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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.
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
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
George grew up in Manhattan, New York with his sister Ruth and brothers James and Robert AKA Bob. All four children attended Felix Adler's Ethical Culture School . Marshall continued his education at Columbia University , where he earned bachelor's (1926) and Master's (1927) degrees. [ 2 ]
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 ...