November 30, 2009
Born in Adams, Massachusetts, Susan B. Anthony was a nearly 70-year veteran in the fight for women’s rights.
She began organizing for equal pay as a teenage schoolteacher and in the 1850s became a national leader for woman suffrage. She lectured widely in the United States and Europe and wrote a three-volume history of the suffrage [...]
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November 30, 2009
American sled-dog racer and trainer who dominated her sport for more than a decade. She won the challenging Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in Alaska four times.
Butcher began to train dogs at age 16. By 1972 she had moved to Colorado, where she attended Colorado State University in Fort Collins and raced a group of [...]
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