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  2. List of women explorers and travelers - Wikipedia

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    First woman to circumnavigate the world by automobile Rosie Swale-Pope: Swiss, Irish, and British 1946: Has run, walked and sailed around the world Junko Tabei: Japanese 1939: 2016: First woman to reach summit of Mount Everest Annie Edson Taylor: American 1838: 1921: First person to survive a trip over the Niagara Falls in a barrel Gudrid ...

  3. List of inventions and discoveries by women - Wikipedia

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    Hilbert's tenth problem has been solved, and it has a negative answer: such a general algorithm does not exist. This is the result of combined work of Martin Davis, Yuri Matiyasevich, Hilary Putnam and Julia Robinson which spans 21 years, with Yuri Matiyasevich completing the theorem in 1970. [68]

  4. History of the Marshall Islands - Wikipedia

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    The island was inhabited, though many of the people fled the Spanish landing. The Spaniards found some women and children hiding in the island's vegetation and gave them gifts. Before leaving the islands on January 6, 1543, Villalobos sighted islands that may have included Wotje, Erikub, Maloelap, Likiep, Kwajalein, Lae, Ujae, Wotho or Ujelang ...

  5. List of women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    Joan was the first person in history to fly solo around the world at the equator, the first person to complete the longest single solo flight around the world, the first woman to fly a twin-engine aircraft around the world, the first woman to fly the Pacific Ocean from west to east in a twin-engine plane, the first woman to receive an airline ...

  6. History of Samoa - Wikipedia

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    Chromograph map of Samoa - George Cram 1896. The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion.Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history are strongly connected to the histories of Tonga and Fiji, nearby islands with which Samoa has long had genealogical links as well as shared cultural traditions.

  7. 35 Fascinating Facts About Women's History Month - AOL

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    4. The president declares every March Women's History Month. Since 1995, every president has issued a proclamation declaring March Women's History Month, usually with a statement about its ...

  8. Juana Maria - Wikipedia

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    The Channel Islands have long been inhabited by humans, with Indigenous civilization first occurring 10,000 years ago or earlier. [2] [3] At the time of European contact, two distinct ethnic groups lived on the archipelago: the Chumash lived on the Northern Channel Islands and the Tongva on the Southern Islands.

  9. List of islands created since the 20th century - Wikipedia

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    The island has been re-separated after most of the mass of Hunga Ha'apai was destroyed during the massive 2022 eruption. On September 24, 2013 a new island named Zalzala Koh emerged off the coast of Gwadar, as a result of a strong earthquake that hit south and southwest Pakistan measuring 7.8 on the Richter magnitude scale. [4]