Posts tagged women's history month
“The Other Washington Monument”: Alice Roosevelt Longworth

As the only daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt and his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt — Alice Roosevelt Longworth certainly kept her father’s hands full. Known for her sharp wit and eccentric antics, “Princess Alice” was quite the celebrity during her teenage years. So much so that her father once said: ““I can be President of the United States or I can attend to Alice. I cannot possibly do both!”

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Genius on the Silver Screen: How Hedy Lamarr Gave Us Wi-Fi

The glamor of old Hollywood is a familiar image to most of us. We can conjure pictures dazzling starlets and debonaire actors at the drop of a hat. However, when think of the actors and actresses who graced the silver screen in the mid-twentieth century, they think of them simply actors and nothing more. One such figure is Austrian-born actress Hedy Lamarr, who possessed just as much intelligence as she did beauty and talent.

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