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Valerie Elise Plame (born August 13, 1963) is an American writer, spy, novelist, and former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer.As the subject of the 2003 Plame affair, also known as the CIA leak scandal, Plame's identity as a CIA officer was leaked to and subsequently published by Robert Novak of The Washington Post.
Barrett was born on October 8, 1936, into a Jewish family in New York City. [1] [2] [3] As a teenager, she overcame a degenerative hip condition that made walking extremely difficult, and organized fan clubs for popular singers she admired, such as Eddie Fisher and Steve Lawrence. [4]
Anne E'del Deacon: [14] First female municipal judge in Palm Beach, Florida and fifth female judge in Florida [Palm Beach County, Florida] Catherine Brunson: [113] First African American female lawyer to work for the Palm Beach County Attorney’s Office (1977), set up a law practice (1984), and to serve on the Circuit Court in Palm Beach ...
For much of Marjorie Post's life, she was known as the wealthiest woman in the United States. [1] [2] Post used much of her fortune to collect art, particularly Imperial-era Russian art, much of which is now on display at Hillwood, the museum which was her estate in Washington, D.C. She is also known for her mansion, Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach ...
Julia Margaret Flesher Koch (born April 12, 1962) is an American socialite and philanthropist who is one of the richest women in the world. In the Forbes ranking for September 2024, her fortune was over $74 billion. [1] She inherited her fortune from her husband, David Koch, who died in 2019.
Hawkins was looking for a CEO to manage Palm, Inc. [6] In 1995, U.S. Robotics acquired Palm, Inc. for US$44 million. [8] The first PalmPilot went on sale in April 1996. After a few months, sales started ramping quickly. [9] In its first 18 months, more than one million PalmPilots had been sold. 3Com acquired U.S. Robotics, with its Palm ...
Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression.
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