women Award.
Faik-Simet and her husband have two children.
Elsa Flores
Elsa Renee Flores is an American biologist and chemist. She is a member of the editorial board of "Cancer Research," a very prestigious research journal. She is the leader of the Cancer Molecular Pathobiology study section at the United State's National Institutes of Health. Before this, she served as the co-director of the Metastasis Research Center. She was also the director of the Genes and Development Ph.D. program at "The University of Texas" "MD Anderson Cancer Center."
Flores grew up in Corpus Christi, Texas. Her father studied biology and chemistry which sparked her love for science. However, when she had to make a decision for college, she was stuck between science and liberal arts. In the end, she enrolled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and majored in chemical engineering. Later, she came back as a postdoctoral fellow. As a postdoc she worked in Tyler Jacks's lab. Flores was a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Flores was a member of the editorial board of "Cancer Research".
Flores discovered many ways to tackle cancer that can be used as possible cancer treatments in the future. She studied causes of breast cancer with Helmut Zarbl. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked in "Paul Lambert's" Lab. She dissected the life cycle of the human papillomavirus- a major cause of cervical cancer.
Flores discovered cancerous tumors could regress with a protein called amylin. This discovery helped her continue her search for the cure for cancer.
Flores holds several patents for inventions to help fight cancer.
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Lavenia Yalovi
Lavenia Yalovi is a Fijian sports commentator. Sports journalist Aaron Kearney recruited her to learn to be a sports commentator. He asked Yalovi to join the "Commentary for Good" program. That program worked with Women in news and sport. One of the goals of the program was to get more women reporting on sports. Yalovi is one of the first female Pacific Islander to be a sports commentator. She worked during the Women's World Cup and commentated in Fijian. Yalovi was also on three national sports teams.
Yalovi plays many different sports. She grew up in Kadavu Island. As a child, she was not allowed to play soccer because she was a girl. Soccer was seem as a sport for boys. As a girl, she could play softball and netball.
Yalovi's family moved to Suva for secondary and tertiary education.
Yalovi became a social science teacher. She was asked be a sports coach at her school. She started learning soccer so she could coach girls to play it. She became really good at soccer. In one year she was on Fiji's national football team.
Yalovi commentates with Adele Willie and Jennesa Hinge Moli of Vanuatu. Kearney recruited them together. Willie and Moli have worked in media. Yalovi knows about sports. Together they can comment on games. Their first job together was at the Oceania Nations Cup. FIFA liked their work. FIFA invited them to come to France to work at the Women's World Cup.
Riley Silverman
Silverman is also head writer for the quiz show podcast, "International Waters" (renamed "Troubled Waters)." She has a science fiction podcast called "Bubble." She did SyFy channel's limited podcast "Forgotten Women of Genre."
She headlined at Portland's Queer Comedy Festival. Silverman inspired the creation of HoliDames, an all-female comedy show that is performed every December in her hometown, Columbus, Ohio.
Silverman grew up in rural Ohio, near Columbus. As a child, Silverman wanted to be an inventor. Silverman is a transgender woman. She lives in Los Angeles, California. She is a life-long Star Wars fan. She likes cosplay.
Esmeralda Soria
Esmeralda Soria is an American politician. She is currently serving as a California State Assembly member. She represents California District 27. Soria's district covers Fresno, Madera, and Merced counties. Soria won the election on Tuesday, November 8th, 2021. She was sworn in on Monday, December 5th, 2022. Soria is a member of the Democratic Party.
Soria is one of five children. One sister is on the Lindsay City Council, in Tulare County, California. Another sister is on the board of directors of the Lindsay Unified School District. Soria's youngest sister is on the board of directors of the local hospital. She also has one brother.
Soria worked as a legal clerk for California Rural Legal Assistance. She became Policy Advisor for California Assemblyman Henry T. Perea. She was District Director for State Senator Michael Rubio. She then became an adjunct professor at Fresno City College.
Soria was elected to the Fresno City Council in 2014. She was on the city council eight years. She was the only woman on the council. Soria represented more than 72,000 people from her community. She helped homeless people and worked for affordable housing. Soria also wanted better parks. Soria was a member of the Fresno City Council until her win as a California State Assembly member in 2022. She was elected president of the Council in 2018. She was the first Latina council president in Fresno city history.
Soria ran against US Congressperson Jim Costa for California District 16 in the United States Congress. She lost in the primary election to a Republican Party candidate, Kevin Cookingham.
Soria ran for the California State Assembly in 2022. She ran against Mark Pazin. The election was on November 4, 2022. The vote was very close: 51% for Soria, 49% for Pazin. She took office on December 5th 2022. Right now, she is working with a board of other assembly members.
Adriana Cerezo Iglesias
Adriana Cerezo Iglesias (born November 24, 2003) is a Spanish taekwondo artist. At only the age of 17, Cerezo had won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, making her one of the youngest Spanish olympic athletes to ever compete in taekwondo.
Cerezo attended the Hankuk school and competed for their team. In 2020, she won a gold medal during her first time at the European Taekwondo Championships. Shortly after, Cerezo qualified to compete for Spain in the Tokyo Olympics. In 2021, Cerezo had won gold medals at the Turkish and Spanish open. In addition to this, she had also won a silver medal in the Tokyo Olympics which had been moved due to the COVID pandemic. Cerezo still competes in Taekwondo and is working towards the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Cornufer mediodiscus
The Buka sticky-toed frog ("Cornufer gigas") is a frog. People have seen it on two islands of the Solomon Islands: Bougainville Island and Buka Island. These two islands are in Papua New Guinea. People saw the frog between 0 and 1230 meters above sea level.
Ariane 6 is a European expendable launch system. In 2023, it was being developed. It has been in development since the early 2010s by ArianeGroup. They were creating it for the European Space Agency (ESA). The system was being built to replace the Ariane 5. The stated reason for Ariane 6 was that is was half the cost of Ariane 5. The new system would also increase the maximum number of launches each year from six or seven to up to eleven.