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Saturday, October 30, 2010

Rabble Rousers by Cheryl Harness

20 Women Who Made A Difference
Ann Lee - Mother of the American Shakers
Frances Wright - Passionate Patriot
Emma Hart Willard - Equal Opportunity Educator
Sojourner Truth - The Abolition Movement
Mary Ann Shadd Cary - Abolitionist Activist
Elizabeth Cady Stanton - Revolutionary in Petticoats
Susan B. Anthony - Suffrage: The Women's Movement
Dr. Mary Edwards Walker - Civil War Heroine and Performer
Frances E. Willard - Temperance Activist
Mary E. Lease - Populist "Joan of Arc of Kansas"
Ida Bell Wells - Barnett - Anti-Lynching Campaigner
Jane Addams - Social Worker in the Mankind Business
Mary Harris Jones - The Labor Movement
Margaret Sanger - Birth-Control Activist
Alice Paul - Suffragist: The Last Push for the Vote
Eleanor Roosevelt - First Lady of the World
Fannie Lou Hamer - The Civil Rights Movement
Betty Friedman - Feminist
Dolores Huerta - Champion of Migrant Farmworkers
Doris Haddock - Champion of Government Reform

Friday, October 1, 2010

Hatshepsut - The Princess Who Became King - By Ellen Galford

A.D. 1842-1845 Lepsiu's confirms that there was a female pharaoh - Hatshepsut. 

Hatshepsut's tomb was excavated in 1893 by Henry Edouard Naville. She ruled for about 22 years. She made herself King after the death of her husband c.1501 B.C. After becoming King she rewrites the story of her birth to give herself divine lineage.
"Hatshepsut decorated the walls of her new temple at Deir el-Bahri with a rewritten life story, in which her birth was the result of a miraculous meeting between the divine Amen (Amon/Amun - sometimes called the Creator God) and her mother Ahmose".(p.49) This is B.C. (Before Christ) It's interesting how the story mirrors the Virgin Birth of Christ. The word "amen" is also used at the end of  Christian prayers.