“It was a day that everyone celebrated because everyone had somebody in the war, and they were coming home. So it was a wonderful gift finally to end this war. It was a long war, and it cost a lot.” 588: Greta Zimmer Friedman Female Subject of the VJ Day Kiss in Times Square Photograph…
“Even when I was 5 years old, people would say to my parents, ‘What’s with that kid and her memory? She remembers the last time I was here and everything that happened,’ “They’d call me Little Miss Memory, the Memory Kid, or UNIVAC. You know, the old-fashioned computer. “If someone [in my family] wanted to…
586: Carrie Ann Inaba Choreographer, Dancer, Singer, Actress, and Television Personality Born: 5 January 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States of America Carrie Ann is most well known for being a judge on Dancing With the Stars (US). She also appeared on episodes of In Living Color and started her career as a singer in Japan….
“I was never allowed to go over to any of my friends’ houses when I was little, because I was a bad influence. None of their parents liked me and my own parents were scared to death of me— and for me.” 585: Alecia Moore Singer Known Professionally as P!nk Born: 8 September 1979, Doylestown,…
“I should have been relentless at saving [our marriage], as relentless as June was at destroying it.” 584: Vivian Liberto Distin Johnny Cash’s First Wife Born: 23 April 1934, San Antonia, Texas, United States of America Died: 24 May 2005, Ventura, California, United States of America Vivian is also the mother of his daughters Roseanne,…
583: Ulrika Eleanora Stålhammar Female Soldier During the Great Northern War Born: c.1683, Svenarum, Sweden Died: 16 February 1733, Hultsjö, Sweden As a child, Ulrika was a persistent tomboy and hated womanly ideals. She ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage. In 1713, she joined the army as a man and the next…
“Yes, we want to be inclusive of everyone [and respect that] everyone comes in all different shapes and sizes. That nobody should ever be body-shamed or fat-shamed or excluded and that everyone is equally deserving and should feel equally valuable. But obesity in itself is not something that should be glamorized. But we’ve become so…
581: Deborah Sampson Gannett Revolutionary War Soldier Born: 17 December 1760, Plympton, The Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present-day Plympton, Massachusetts, United States of America) Died: 29 April 1827, Sharon, Massachusetts, United States of America Deborah is also the first known American woman to dress up as a man to fight in war. She enlisted in the…
These are the entries born in the modern country of Lebanon, or the geographical land on which Lebanon now sits. Entries: Jezebel, Biblical Queen Marina the Monk, Catholic Saint
580: Marina the Monk Female Monk (Now Saint) Lived: Fifth Century AD, Byzantine Empire (Present-day Lebanon) Also Known As: Mariam There are actually six women who fit this description and two of them are likely to have actually lived but for this specific entry we are looking at Marina the Monk of the monastery in…