Former SCOTUS Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who became First Woman on the Supreme Court has died at age 93.
During a crucial period in American law — when abortion, affirmative action, sex discrimination and voting rights were on the docket — she was the most powerful woman in the country.
Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court and its most powerful justice for much of her tenure,
December has to be the most significant month of the year. Think about theholidays and therefore a time to remember.
Can you recall which year these were on the TOP 10 HIT PARADE?
HINT: 1971, 72,73, 74, 75, 76...etc.
HINT: She was ahead of her time calling out trump thieves!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVVa7rPncjg&list=OLAK5uy_nR0_ZQAf-z5RUM…
HINT: Hip-Black Detective
Image of Jimmy Carter holding hands with his wife of 77 years. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post)
For 100 years, US women outlived US men, due to cardiovascular and lung cancer death rates related largely to smoking habits..
A new study systematically examines the contributions of COVID-19 and other underlying causes of death to the widened gender life expectancy gap from 2010 to 2021.
As life expectancy at birth in the US decreased for the second consecutive year, from 78.8 years (2019) to 77.0 years (2020) and 76.1 years (2021), the gap between women and men widened to 5.8 years, its largest since 1996 and an increase from a low of 4.8 years in 2010
'Three Words' or 'Tres palabras' de Bebo & Chucho Valdés produced by Fernando Trueba y Nat Chediak en Javier Limón Studios.
A California native, a transplant, or dreaming of returning there to be with family? The amount of media or music offers no shortage.
From the US-Mexico border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland, and the Mojave Desert. LA is the Hollywood entertainment industry.
Five decades later his legaciy in question as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died at the age 100.
He served as America's top diplomat and national security adviser during the Nixon and Ford administrations.
In a statement, Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm he founded, said the German-born former diplomat died at his home in Connecticut.
During his decades long career, Mr Kissinger played a key, and sometimes controversial, role in US foreign and security policy.
What Really Happened to Jessica Savitch? I worked with her as a young NBC producer. She was a one-of-a-kind anchorwoman.
Jessica Beth Savitch was an American television journalist who was the weekend anchor of NBC Nightly News and daily newsreader for NBC News during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
On this date 11/29/01 - The Beatles lead guitarist George Harrison died in Los Angeles of lung cancer. He was 58 years old.
Following The Beatles breakup he had a successful career as a solo artist and later as part of the Traveling Wilburys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMVjToYOjbM&list=RDEMpapDu9V1HLtqD6LLJq…
George was the youngest member of The Beatles, aged 16 when he joined, his compositions include:
Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey along with Abraham Lincoln were great Americans during the 19th century.
Good folks like FD are unfortunately born into slavery, but unlike many others, that did not stop him. He escaped to the North in 1838, and quickly became an activist, writer, and lecturer, pursuing all three without rest until he died in 1895.