Tag Archives: history
The history of Thanksgiving
25 abandoned places
Angela Davies
Vera Rubin – astronomy warrior
When Vera Rubin arrived at Palomar Observatory in 1965, they told her she couldnāt stay.
āWe donāt have a ladiesā room,ā they said.
So she cut out a paper skirt, taped it over the little stick man on the bathroom door, and replied:
āThere. Now you do.ā
Then she walked ināand stayed in astronomy until the day she retired in 2014.
That was Vera Rubin: sharp, steady, and unstoppable.
Princeton refused her for grad school because she was a woman.
Her work? It shattered everything we thought we knew about space when Vera discovered dark matter.
āDonāt let anyone keep you down for silly reasons like who you are,ā she once said.
The oldest bridge
Cyclops or elephants?
Reading aloud
Making history so young…
Biscuit Stonehenge
Roman road
Land of the free?
Baby carrying hood
Freedom
Harriet Tubman escaped slavery and helped escape hundreds of other enslaved people. She’s a hero!
Amazing woman
Warrior queen
Ancient humour
Inventor
Prehistorical art
Remembrance Day
How could they?!
Time surprise
No accounting for tastes…
Killer vampire woman
Valentine’s Day history
The origins of Groundhog Day
oldest continuous civilisation
