Some of my best friends are women

As if we are not interesting enough, here are some interesting tidbits of information about some women that you may or may not know:

*In 1873, Belva A. Lockwood had completed her studies at the National University Law School, but the school refused to give her a diploma because she was a woman. Finally she wrote a letter to President Ulysses S. Grant, who was also the President of the school:

"No. 432 Ninth Street., N.W.,

"Washington, D.C., September 3, 1873.

"To His Excellency U.S. Grant, President U.S.A.:
"SIR,---You are, or you are not, President of the National University Law School. If you are its President, I desire to say to you that I have passed through the curriculum of study in this school, and am entitled to, and demand, my diploma. If you are not its President, then I ask that you take your name from its papers, and not hold out to the world to be what you are not.

Very Respectfully,

Belva A. Lockwood

A week later she received her signed diploma.

Stuff about Marie Curie:

*Marie Curie almost didn't get her name on her first Nobel Prize -- the one she shared with her husband and another man, even though she did most of the work -- because she was a woman. They listed her as "Madame Curie" although she had a doctorate.

*Dr. Curie apparently had no idea that radium, with which she worked with her whole life, was dangerous, or else she ignored the signs. She slept with a vial of the blue glowing radium beside her bed each night. Many of the "Radium Girls" died of cancer. They were girls who worked painting radium on tiny watch dials so they would glow in the dark, licking the tiny paintbrush between strokes. Dr. Curie, her daughter, and her son-in-law all died from (complications due to) exposure to radium.

More stuff about the above in case you care:

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