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Margaret Elizabeth Thomas "Mardy" Murie (August 18, 1902 – October 19, 2003) was a naturalist, writer, adventurer, and conservationist. Dubbed the "Grandmother of the Conservation Movement" [1] by both the Sierra Club [2] and the Wilderness Society, [3] she helped in the passage of the Wilderness Act, and was instrumental in creating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (also called The Lady in Gold or The Woman in Gold) is an oil painting on canvas, with gold leaf, by Gustav Klimt, completed between 1903 and 1907. The portrait was commissioned by the sitter's husband, Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer , a Viennese and Jewish banker and sugar producer.
The Wilderness Society is an American non-profit land conservation organization that is dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands in the United States. . They advocate for the designation of federal wilderness areas and other protective designations, such as for national monumen
A 48-year-old woman has been found alive in the remote alpine wilderness of southeastern Australia, ... the New South Wales Police Force said. The massive park is known for its wild alpine ...
In 1859, when Edmonia Lewis was about 15 years old, her brother Samuel and abolitionists sent her to Oberlin, Ohio, where she attended the secondary Oberlin Academy Preparatory School for the full, three-year course, [19] before entering Oberlin Collegiate Institute (since 1866, Oberlin College), [20] one of the first U.S. higher-learning institutions to admit women and people of differing ...
2016 – Attitude: Portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, 1964–2015, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York [33] 2017 – Looking For Home: A Yearlong Focus , The Museum of Street Culture, Dallas, Texas [ 34 ] 2021 – Mary Ellen Mark: Girlhood , National Museum of Women in the Arts , Washington, D.C. [ 35 ]
Dr. Ann Bowers, who recently won a prestigious award known as the “Triple Crown” of wilderness medicine, poses for a portrait in McCormick Forest Park, on Tuesday, June 4, 2024, in Gig Harbor.
A Japanese woman offers a prayer for victims of terrorist attacks on New York and Washington after laying flowers at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo September 12, 2001.