1007: Kiya Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten Born: Possibly Mitanni (Present-day Syria) Died: Akhetaten, Ancient Egypt (Present-day Amarna, Egypt) Very little is known about Kiya, especially in contrast with Akhenaten’s much more famous and principal wife Nefertiti. Some scholars believe Kiya was from the Mitanni civilization, located in present-day Syria and Turkey, based on a known…
A meme posted to Tumblr about Susanna Salter’s story. 1006: Susanna Salter The First Elected Female Mayor in United States History Born: 2 March 1860, Belmont County, Ohio, United States of America Died: 17 March 1961, Norman, Oklahoma, United States of America Susanna served Argonia, Kansas after being elected in 1887. She was voted in…
Over the Christmas 2020 weekend, I hit the road once again, this time with my mom, dad, and brother with me. Okay, to be fair, my dad drove while he and my brother took my mom and I out to the Historic Pinal Cemetery. This graveyard is located about forty miles from our house, just…
1005: Megan Leavey Former United States Marine Corporal in a K-9 Unit Born: 28 October 1983, Valley Cottage, New York, United States of America Megan is famous for her fight to adopt her K-9 unit partner Rex after he was retired from the military. Megan joined the US Marine Corps after the terrorist attacks on…
1004: Frances Griffiths Subject of Some of the Famous Cottingley Fairies Photographs Born: 4 September 1907, Bradford, England, United Kingdom Died: 11 July 1986, Belfast, Ireland, United Kingdom It is hard to believe it now with the advent of photoshop technology, but the Cottingly Photographs were so convincing for their time Sir Arthur Conan Doyle…
1003: Turhan Hatice Sultan From Victim to One of the Most Powerful Women in the Islamic World Born: c.1627, Present-day Ukraine or Possibly Russia Died: 4 August 1683, Present-day Edirne, Turkey Turhan was kidnapped at the age of twelve, and taken from her homeland to Constantinople, where she was given to the Sultan of the…
“I am reproached (what a terrible crime!) to have lived alone, spending my life with cats, to have felt persecuted! It is based on accusations that I have been imprisoned for five years and a half like a criminal, deprived of freedom, deprived of food, fire and the most basic essentials.” (Letter Camille wrote to…
1001: Darlene Cates Actress Unafraid to Talk About Her Weight Loss Journey Born: 13 December 1947, Borger, Texas, United States of America Died: 26 March 2017, Forney, Texas, United States of America Original Name: Rita Darlene Guthrie Darlene is most remembered for portraying Bonnie Grape (better known as Mama) in the timeless film What’s Eating…
1000: Claressa Shields Middleweight Boxer, MMA Fighter, and Olympian Born: 17 March 1995, Flint, Michigan, United States of America Claressa has competed in the 2012 and 2016 Summer Games. In 2020, she announced she was also going to begin fighting in MMA Matches. As of December 2020, she is undefeated in pro-boxing matches and has…
999: Alexandra Scott Founder of Alex’s Lemonade Stand Born: 18 January 1996, Manchester, Connecticut, United States of America Died: 1 August 2004, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, United States of America The goal of Alex’s Lemonade Stand is to raise money for children’s cancer research and treatment. Alex opened her first stand in her front yard when she…