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    Pocahontas (redirect from Mrs John Rolfe)
    or Purchas His Pilgrimes. 1625. Repr. Glasgow: James MacLehose, 1905–1907. vol. 19 Rolfe, John. Letter to Thomas Dale. 1614. Repr. in Jamestown Narratives...
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    years before. After Cline, Hilda Hensley gave birth to Samuel Jr. (called John) and Sylvia Mae. Besides being called "Virginia" in her childhood, Cline...
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    including those for astronauts Alan Shepard, the first American in space, and John Glenn, the first American in orbit, and rendezvous paths for the Apollo Lunar...
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    through a number of failed marriages in her earlier adult years. She married John Randolph Pinkett, either her third or fourth husband, when she was 30 years...
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    daughter of Elinor Tullie (née Hene), a homemaker and part-time writer, and John Martin Couric Jr., a public relations executive and news editor at The Atlanta...
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    "Rebecca" following her conversion to Christianity the previous year) married John Rolfe, the first English settler in Virginia to cultivate tobacco as an export...
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  • (1916–2004), Arlington County, president of Marymount University John-Geline MacDonald Bowman (1890–1946), Richmond, business executive Grace Brewster Murray...
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    National Women's History Museum. 2017. O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Grace Hopper", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of...
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    a boardinghouse beginning in 1791. Before his death, John had arranged Madison's marriage to John Todd, a Philadelphia lawyer. According to Allgor, Madison...
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    Francis David Langhorne Astor (1912–2001) Michael Langhorne Astor (1916–1980) John Jacob Astor VII "Jakie" (1918–2000) Constance Markievicz, a member of Sinn...
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    Their Legacy in American Music. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-4382-X. Cash, John Carter. Anchored in Love: An Intimate Portrait of June Carter Cash (Nashville...
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    Association Award (2005) Child Magazine Best Children's Book of the Year (2005) John Henry "Pop" Lloyd Humanitarian Award (2005) ALC Lifetime Achievement Award...
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    encampments when fighting stalled each winter. Her only surviving child, John, died from a camp illness during the war. After the war ended in 1783, Washington...
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    Spanish–American War Ava Lowle Willing First Lady Edith Roosevelt Lawrence, John H. "Frances Benjamin Johnston". Encyclopedia of Louisiana. Louisiana Endowment...
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    Keckley, which he granted to her free of charge. Ringold, a member of General John Mason's family from Virginia, also vouched that Keckley was a free woman...
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    Cather had six more children after Willa: Roscoe, Douglass, Jessica, James, John, and Elsie.: 5–7  Cather was closer to her brothers than to her sisters whom...
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    Tomorrow Is Another Day: The Woman Writer in the South, 1859-1936, 1981. MacDonald, Edgar and Tonette Blond Inge. Ellen Glasgow: A Reference Guide (1897–1981)...
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    campus orchard. In December 2010, Faust and Stanford University president John L. Hennessy co-wrote an editorial in support of passage of the DREAM Act...
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    23 Judge was secretly placed aboard the Nancy, a ship piloted by Captain John Bowles and bound for Portsmouth, New Hampshire. She may have thought she...
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    William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, John Crowe Ransom, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Wilbur, John Ashbery, W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand and...
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    Darden was promoted to a position as aerospace engineer by her superior John V. Becker. She had nearly been fired earlier. Her early findings in the 1960s...
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    father was John Van Lew and Eliza Baker was her mother. Her maternal grandfather was Hilary Baker, mayor of Philadelphia from 1796 to 1798. John Van Lew...
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    accounts of Mary Draper Ingles' capture and escape, one written by her son John Ingles,: 86–88  and the other by Letitia Preston Floyd,: 79–109  an acquaintance...
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    Mary Johnston Barbara Johns Powell Lee Smith Mary Belvin Wade 2006 Kate Waller Barrett Marie Majella Berg John-Geline MacDonald Bowman Benita Fitzgerald-Brown...
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