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Five Women Honored in Washington for Global Leadership from BaoNgoc92 547 days old

Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices, an international ...

From Forester to National Teacher of the Year from BaoNgoc92 547 days old

Michael Geisen, a middle-school science teacher in Oregon, will spend a year as an international spokesman for education. A science teacher from Prineville, ...

Five Women Honored in Washington for Global Leadership from BaoNgoc92 573 days old

Five women were honored last week in Washington for their efforts to increase the economic and political progress of women. Vital Voices, an international ...

40th Anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr’s Death from BaoNgoc92 581 days old

Forty years ago, African-American civil rights leader, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, was shot and killed. He died on April fourth, ...

Lou Gehrig, 1903-1941: The Great Baseball Player Considered Himself 'The Luckiest Man on the Face of the Earth' from BaoNgoc92 589 days old

A North American Major League baseball record was established in nineteen thirty-nine. The man who set it played in two thousand one hundred thirty ...

Junot Diaz from BaoNgoc92 589 days old

Junot Diaz is an American writer who was born in the Dominican Republic. He immigrated to the United States with his family when he was six years old. ...

Mary Kay Ash, 1918-2001: She Started a Skin Care Company That Has Sales of More Than Two Billion Dollars a Year from BaoNgoc92 599 days old

Mary Kay started a company in nineteen sixty-three with a five thousand dollar investment. Today, Mary Kay Cosmetics is an international company worth ...

Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961: One of the Most Famous Writers of the 20th Century from BaoNgoc92 602 days old

At twenty-five, Hemingway was living in Paris. He was a famous writer. But the end of his first marriage made him want to leave the place where he had ...

Shirley Chisholm, 1924-2005: The First Black Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress from BaoNgoc92 620 days old

Shirley Chisholm is best known as the first black woman elected to United States Congress and the first black woman to run for president of the United ...

A Rare Disease Can't Stop Will Downing From Making His Romantic Music from BaoNgoc92 621 days old

Music critics and fans of Will Downing know him as a skillful singer and songwriter. He is recognized as one of the leading singers of romantic, rhythm ...