Birth Locations – Page 142 – The Exasperated Historian

87) Ankhesenpepi II

Miniature Figurine of Ankhesenpepi II with her son Pepi II

87) Ankhesenpepi II

“Pepi lives for Her”

Birth and Death Dates Unknown

She was the daughter of Nebet and Khui and mother to Pharaoh Pepi II of Ancient Egypt.

Ankhesenpepi II was the wife of Pharaoh Pepi I—and after he died, she married Merenre Nemtyemsaf—her nephew and another Pharaoh.

She ruled Egypt as regent for her son Pepi II and after her marriage to Pepi I she changed her name to Ankhesenmeryre or “Meryre lives for her” (Meryre was Pepi’s throne name).

She has a Google Page but her sister Ankhesenpepi I does not.

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The Pharaohs by Dr. Joyce Tildesley

Sources:

https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/ankhnespepiii/

86) Willem Arondeus

86) Willem Arondeus

Artist & Nazi Resistance Fighter

Born: 22 August 1894, Naarden, The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Died: 1 July 1943, Haarlem, The Kingdom of the Netherlands

Willem left home at the age of seventeen and severed contact with his family after they did not support him when he came out as gay. When he was thirty-eight, he met Jan Tijssen, and they would live together for seven years. Though he was a struggling artist, Willem refused to apply for government welfare to help pay his way. Luckily, his finances improved somewhat after he published a biography on a fellow artist.

After the Nazi occupation, he helped firebomb the Dutch Public Records Office to hinder the identification of Dutch Jews from Nazis. Willem joined the resistance, not only because it was the right thing to do, but also because he knew just how dangerous Fascism could be. The Netherlands had decriminalized homosexual relations many years before, but the Nazi occupiers immediately re-criminalized them.

Willem was arrested and executed alongside eleven other resistance members. He asked his friend to tell the world for him that “Homosexuals are not cowards.”

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Sources:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/id-card/willem-arondeus

https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/m04xr38?categoryid=artist

https://www.ozy.com/flashback/willem-arondeus-the-openly-gay-anti-fascist-resistance-fighter/32825

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149117875/willem-johan_cornelis-arondeus

86) Millicent Fawcett

Suffragette and Feminist

Born: 11 June 1847, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom

Died: 5 August 1929, London, United Kingdom

For fifty years she was one of the leaders of the Suffrage Movement in the United Kingdom.

She also alienated other Suffragettes because she did not condone the violence of Emmeline Pankhurst—a fellow suffragette who used brute force and other militant tactics to get what she wanted.

Millicent helped found Newnham College at Cambridge—one of the first colleges that admitted women (though to be fair it was more of a boarding home at the outset where women could attend other classes throughout Cambridge. Women were not allowed to receive degrees from Cambridge until 1948).

Millicent's father, sister, and husband were all political (though in different ways) and helped guide her on her own path.

In 1897 she became the President of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies; she saw her dream come true in 1918 when around 600,000 British Female citizens were given the right to vote (in 1928 all women were given the right in equality with men).

She also worked with the British government to legitimize expanding the empire. During the South African War, she was sent by the government to investigate the Concentration Camps used to contain Boer civilians and she unsurprisingly found that the camps were justified.

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A Short History of the World in 50 Lies by Natasha Tidd

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt: The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age by Amanda Mackenzie Stuart

Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Millicent-Fawcett

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14984349/millicent-fawcett

85) Ub Iwerks

Animator and Special Effects Technician who Brought Mickey Mouse to Life

Born: 24 March 1901, Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America

Died: 7 July 1971, Burbank, California, United States of America

Original Name: Ubbe Iwerks

He became friends with Walt Disney at the age of eighteen and they began working together in 1920.

Ub opened his own studio in 1930 and brought many innovations to the field including the multi-plane camera.

Ub closed his studio in 1936 and then returned to Disney in 1940 where he would remain until his death.

He received three special Academy Awards for his work in technical innovation and helped bring some of the attractions at both Disneyland and Disney World to life.

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Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation by Mindy Johnson

The Rough Guide to Film Musicals by David Parkinson

Sources:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ub-Iwerks

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/361079/the-disney-book-by-dk-publishing/9781465437877/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8690/ub-iwerks

85) Susan B Anthony

"Marriage, to women as to men must be a luxury, not a necessity; an incident of life, not all of it. And the only possible way to accomplish this great change is to accord women equal power."

85) Susan B Anthony

Social Advocate and One of the Most Famous Supporters of Women’s Suffrage

Born: 15 February 1820, Adams, Massachusetts, United States of America

Died: 13 March 1906, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Susan was also an abolitionist, temperance advocate, and equal pay and labor rights advocate. Her causes often clashed with her Quaker background, and she was often criticized and shunned by politicians and leaders, male and female alike, but this didn't deter Susan.

Susan worked closely with Elizabeth Cady Stanton—a fellow suffrage advocate.

Susan and Elizabeth were opposed to the 14th and 15th amendments on the grounds that they did not include a guarantee for votes for women (though some claim they were also biased against colored people having a vote in general).

Susan was arrested in 1872 for illegally attempting to vote. Though she was fined, Susan never paid and was immensely proud of having stood up for what she viewed as her right as an American citizen. On the anniversary of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which guaranteed the right to vote regardless of sex in the United States, President Trump pardoned Susan B Anthony, and pointed out all the good she had done for women across the United States. Unfortunately, the Susan B Anthony museum "Rejected" Trump's pardon, proving just how volatile politics are in the United States at this moment. What most media outlets forget to mention is that the Susan B Anthony List was present and cheered the president on as he signed Susan's pardon.

Susan also led a march during the celebrations of the nation’s 100th birthday to protest for the rights of women’s suffrage.

Susan helped merge the two largest suffrage groups in the United States and then led them both until 1900. She lobbied Congress practically every year but still passed away long before women were given the right to vote with the passage of the 19^th Amendment.

Susan is also remembered today as being a Dazzling Daughter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.

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How They Choked by Kevin O'Malley

After the Fact: The Surprising Fates of American History's Heroes, Villains, and Supporting Characters by Owen Hurd

America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines by Gail Collins

The Book of Awesome Women: Boundary Breakers, Freedom Fighters, Sheroes, and Female Firsts by Becca Anderson

No Place for a Woman: The Struggle for Suffrage in the Wild West by Chris Enss

Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel

Suffragists in Washington DC: The 1913 Parade and the Fight for the Vote by Rebecca Boggs Roberts

Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theatre and the Popular Press in Nineteenth Century America by Amanda Frisken

Whose Who in American History: Leaders, Visionaries, and Icons who Shaped Our Nation by John M Thompson, William R Gray, and KM Kostyal

Sources:

NSDAR’s Distinguished Daughters List

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/susan-b-anthony

https://susanb.org/her-life/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31/susan-b_-anthony

84) Patrick Henry

“I know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!”

Born: 29 May 1736, Studley, the Colony of Virginia (Present-day Studley, Virginia, United States of America)

Died: 6 June 1799, Brookneal, Virginia, United States of America

A jack of all trades, Patrick was an Orator, Planter, Attorney, Politician, and Founding Father. He even served as the first governor of the state of Virginia.

He is also remembered for opposing ratification for the US Constitution. However, his reasons were sound. Patrick was concerned the new constitution did not provide enough encouragement that they would secure the rights of the individual or the states (later rectified by the passage of the Bill of Rights) and that the Northern states would allow Spain control of the Mississippi River.

But that’s not why he made it onto this list. Patrick saved his Mentally Ill Wife from a mental institution. To read more about her, click her name here: Sarah Shelton Henry.

The exact illness she suffered from is not known, but a likely culprit would be postpartum depression. Instead of shipping his wife off to an asylum, Patrick chose to keep her at home. True, he kept her in the basement of their house and away from company, but it was still a better alternative than his other options.

After Sarah passed away, Patrick remarried, this time to Dorothea Dandridge. He had sixteen children between his two wives.

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Patrick-Henry

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/472/patrick-henry

84) Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin

Writer and Feminist Most Known for Her Work Vindication of the Rights of Woman.

Born: 27 April 1759, Spitalfields, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom)

Died: 10 September 1797, Somers Town, London, England (Present-day United Kingdom)

Mary left home after her mother’s death and her father’s abusive behavior became too much for her.

She would eventually start a school for girls with her sister and another female friend. Mary wrote many pamphlets and even a book on the importance of educating girls.

She tried to work as a governess for a time but found domestic house life was not for her and instead, she became a regular contributor to her friend’s newspaper. Mary also wrote that women should not be tied down to domestic life and that ignoring the fact that women had strong sexual desires of their own was stupid to pretend otherwise (you can imagine how unpopular she was with some people for that).

She began an affair with an American merchant that produced a daughter she named Fanny however the father left her soon after.

During that time Mary wrote her critique of the French Revolution, among her other works.

Mary soon found herself in a relationship with William Godwin, the founder of philosophical anarchism. They married in 1797 despite not believing in the practice because they wished to legitimize the child Mary was pregnant with.

She died ten days after the birth of their daughter—also named Mary, who would grow up to write The Modern Prometheus: Frankenstein.

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The Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

History's Naughty Bits by Karen Dolby

Founding Mothers by Cokie Roberts

Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White & Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison

Hypatia's Heritage: A History of Women in Science from Antiquity to the Late Nineteenth Century by Margaret Alic

Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored by Mary Gabriel

The Only Woman by Immy Humes

Scandalous Women: The Lives and Loves of History's Most Notorious Women by Elizabeth Kerri Mahon

Sources:

https://www.biography.com/scholar/mary-wollstonecraft

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/place_settings/mary_wollstonecraft

https://britlitsurvey2.wordpress.com/2014/11/07/the-french-revolution-and-its-influence-on-mary-wollstonecrafts-opinions-on-educational-rights/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5630/mary-godwin

83) Ben Thompson

Lawman, Gunslinger, & Protector of Women

Born: 2 November 1843, Knottingley, United Kingdom

Died: 11 March 1884 AD, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Ben's family emigrated to Texas in 1851.

Ben got his label as a protector of women when, in 1859, Ben was in New Orleans on business when he found a Frenchman abusing a woman and intervened. Some have said Ben went on to kill that guy in a later fight.

Ben would serve in the Confederate Army during the War Between the States before then moving on to serve under Emperor Maximilian until the fall of the Mexican Empire (it should be noted that Ben originally fought in Mexico after breaking out of jail. He was being held on charges of killing a man).

Once Ben returned to Texas, his reputation as a protector of women was elevated again when he beat up his brother-in-law; the man had been abusing his pregnant wife—who happened to be Ben’s sister.

Ben was sentenced to four years’ hard labor for beating on his brother-in-law but was released two years later after the military tribunal used to try him was deemed illegal and he was pardoned by US President Ulysses S. Grant.

In 1879, he was hired by Bat Masterson to work as a gunman for the railways. The following year, he returned to Austin to open his own gambling hall. He was soon elected City Marshal on account of his honesty and quick use of a revolver when the need arose. In 1882, he was tried and acquitted after shooting a man over a game of cards. Ben resigned as marshal soon after but stayed in town making his living as a professional gambler.

Ben was shot in the back and murdered in 1884, reportedly in a revenge killing by the friends of the man he’d shot in 1882.

He left behind a wife and two children.

Ben's sister-in-law was the semi-famous Prostitute, Madam, and Dance Hall Girl Squirrel Tooth Alice.

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https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fth16

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/thompson.html

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1028/ben-thompson

83) Olympe de Gouges

French Feminist and Social Reformer

Born: 7 May 1748, Montauban, France

Died: 3 November 1793, Place de la Concorde, Paris, France

Original Name: Marie Gouze

Olympe married once and had a son but after her husband’s death she vowed never to marry again.

Her activism worked in everything from road improvement to orphaned children to unwed mothers to maternity hospitals to ending slavery to divorce rights for women, and she wrote proficiently about them all, usually in the form of theatrical plays.

After the Declaration of the Rights of Men and the [Male] Citizen was published Olympe responded—by writing the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen. In her writing she stated that women should be equal to men in all venues (shocking I know) and that children born of an unwed couple should be treated the same as children born of a married couple in terms of inheritance.

She defended the king and chose the wrong side in the French Revolution and was executed by the guillotine. It is said as she walked towards the blade she proclaimed, “Children of the Fatherland, you will avenge my death.”

Recent efforts to have her body re-interred in the Paris Panthéon have been thus far unsuccessful.

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Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White & Black, in a Young America by Catherine Kerrison

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History Edited By Bonnie G Smith

Sources:

Ascent of Woman, Documentary Series by Amanda Foreman (Episode 4--Revolution, is linked in this article. The entire series is available on YouTube).

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olympe-de-Gouges

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/01/feminist-olympe-de-gouges-pantheon

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/223229718/olympe-de_gouges

82) Douglas Pitt

82) Doug Pitt

“The Other Pitt”

Born: 2 November 1966, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Goodwill Ambassador for the United Republic of Tanzania; a position he has held since 2010.

Doug was also the first man to bike down Mount Kilimanjaro (with the government’s permission).

He is a businessman and philanthropist. Doug also founded Care to Learn, a nonprofit that helps provide for kids too poor to purchase school supplies and other necessities. He’s even served on the board of WorldServe International which has helped provide clean water to around one million Tanzanians.

Oh, and he’s the brother of crazy famous actor Brad Pitt.

Sources:

https://www.stlmag.com/news/how-doug-pitt-stepped-out-of-his-brothers-shadow/