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	Facts on women candidates and elected officials
		Susanna Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas B the first woman mayor in the country.
		She was the first Black woman to serve in a presidential cabinet and the first woman to hold two different cabinet positions.
		Representative Loretta Sanchez (D-CA) was first elected to the House in 1996.
	www.cawp.rutgers.edu /Facts/Officeholders/firsts.html (2316 words)

	Women First in Seattle Government
		She was the first woman at City Light to be licensed by the State of Washington as a Professional Electrical Engineer, the first female engineering Manager; and the first female engineering Director.
		She was the first woman director of the Office of Management and Budget, serving from 1992 to 1994, and the first woman Superintendent of Seattle Water and Seattle Public Utilities.
		The first woman to wear a Seattle Police Department uniform was Sylvia Hunsicker who was hired by the Police Department in 1915 and began wearing a uniform in the early 1920s.
	www.cityofseattle.net /html/women_first.htm (3047 words)

	First Woman to...
		In 1976, the first woman to compete in a NASCAR Winston Cup superspeedway stock car race On May 7, 1977, Guthrie was the first woman to race in the Indy 500, she also set an Indianapolis 500 qualifying lap-speed record.
		She was also the first woman to qualify for the Daytona 500 finishing 12 in 1977.
		She was the first driver, male or female, to repeat as NHRA (National Hot Rod Association) Winston World Champion and the first driver to win the Championship three times: 1977, 1980, and 1982.
	www.menstuff.org /womenracers/firstwomanto.html (1341 words)

	Famous Firsts by American Women — Infoplease.com
		In 1775, Goddard became the first woman postmaster in the country (in Baltimore), and in 1777 she became the first printer to offer copies of the Declaration of Independence that included the signers' names.
		Mary Davenport-Engberg is the first woman to conduct a symphony orchestra, in Bellingham, Washington.
		Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/womensfirsts1.html (1737 words)

	Eve (Bible) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This first woman was identified in the Midrash as Lilith, a figure elsewhere described as a night demon.
		And Adam was not seduced, but the woman being seduced, was in the transgression", because Eve had tempted Adam to eat of the fatal fruit, some early Fathers of the Church held her and all subsequent women to be the first sinners, and especially responsible for the Fall.
		First: The serpent tempted her before she thought of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and suffered herself to be persuaded that not well understood his meaning.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eve_(first_woman) (3971 words)

	The First Woman by Gardiner Spring
		Woman is often artful; I have sometimes thought that she was more artful than man, because when her heart is strongly enlisted, it is difficult for her not to encourage a little “pious fraud.” Those there are who affect to overbear and depress by their superiority.
		Woman’s heart is so formed, that it is bound up in the heart of her husband; and even though she be not a lover of God, if she be affectionate, beloved, and respected, her highest wish, and her most delightful employment are to render her husband respected, useful, and happy.
		Woman’s object is to please; and sooner or later she will learn that she cannot do this with becoming grace and dignity, and cannot do it permanently, where her society is not instructive.
	www.shilohonline.org /articles/spring/5_firstthings.htm (6873 words)

	Factoid Archive ... Did you Know?
		The first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton (D-GA).
		The first woman of color in Congress was Representative Patsy Mink (D-HI) who served from 1965-1977 and again from 1990 until her death in 2002.
		Smith – also the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate – had campaigned briefly for the post when the Senate was not in session.
	www.cawp.rutgers.edu /factoidarchive.html (1700 words)

	Tereshkova
		Svetlana Savitskaya became the second Russian woman in space in 1982, and the first woman to walk in space in 1984.
		He believed it was their patriotic duty to beat the Americans in putting a woman in space, and he wanted to find a female cosmonaut who would be a dedicated Communist agitator in the same class as Gagarin or Titov.
		First woman in space, and the only Russian woman to go into space until Svetlana Savitskaya 19 years later.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/terhkova.htm (14351 words)

	The first bionic woman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Last summer, surgeons took the first step by rewiring the skin above her left breast so that when the area is stimulated by impulses from the bionic arm, the skin sends a message to the region of her brain that feels "hand.
		Claudia Mitchells gets a rebirth as she becomes the first woman, and the fourth human, to arm herself with the ultimate thought-controlled bionic arm, a brainchild of physicians and engineers at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago.
		It's mind-blowing, and here's an excerpt: Mitchell, who lives in Ellicott City, is the fourth person -- and first woman -- to receive a "bionic" arm, which allows her to control parts of the device by her thoughts alone.
	tailrank.com /posts/562949953957319/The_first_bionic_woman (567 words)

	Native American Legends - The First World - Navajo
		The creatures of the First World are thought of as the Mist People; they had no definite form, but were to change to men, beasts, birds, and reptiles of this world.
		Where they came together First Woman was formed, and with her the yellow corn.
		First Woman saw that First Man had a crystal for a fire, and she saw that it was stronger than her turquoise fire.
	www.firstpeople.us /FP-Html-Legends/TheFirstWorld-Navajo.html (956 words)

	FT June/July 1999: The First Modern Woman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This first modern American woman wanted to be more modern than her mother, a quiet woman who wore modestly printed cotton dresses and followed a weekly routine of household chores: laundering clothes on Mondays, shopping on Wednesdays, baking on Fridays.
		In her church work, the first modern American girl saw mostly women and children, since the male leaders ran the church but did not study or teach in it.
		The first modern American girl, now a modern American woman with two small children, thought of divorce but stayed married, in part for the children but also because she was still afraid to live alone.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9906/opinion/white.html (1980 words)

	First Woman on a Corporate Board
		She became a savvy business woman in the soft drink industry and was the first woman to serve as a director of a major American corporation when she was appointed in 1934 to the board of directors of the Coca-Cola Co. She remained on the board for nearly 20 years.
		She was the first woman to serve on the board of directors of a major American corporation, and pioneered in frozen foods."
		LYDIA MOSS BRADLEY was the first female member of an American national bank board in the United States when she joined the Board of Directors of Peoria's First National Bank in 1875.
	www.virtualchase.com /ask_answer/first_woman.html (563 words)

	First Hispanic woman grad credits academy for her success (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WASHINGTON -- Linda Garcia Cubero, the first Hispanic woman graduate of a service academy, said the Air Force Academy had a tremendous effect on her career and her success in the Air Force and in the corporate environment.
		Cubero was the first woman in that state to receive an appointment to any military academy.
		The intent is to strip you down as individuals and form you into first a follower and then learn how to be a leader and how to be a part of a team.
	www.af.mil /news/story.asp?storyID=123008739 (1167 words)

	First Woman to Fly the English Channel, 1912 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She was a remarkable woman endowed with natural beauty, flamboyance, a penchant for adventure and a flare for self-promotion.
		She began her lessons in May 1911 at a flying school on Long Island becoming the first woman to begin flight training.
		On the return leg, the crowd watched in horror as the plane suddenly lurched and first the manager and then Harriet were flung to their deaths in the harbor 500 feet below.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /quimby.htm (1193 words)

	JWA - Ray Frank—The First Woman Rabbi?
		Not content with the novelty of Frank's position as "the first woman since Deborah to preach in a synagogue," the press began to speculate about her rabbinical aspirations.
		Although headlines began to refer to Frank, incorrectly, as the first woman rabbi, and she was reportedly offered several pulpits, Frank insisted that she had never had any desire for ordination.
		Opposition to woman rabbis remained strong, and not until 1972 would Sally Priesand become the first woman rabbi ordained by a theological seminary.
	www.jwa.org /exhibits/wov/frank/firstwoman.html (398 words)

	First Class Woman \| Upgrade your travel style. Upgrade your life.
		First Class is more than an airplane seat assignment or a primo train ticket—it's a state of mind.
		First Class is a way of being, of interacting with the world.
		First Class is not the "ugly American" screaming, "You speak English?!" at the Moroccan street vendor.
	www.firstclasswoman.com (190 words)

	Lesley Visser
		Lesley Visser added another first to her long and prestigious trailblazing career, as the first woman to be recognized by the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
		She is almost always associated with the word "first." She was the first woman sportscaster to carry the Olympic Torch, being honored as a "pioneer and standard-bearer" for her more than 30 years of covering sports, nearly half of them at CBS.
		She was the first female NFL beat writer while at the Boston Globe in the mid-1970's and later became the first female NFL color analyst for CBS Radio in 1999.
	www.lesleyvisser.com (1083 words)

	First Woman President
		The election of Angela Merkel evidently defied all the odds that sought to make her not electable because she was not sufficiently feminine. These were the strongest odds cast her way by the media. But evidently not by the detemination of the voters.
		To the extent that neither woman, not having the legacy of First Lady, would have secured for her campaign the level of media attention accorded so far.
		Take into consideration the current presidential campaign by a woman who is raising massive sums of money. This is not her way of building trust as much as it is how she is building defenses in a campaign environment where the media is intent on controversy.
	www.firstwomanpresident.org (1759 words)

	Creation of First Man and First Woman (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In all First Man and First Woman had five pairs of twins, and all except the first became couples who had children.
		In four days after the last twins were born, the gods came again and took First Man and First Woman away to the eastern mountain, dwelling place of the gods.
		Keeping their first marriages secret, the brothers now married women of the Mirage People and the sisters married men of the Mirage People.
	www.angelfire.com /ca/Indian/FirstManFirstWoman.html (901 words)

	The first bionic woman
		the Washington Post reports that a new life is within reach for the first woman with bionic arm (free registration required).
		Mitchell and the first person to get a bionic arm -- [Jesse Sullivan,] a power-line technician who lost both arms to a severe electric shock -- will demonstrate their prostheses today at a news event in Washington.
		In preparation for the bionic arm, Kuiken and his surgical colleagues first re-create a biological control panel for a hand on the amputee's chest.
	www.primidi.com /2006/09/14.html (556 words)

	CNN.com - Woman 'has first face transplant' - Nov 30, 2005
		The woman was in "excellent" condition and that the transplanted organs look "normal," the statement said.
		The grafted tissue came from another woman who had been declared brain-dead, with the consent of her family, the statement said.
		The woman will not look identical to her donor even once the swelling has gone down.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/HEALTH/11/30/france.face (995 words)

	First Woman To ...
		She was the first woman to serve as governor of a U.S. state.
		The first woman took to the stage in 1660 and a woman sat in the director's chair as early as 1896.
		And incidentally, a close relative of mine was one of the first orchestral conductors: Frederique Petrides.
	www.squidoo.com /firstwomanto (1438 words)

	EDITH WILSON, OUR FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT?
		The question of a woman president is not so much whether we will have one as it is when we will have one.
		As early as 1964, a woman (Margaret Chase Smith) was taken seriously as a presidential contender.
		Often called the "first woman president" or the "other 28th president," Edith Galt Wilson virtually ran the nation for over 6 months.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/presidents_and_first_ladies/27897 (438 words)

	Maryland Resident Becomes First 'Bionic Woman' - Health (Site not responding. Last check: )
		WASHINGTON -- Claudia Mitchell is being called the bionic woman, a nickname she earned when she became the first woman in the world to get a bionic arm.
		The Ellicott City woman lost her left arm in a motorcycle accident several years ago, but she now has the most advanced prosthetic in the world.
		She and the first bionic man, Jesse Sullivan, showed off their new limbs in D.C. on Thursday.
	www.nbc4.com /health/9852206/detail.html (622 words)

	Women Mathematicians
		Sana Raoof, a senior at Jericho High School, Jericho, NY, received a 2008 Intel Young Scientist Award and a $50,000 scholarship from the Intel Foundation for her mathematics project on "Computation of the Alexander-Conway Polynomial on the Chord Diagrams of Singular Knots." She used mathematical knot theory to investigate and solve problems in biochemistry.
		Maria Klawe, who received her B.S. and PhD in mathematics from the University of Alberta, was inaugurated as the first woman President of Harvey Mudd College on February 2, 2007.
		While a student at Duke University, Melanie was the first American woman, and second woman overall, to win the Putnam competition—a prestigious math competition for college students.
	www.agnesscott.edu /lriddle/women/women.htm (1237 words)

	People Doing Science: Elizabeth Blackwell: The First Woman Doctor
		To be the first woman to graduate from medical school in the United States, Elizabeth Blackwell had to be brilliant, diplomatic, tenacious, and tough as nails
		Elizabeth Blackwell eventually became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States.
		At Geneva, she took all the classes her male classmates took, including anatomy and physiology lectures, and she dissected male cadavers, which was considered outrageous behavior for a woman of the Victorian era.
	science-education.nih.gov /snapshots.nsf/story?openform&pds~Elizabeth_Blackwell_Doctor (913 words)

	WER: Wisconsin's Women Lawyers--Past and Present
		When the girl lawyer tries her first case the jury will smile affably upon her, and so perhaps will the Judge; but there is one person who will not smile, and that is the opposing counsel, who objects to a woman adversary.
		There are some lawyers who go so far as to say that given a woman plaintiff and a woman attorney and the defense might just as well lie down if the case be before a jury.
		Born Rhoda Lavinia Goodell in Utica, New York, in 1839, Miss Goodell moved with her parents to Janesville in 1871 after having been an active participant in the anti-slavery movement, a teacher, and an editorial writer for Harper's Bazaar.
	www.library.wisc.edu /etext/WIReader/WER1106.html (562 words)

	First Woman Sniper School Graduate
		Senior Airman Jennifer Donaldson from the Illinois Air National Guard has become the first woman to be trained at the only U.S. military sniper school open to females.
		She was graduated April 14, 2001 from the National Guard Sniper School's first countersniper course for Air Guard security force personnel.
		She and her partner, Staff Sgt. Frank Tallman from Kentucky, were the first team to complete and pass a 2.7-mile land navigation course through thick woods that day.
	userpages.aug.com /captbarb/sniper.html (687 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1921-1940 > First Woman Senator
		On October 3, 1922, Georgia's Democratic Governor Thomas Hardwick made history by appointing the first woman to a Senate vacancy.
		"The seats seemed to be fully occupied, and there appeared in the picture the figure of a woman who had evidently entered without sending in her card.
		Talmadge, John E. "The Seating of the First Woman in the United States Senate." Georgia Review 10 (Summer 1956): 168-74.
	www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/First_Woman_Senator_Appointed.htm (437 words)

	Clara Shortridge Foltz - First Woman
		Admitted to the Bar in September, 1878, the first woman lawyer in California, she initially made her name as a jury lawyer and then went on to fifty years of successful practice.
		She was leaving for Sacramento in January to be a clerk, the modern equivalent of counsel, to the Assembly Judiciary Committee, the first woman to hold this lawyer's job.
		The first woman to graduate from Hastings was Mary McHenry in 1882.
	www.stanford.edu /group/WLHP/clara/first.woman.html (16767 words)

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