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Sirleaf has made education free and compulsory for all children in Liberia. She was responsible for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:41
Stanton eventually claimed that the 14th and 15th Amendments, in fact -- because of the way they were worded -- gave women the right to vote
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:51
In 1954, Tamana helped to organize the first Conference of the Federation of South African Women and she was elected to the organization's national...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Instructed in a "vision" to save men from a drunkard's fate by smashing the bottles waiting behind the bars of Kansas taverns, Nation went forth in...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:47
Phoebe Ann Moses so fascinated a sharpshooting Irish immigrant named Frank Butler by beating him out of a hundred dollar bet that he married her an...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:28
Annie Edson Taylor was the first to go over Niagra Falls in a barrel.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:57
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
By Tess Weinberg. While the Flaming Lips are now one of the biggest names in indie rock, things weren't always that way for the band. Tess Weinberg...
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- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 01:40
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Bandleader Andy Kirk gave up his post office carrier in 1925 to try his hand in music. He showed talent on the saxophone and tuba, but it evolved t...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 58:58
- Purchases: 1
This week on Culture Queue, we look at the most exciting events happening in the Twin Cities. Our program begins with a look at this year's Cirque ...
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- Added: Oct 22, 2012
- Length: 30:42
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California’s influence on early jazz is not a trifling matter. Several musicians emerged from the Golden State to lustrous careers.
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- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 58:56
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In the earliest jazz bands of the 1920s, the baritone and bass saxophones were relegated to the rhythm section, the bass line. But everything bega...
- Added: Oct 11, 2012
- Length: 58:53
Maathai worked to establish what came to be called the Green Belt Movement to combat desertification, deforestation, water crisis, and rural hunger...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:58
In 2011, when Tawakkol Karman became the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize ever.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:48
Shirley Muldowney was the first person to win two and then three National Hot Rod Association Top Fuel dragster championships.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:19
in 1790 the Yankees fully intended to turn this "New World" into their own nation. The Native Americans, on the other hand, indigenous to the conti...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:36
At nearly thirty years of age, she heard the call to leave her family behind and take her adventurous spirit on the road to Japan, where she joined...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:56
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Mai threw a Pakistani tribal council and the men who raped her an unexpected curve. Rather than kill herself, she sued the rapists in a court of law.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
What does a woman do when her husband and four children all die of yellow fever and her dressmaking workshop burns to the ground? She becomes an in...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:14
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
By the time she'd found a small school that would accept her in the Montmarte section of Paris, it was apparent to anyone who would listen that Mic...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:35
And at twenty-eight years of age, having beaten every challenge life threw her, O'Neil climbed into the seat of a hydrogen peroxide powered rocket ...
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:16
In 1993, Julie Krone became the first woman to win the Belmont Stakes.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:26
