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Penny Richards

PennamitePLR@mastodon.world

<p>art, history, chalk art, books, disability, education, parenthood, foodtrucks, thriftshopping, crochet, Wikipedia, Los Angeles; she/her</p><p>Current header: from the cover of &quot;The Story of the Typewriter&quot; (1923)</p><p>Current avatar: Me, fifty-something white woman, wearing a black beanie, black framed eyeglasses, and a large white mask</p><p>What is a Pennamite? A person from Pennsylvania; usually seen in the phrase &quot;Yankee-Pennamite Wars&quot;</p><p>I&#39;m also at pixelfed.social, same name, for photosharing.</p>

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    started a #wikipedia article on US research chemist turned exec director of the world&amp;#39;s largest children&amp;#39;s museum, Mildred Sartor Compton (1917-1993): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mildred_Sartor_Compton @wikiwomeninred #Indianapolis #Tulane #Michigan @EliLillyandCo #WomeninSTEM

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    started a #wikipedia article on US historian of science Rhoda Rappaport (1935-2009), taught @vassar from 1961 to 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_Rappaport @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM @cornelluniversi @gouchercollege #Bronx

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    Delightful essay on eighteenth-century Americans&amp;#39; bodies, by the wonderful Katherine Ott: https://www.si.edu/stories/how-did-it-feel-be-american-colonist-1776

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    started a #wikipedia article on #Cornell geologist Pearl G. Sheldon (1885-1966): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_G._Sheldon @wikiwomeninred #Geology #Seismology @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM

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    started a #wikipedia article on #Minnesota geologist, scientific #librarian Eunice Peterson (1900-1988): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunice_Peterson @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM #Drexel #geology #Buffalo #Paleontology

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    started a #wikipedia article on #Kentucky #Texas geologist Louise Barton Freeman Clarkson (1909-2004): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Barton_Freeman @wikiwomeninred #Geology #WomeninSTEM @UofChicago

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    started #wikipedia articles about two US bacteriologists: Edith Minot Twiss (1873-1925) was a botany professor and bacteriologist at Washburn College and @vassar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Minot_Twiss and Hilda Hempl Heller (1891-1964) was a zoologist, bacteriologist and science writer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilda_Hempl_Heller @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM @ucsfmedicine #Chicago #StanfordUniversity @fieldmuseum #Peru @washburnuniv

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    started #wikipedia articles about two US #medical researchers: Helen Louise Trembley (1905-1983) was an #entomologist who raised #mosquito colonies for #malaria research: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Louise_Trembley Miriam Olmstead Lipman (1885-1980) was a #bacteriologist who worked on #penicillin in the 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Olmstead_Lipman @wikiwomeninred #WomeninSTEM @wikimediadc

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    started a #wikipedia article on US educator Florence Curtis Hanson (1869-1951), exec. sec. of the @AFTUnion@union.place from 1926 to 1935: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Curtis_Hanson @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup #Labor #Labour #Chicago @vassar@bird.makeup #TeachersUnion

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    started a short #wikipedia article on Alice Maxwell Lamb Updegraff (1863-1952), assistant #astronomer at Washburn Observatory and the Argentine National Observatory in the 1880s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Maxwell_Lamb_Updegraff @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup #WomeninSTEM #Wisconsin

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    In 1922 #Boston, an amateur theatrical group debuted an original work, &quot;Dear Jane&quot;, one of the first fictional depictions of #JaneAusten; it was written by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley (1891-1971, TS Eliot&#39;s cousin) and directed by Virginia Tanner Green (1881-1950); both #Radcliffe alums, and both have new #wikipedia articles now. #Theatre #Austen @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Tanner_Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_Holmes_Hinkley

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    Front walk #chalk for #maythe4th is a little time hop to a theatre in 1977… #starwars

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    started a #Wikipedia article on US concert singer Charlotte Wallace Murray (1885-1982): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Wallace_Murray @wikiwomeninred@bird.makeup #BlackHistoryMonth @juilliardschool@bird.makeup @wikimediadc@bird.makeup