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Zero Milestone face. Washington DC. Zero Milestone, facing the stone's northwest corner (2010) The Zero Milestone is a zero mile marker monument in Washington, D.C., intended as the initial milestone from which all road distances in the United States should be measured when it was built.
1875: Women in Michigan and Minnesota win the right to vote in school elections. [3] 1878: A federal amendment to grant women the right to vote is introduced for the first time by Senator Aaron A. Sargent of California. Though initially unsuccessful, the amendment would eventually become the 19th Amendment. [3] [12]
[citation needed] Many Roman milestones only record the name of the reigning emperor without giving any placenames or distances. [1] The first Roman milestones appeared on the Appian Way. At the centre of Rome, the "Golden Milestone" was erected to mark the presumed centre of the empire: this milestone has since been lost.
[10] [11] 1912 Harriet Quimby: First woman to fly across the English Channel. [12] 1912 Rayna Kasabova: First woman to participate in a military flight during the Siege of Odrin. 1914 Eugenie Mikhailovna Shakhovskaya: First woman commissioned as a military pilot; she flew reconnaissance missions for the Czar in 1914. [13] [14] 1915 Marie Marvingt
Lucy Stone (August 13, 1818 – October 18, 1893) was an American orator, abolitionist and suffragist who was a vocal advocate for and organizer of promoting rights for women. [1]
America Online CEO Stephen M. Case, left, and Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin listen to senators' opening statements during a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the merger of the two ...
The CDC has made updates to its list of developmental milestones and Yahoo Life asked a pediatrician to explain. ... a 2009 study concluded that very young children with autism — as young as 18 ...
Elsie Lincoln Benedict (née Vandegrift; November 2, 1885 – February 5, 1970), also known as 'The Wonder Woman', [1] [2] was advertised as the world's best known lecturer [3] [4] [5] during the 1920s and 1930s, speaking to over 3 million people in her lifetime and writing on what Napoleon Hill and Dale Carnegie and a long list of men would do later.