(Encyclopedia) Yosano, AkikoYosano, Akikoäˈkēˈkō yōˈsäˈnō [key], 1878–1942, Japanese poet, activist, and critic. Best known for passionately romantic verse, she infused the classic tanka poetic form…
(Encyclopedia) Carlyle, Jane Baillie Welsh, 1801–66, English woman of letters; wife of Thomas Carlyle, whom she married in 1826. She possessed a genius for letter writing, manifest in the volumes of…
(Encyclopedia) Caraway, Hattie WyattCaraway, Hattie Wyattkărˈəwāˌ [key], 1878–1950, U.S. senator (1932–45), b. near Bakerville, Tenn. In 1932 she was appointed to fill the unexpired Senate term from…
(Encyclopedia) Blackwell, Alice Stone, 1857–1950, American feminist, b. East Orange, N.J., grad. Boston Univ., 1881; daughter of Henry Brown Blackwell and Lucy Stone. She was an editor (1881–1917) of…
(Encyclopedia) Lagarde, Christine (Christine Madeleine Odette Lallouette Lagarde)Lagarde, Christinekrĭstēnˈ lägärdˈ [key], 1956–, French lawyer and government official, the first woman to head the…
(Encyclopedia) chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or chorionic villus biopsy (CVB)chorionic villus samplingkōrˌē-ŏnˈĭk, kôrˌ– [key], diagnostic procedure in which a sample of chorionic villi from the…
(Encyclopedia) Nightingale, Florence, 1820–1910, English nurse, the founder of modern nursing, b. Florence, Italy. Her life was dedicated to the care of the sick and war wounded and to the promotion…
(Encyclopedia) Palin, Sarah HeathPalin, Sarah Heathpāˈlĭn [key], 1964–, U.S. politician, b. Sandpoint, Idaho, as Sarah Louise Heath, grad. Univ. of Idaho (B.S. 1987). Her family moved to Alaska not…
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