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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) October 13 in 1862 Mary Kingsley was born. She was an English ethnographer, scientific writer, and explorer whose travels throughout West Africa and writing helped shape European perceptions of both African cultures and British colonialism.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Saturday) October 12 in 1864 Kamini Roy was born. She was a Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India. She was the first woman honors graduate in British India. She said that her children are her living poems.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Friday) October 11 in 1888 Harriet Boyd Hawes, was born. She was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor. She is uncovered a Minoan settlement and palace on the Aegean island of Crete.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Thursday) October 10 in 1870 Louise Mack was born. She was an Australian poet, journalist and novelist. She is most known for her writings and her involvement in World War I in 1914 as the first woman war correspondent in Belgium.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Tuesday) October 8 in 1899 Dorothy Donaldson Buchana was born. She was a Scottish civil engineer, and the first female member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, successfully passing the institution's admission examination in 1927.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Mon.) October 7 in 1907 Helen MacInnes was born. She was a Scottish-American writer of espionage novels. MacInnes wrote 21 espionage thrillers, four of which were later adapted as films. her first book, Above Suspicion (1941), was an immediate success.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Sunday) October 6 in 1917 Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She was an African American voting and women's rights activist, community organizer, and a leader in the civil rights movement. She was the co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party.

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Wish I didn’t have to know about these people but here’s a gift link so you can wish that too “All are members of an evangelical charismatic Christian church...Word of Faith Fellowship has for decades drawn controversy over its cultish insularity and its treatment of children and adult”

Trump’s Volunteers: ‘Beautiful Ladies’ From a Secretive Evangelical Church
Trump’s Volunteers: ‘Beautiful Ladies’ From a Secretive Evangelical Church

Women from an insular North Carolina church — with a history of “blasting” members judged sinners — are helping to stage the former president’s campaign events.

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Good Morning! On this day, (Sat) October 5 in 1858 Helen Churchill Candee was born. She was an American author, journalist, interior decorator, feminist, and geographer. Today, she is best known as a survivor of the sinking of RMS Titanic in 1912, and as a travel writer.

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