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First Japanese woman and first Asian woman in space. STS-65 (Jul. 8, 1994) STS-95 (Oct. 29, 1998) 26 Yelena V. Kondakova Mar. 30, 1957 Russia: First Russian woman to travel in two different spacecraft, Soyuz TM-20 and STS-84; both were on trips to Mir Space Station. First Russian woman to travel on the Space Shuttle. Soyuz TM-20 (Oct. 3, 1994)
Since the statue's discovery, it has become one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture in the world. The Venus de Milo is believed to depict Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, whose Roman counterpart was Venus. Made of Parian marble, the statue is larger than life size, standing over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) high. The statue is ...
Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist.She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making as an Arabist due to her knowledge and contacts built up through extensive travels.
Carol Ann Yager (January 26, 1960 – July 18, 1994) was an American woman who was the heaviest woman ever recorded and one of the most severely obese people in history. Weight Published reports said Yager's peak weight was about 1,603 lb (727 kg; 114.5 st). [ 1 ]
Dracula Was a Woman: In Search of the Blood Countess of Transylvania. New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 978-0-07-045671-6. Raymond T. McNally (1931–2002) was a professor of Russian and East European History at Boston College; Thorne, Tony (1997). Countess Dracula. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-0-7475-2900-2. Penrose, Valentine (2006).
Second heaviest woman in history. Before her death, she lost around 325 kg (717 lb; 51 st 3 lb) in weight-loss treatment. [14] 1980–2017 (37) Michael Hebranko United States: M 499 kg 1,100 lb 78 st 8 lb 1.83 m 6 ft 0 in 149 1953–2013 (60) Patrick Deuel [15] United States: M 486 kg 1,071 lb 76 st 7 lb 1.70 m 5 ft 7 in 168
Phyllis and Aristotle, a fictional tale written in the 13th century, as depicted by artist Giovanni Buonconsiglio in the early 1500s. A dominatrix (/ ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ k s / DOM-in-AY-triks; pl. dominatrixes or dominatrices / ˌ d ɒ m ɪ ˈ n eɪ t r ɪ s iː z, ˌ d ɒ m ɪ n ə ˈ t r aɪ s iː z / DOM-in-AY-triss-eez, DOM-in-ə-TRY-seez), or domme, is a woman who takes the ...
One such woman, Marina the Monk, died 508, accompanied her father to a monastery and adopted a monk's habit as a disguise. When falsely accused of getting a woman pregnant, she patiently bore the accusation rather than revealing her identity to clear her name, an action praised in medieval books of saints' lives as an example of humble forbearance.