Women in Media and History

Harriet Tubman was an escaped slave who became a conductor on the Underground Railroad. She led dozens of enslaved people to freedom and later served as a scout and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War.

Barbara Walters was a pioneering broadcast journalist. She became the first woman to co-host a network news program, the Today show, and later became the first female co-anchor of an evening news program.

Rosie the Riveter is a cultural icon of the United States who represented the women who worked in factories and shipyards during World War II. She became a symbol of female economic power and patriotism.

Indra Nooyi served as the CEO of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018. She was consistently ranked among the world's most powerful women by Forbes during her tenure.

Marie Curie was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields: physics and chemistry.

Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1932, a feat that brought her international fame. While she was a pioneer in aviation, she was not the first to fly a plane or build one.

Elizabeth Blackwell graduated from Geneva Medical College in 1849, becoming the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Her achievement opened doors for women in the medical profession.

Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States in 1872, representing the Equal Rights Party. This occurred nearly 50 years before women gained the right to vote nationally.

Margaret Thatcher served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and was the first woman to hold the office. She was known for her conservative, free-market policies, often referred to as Thatcherism.

In The Princess and the Frog, the romantic firefly Raymond (referred to as Ramon in the question) is deeply in love with a star he names Evangeline, believing her to be another firefly. The other options are not the names of his beloved star.

Marie Curie was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 alongside her husband Pierre Curie and Henri Becquerel for their work on radioactivity, making her the first female recipient. She later won a second Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911, becoming the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

Grace Hopper popularized the terms 'bug' and 'debug' after her team discovered a physical moth stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947, which was causing the system to malfunction.

Florence Nightingale established the first professional training school for nurses at St Thomas' Hospital in London in 1860, laying the foundation of modern professional nursing.

Ruby Bridges became a symbol of the civil rights movement when, at age six, she became the first African American child to desegregate the all-white William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans on November 14, 1960.

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake's order to give up her seat in the 'colored' section to a white passenger, which sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott.