Today was an awesome day for wildlife sightings; I saw a peregrine falcon, a kestrel, a snapping turtle, a painted turtle AND frogs.

Although apparently there are at least twelve snapping turtles in the campus pond, so it's not like it's that unusual to see them.

Oh look more random Egyptian women you've never heard of. Why did you think I did this in the first place, to post people everyone else has already heard of? I think not ( Read more... )

(Queen Elizabeth the First died on this date in 1603*. I should have saved her for today, since her birthday isn't in March at all.)

But today's link is probably someone you've never heard of. Hell, I'd hardly heard of her. But since I put up a Crusader queen, I was elated to find that there was a counterpart on the Muslim side ( Read more... )

I can't believe I forgot about someone this awesome until the very last week of the project, but oh well ( Read more... )

Hella late post again but what else is new? As you may have guessed from the Marie Curie post, I think science is way awesome, so here's another scientist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_GoodallRead more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sojourner_TruthRead more... )

Like I said in one of my other posts I was going to put her up eventually and here she is ( Read more... )

As you may have noticed I forgot to make a history post yesterday. But I will still have posted 31 different articles by the end of the month, even if I skipped a day or two. To that end I have two today, both great American First Ladies. (I'll also have two on the last day of the month to make up for the other day I skipped ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

Diving back into ancient history with Hypatia, a mathematician and philosopher at the library of Alexandria. She was accused of spreading religious unrest and killed by a Christian mob around the same time as one of the attacks on the library

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, in 1981.

Not all of her votes are ones I would agree with and she was appointed by the grand high idol of conservobots everywhere (and even sane ( Read more... )