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    Aletta Henriëtte Jacobs (Dutch pronunciation: [aːˈlɛtaː ɦɑ̃ːriˈɛtə ˈjaːkɔps]; 9 February 1854 – 10 August 1929) was a Dutch physician and women's suffrage...
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    Albert Zondervan. He was a teacher in Hoogezand- Sappemeer at the Dr. Aletta Jacobs College from 1968 till 2005. He died in May 2010 in Istanbul. (in Dutch)...
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    Millicent Fawcett (category Newnham College, Cambridge)
    higher education, as a governor of Bedford College, London (now Royal Holloway) and co-founding Newnham College, Cambridge in 1875. In 2018, a century after...
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  • has an affair with a British officer's wife Aletta Jacobs: The Highest Aspiration (Dutch: Aletta Jacobs: Het Hoogste Streven) (1995) – Dutch biographical...
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    where they met Aletta Jacobs, a Dutch pacifist, feminist, and suffragist. Rediscovered historical footage shows Addams, Hamilton, and Jacobs before the Brandenburg...
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  • Aylwin, 96, Chilean lawyer, comptroller general of the republic (1997–2002). Aletta Bezuidenhout, 74, Kenyan-born South African actress (In My Country, Paljas)...
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    of Medicine | Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell". Nlm.nih.gov. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2011-04-18. "Ladies' College". UCL Bloomsbury...
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  • (1868–1943) at the invitation of the Dutch pacifist, feminist and suffragist Aletta Jacobs to protest the war then raging in Europe, and to suggest ways to prevent...
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    woman to obtain a medical degree in 1880 from University of Zurich. Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) was the first woman to complete a university course in the...
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  • mathematician. August 10 Pierre Fatou (born 1878), French mathematician. Aletta Jacobs (born 1854), Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist. August 27...
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  • Netherlands, Aletta H. Jacobs, the first Dutch female doctor, and Wilhelmina Drucker led discussion and action for reproductive rights. Jacobs imported diaphragms...
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    conference to be held in The Hague. Coordinated by Mia Boissevain, Aletta Jacobs and Rosa Manus, the congress, which opened on 28 April 1915 was attended...
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    Anna Howard Shaw (category Albion College alumni)
    go to college and follow the path that she felt was God's will for her life. Despite her family's disapproval, Shaw's drive to attend college became...
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    Short historical film showing Jane Addams in Berlin in 1915, on her peace mission with Aletta Jacobs and Alice Hamilton. Jane Addams on Nobelprize.org...
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    Clara Barton, Harriet Tubman, Mary Harris Jones, Olive Schreiner, Aletta Jacobs, Emmeline Pankhurst, Ida B. Wells, Käthe Kollwitz, Muriel Lester, Katharine...
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  • women's suffrage movement in the Netherlands was led by three women: Aletta Jacobs, Wilhelmina Drucker and Annette Versluys-Poelman. In 1889, Wilhelmina...
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  • Johannesburg with its discovering observatory is located DMP · 1193 1194 Aletta 1931 JG Wife of discoverer Cyril Jackson DMP · 1194 1195 Orangia 1931 KD...
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  • February 9 Edward Carson, Irish Unionist MP and barrister (d. 1935) Aletta Jacobs, Dutch physician and women's suffrage activist (d. 1929) February 16...
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    Kenneth Spencer Research Library (category University and college academic libraries in the United States)
    Michael; Soutar, Joan; Worth, Carol (Spring–Summer 1976). "The (Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs) Gerritsen Collection the University of Kansas". Feminist Studies...
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  • Michael; Soutar, Joan; Worth, Carol (Spring–Summer 1976). "The (Dr. Aletta H. Jacobs) Gerritsen Collection the University of Kansas". Feminist Studies...
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  • century, many initiatives by feminists sprung up in The Netherlands. Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) requested and obtained as the first woman in the Netherlands...
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    Noeleen Heyzer (category Alumni of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge)
    numerous awards and prizes, including: Hall of Fame, Singapore, March 2014 Aletta Jacobs Prize (2014), University of Groningen Plaque of Recognition on World...
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    Iowa Agricultural College (now Iowa State University) in Ames, Iowa. Catt's father was initially reluctant to allow her to attend college, but he relented...
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  • 31 October 2014. Retrieved 27 June 2015. Kelly, Linda (22 October 2014). "Dr. Widad Akrawi Receives the Pfeffer Peace Award". Archived from the original...
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  • writer, social democrat and feminist Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) – physician and women's suffrage activist Charlotte Jacobs Jeltje Kemper Selma Meyer Anette...
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    – feminist Mietje Hoitsema (1847–1934) Cornélie Huygens (1848–1902) Aletta Jacobs (1854–1929) – Chairperson of Vereeniging voor Vrouwenkiesrecht, 1903–1919...
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    Women in Afghanistan: Lessons Learnt for the Future" (PDF). Dr. Huma Ahmed-Ghosh. Aletta, Institute for Women's History. May 2003. Retrieved 2 December...
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    Steinke, Jocelyn; Lapinski, Maria Knight; Crocker, Nikki; Zietsman-Thomas, Aletta; Williams, Yaschica; Evergreen, Stephanie Higdon; Kuchibhotla, Sarvani (2007)...
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  • first family planning clinic was opened in 1882 in the Netherlands by Aletta Jacobs. Activists in the early 1900s, such as Margaret Sanger, allowed contraception...
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    March 14 – Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar, Iranian king (d. 1797) March 12 – Aletta Haniel, German business person (d. 1815) April 28 – Henry Dundas, British...
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