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Women who broke barriers from the year you were born Keri Wiginton FacebookTwitterEmail NASA on the Commons // Wikimedia Commons Women who broke barriers from the year you were born The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920 to give women the right to vote. Since then, women have been elected to government roles in increasing numbers, culminating in 2021 with the first woman sworn in as vice president of the United States. Politics isn t the only field where women have broken through barriers, of course. In 1944, Ann Baumgartner Carl became the first female test pilot. In 1953, aviator Jacqueline Cochran was the first woman to break the sound barrier. And in 1999, Lt. Col. Eileen Collins became the first woman astronaut to pilot and command a NASA space shuttle mission. Women also have been appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court and directed big-budget, award-winning Hollywood films. ....
From the column: Our capacity to do good should light our way through any dark times. Written By: Robert Allison | × Really, Time magazine? 2020 is the “Worst Year Ever?” I will take this year over any year before penicillin, indoor plumbing, electricity, and regular trash collection. We do not know what history will say of 2020. Here in the United States it will be a story of a virus and its consequences, wildfires and hurricanes, and a closely divided, hotly contested election. But most years have natural disasters. Contested elections are nothing new. We also have periodic epidemics, though the coronavirus is certainly an unusually dangerous and sudden threat. ....
Commentary: Robert Allison - Sorry, but 2020 not the worst year ever Robert Allison FacebookTwitterEmail Really, Time magazine? 2020 is the “Worst Year Ever?” I will take this year over any year before penicillin, indoor plumbing, electricity and regular trash collection. We do not know what history will say of 2020. Here in the United States it will be a story of a virus and its consequences, wildfires and hurricanes, and a closely divided, hotly contested election. But most years have natural disasters. Contested elections are nothing new. We also have periodic epidemics, though the coronavirus is certainly an unusually dangerous and sudden threat. ....
Allison: Sorry, Time Magazine, but 2020 is not the 'worst year ever' heraldandnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from heraldandnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Robert Allison Really, Time Magazine? 2020 is the “Worst Year Ever?” I will take this year over any year before penicillin, indoor plumbing, electricity and regular trash collection. We do not know what history will say of 2020. Here in the United States it will be a story of a virus and its consequences, wildfires and hurricanes, and a closely divided, hotly contested election. But most years have natural disasters. Contested elections are nothing new. We also have periodic epidemics, though the coronavirus is certainly an unusually dangerous and sudden threat. In January, we heard rumors of an illness connected to Chinese bats; by February it was striking Italy and Iran; in March everything in America shut down; and by November a vaccine had been created, for a virus not even identified when the year began. ....