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    Science. Mitchell is the namesake of the Maria Mitchell Association, the Maria Mitchell Observatory, and the Maria Mitchell Aquarium. Maria Mitchell was born...
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    The Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket, Massachusetts, USA, was founded in 1908 and named in honor of Maria Mitchell, the first American woman astronomer...
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    The Maria Mitchell Association Aquarium (MMA Aquarium), also known as the Nantucket Aquarium, is a small, local, seasonal aquarium in Nantucket, Massachusetts...
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    The Maria Mitchell Association is a private non-profit organization on the island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. The association owns the...
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    crater Aristoteles. It was named after American astronomer Maria Mitchell. The floor of Mitchell is rough and irregular, with a low central rise, being partially...
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    independently wealthy throughout her life. She learned of talks at Maria Mitchell Observatory while vacationing with her family on Nantucket, and took...
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    Television (Channel 18) in Nantucket. A major museum association, the Maria Mitchell Association, offers educational programs to the Nantucket Public Schools...
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  • Miss Mitchell's Comet (formally designated C/1847 T1) is a non-periodic comet that American astronomer Maria Mitchell discovered in 1847. The discovery...
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    Apeloig, Zvi Galil, Haim Harari, and Sebastião Salgado. Astronomer Maria Mitchell was the first woman elected to the Academy, in 1848. The current membership...
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    Maria Goeppert Mayer (German pronunciation: [maˈʁiːa ˈɡœpɛʁt ˈmaɪ̯ɐ] , née Göppert; June 28, 1906 – February 20, 1972) was a German-American theoretical...
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    Maria Tallchief (born Elizabeth Marie Tall Chief (𐓏𐒰𐓐𐒿𐒷-𐓍𐓂͘𐓄𐒰 "Two-Standards"; Osage family name: Ki He Kah Stah Tsa, Osage script: 𐒼𐒱𐒹𐒻𐒼𐒰-𐓆𐓈𐒷𐓊𐒷;...
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    Archived February 4, 2021, at the Wayback Machine Shriver, Maria (August 14, 2009). Transcript. "Maria Shriver's Eulogy of Her Mother", The Boston Globe. Accessed...
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  • Hannah Mitchell (11 February 1872 – 22 October 1956) was an English suffragette and socialist. Born into a poor farming family in Derbyshire, Mitchell left...
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  • City. The first person appointed to the Vassar faculty was astronomer Maria Mitchell, in 1865. Vassar adopted coeducation in 1969. Immediately following...
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    Nobel Prize Physics. However, she was not a recipient of the prize. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was the first internationally known woman to work as both...
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    journalistic history. It occurred in 1972, when Nixon's attorney general, John Mitchell, warned reporter Carl Bernstein about a forthcoming article: "Katie Graham's...
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    Andrea Mitchell (born October 30, 1946) is an American television journalist, anchor and commentator for NBC News, based in Washington, D.C. She is NBC...
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  • George Phydias Mitchell (May 21, 1919 – July 26, 2013) was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering...
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  • work as the director of the Maria Mitchell Observatory in Nantucket and for her biographical writings on Maria Mitchell. Belserene was a student at New...
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    Maria Antonia Josepha Benedicta Rosalia Petronella of Austria (18 January 1669 – 24 December 1692) was an Electress of Bavaria as the wife of Maximilian...
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    singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, poet Allen Ginsberg, and photographer Ansel Adams. She traveled and camped at "Black Place" often with her friend, Maria Chabot, and...
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    Emily Dickinson. London: Virago Press. ISBN 0-394-74766-6. Mitchell, Domhnall Mitchell and Maria Stuart. 2009. The International Reception of Emily Dickinson...
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    happened". CBS News. September 25, 2012. Retrieved August 30, 2018. Fink, Mitchell (2007). The Last Days of Dead Celebrities. New York City: Miramax Books...
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    before she entered Vassar College in 1865, where she met the astronomer Maria Mitchell. During her time at Vassar College, her father died and her brother...
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    McManus Margaret Mead Barbara Mikulski Kate Millett Patsy Takemoto Mink Maria Mitchell Toni Morrison Constance Baker Motley Lucretia Mott Kate Mullany Aimee...
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    day anniversary of December 22 elsewhere around the world. She was born Maria Francesca Cabrini on July 15, 1850, in Sant'Angelo Lodigiano, in the Lombard...
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    Lydia Maria Child (née Francis; February 11, 1802 – October 20, 1880) was an American abolitionist, women's rights activist, Native American rights activist...
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    stable, self-sustaining marine aquarium. 1848: American astronomer Maria Mitchell became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;...
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    (de) (nl) (1926–2012), Sonny Clark, Beryl Booker, Jimmy Raney and Red Mitchell. A recording of a live set in Germany was released as Lady Love – Billie...
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    work alongside other Depression-era artists such as Pearl Buck, Margaret Mitchell, Thornton Wilder, John Steinbeck, Frank Capra, Thomas Hart Benton, and...
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