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Treasures: Lost & Found-The Voynich Manuscript
Have you ever stumbled on a post or a video that made you stop what you were doing? Something amazing like a room made entirely of fossilized amber, stolen. A giant mysterious book in an unknown language, with uncanny-valley type illustrations. An unimaginable masterpiece found in an unassuming quiet old man’s home. I’m taking a […]
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Amelia Earhart
Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937, declared dead January 5, 1939) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, […]
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Marie Curie
Marie Skłodowska Curie (November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. She was the first woman to […]
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General Fisher
She wrote many books, mostly humorous while being open and caring about various issues. She was like a friend to so many people, whether they knew her in person or not. Carrie Fisher was a bad ass, plain and simple! She was an advocate for several causes, including women’s advocacy, animal rights, and LGBT causes. She […]
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Maya Angelou
(April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) Maya is one of my heroes for her activism and heartfelt poetry and writings. Read more here and read all her works that you can! I’ll leave this here because it’s especially poignant in 2020 for me: Still I Rise by Maya Angelou You may write me down in […]