The Power of Jubilee Sometime in the 1930s, a father in London gave his daughter, instead of the usual teddy bear, a stuffed chimpanzee named Jubilee. According to the young girl, her mother’s friends were “horrified by this toy, thinking it would frighten” her and give her “nightmares.” That father was Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall and his […]
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Grandma Gatewood In 1955, 67-year-old Emma Rowena Gatewood decreed to her adult children she was going for a walk. She didn’t offer details and, facing a stubborn and resilient woman, her children didn’t demand any. She grabbed an army blanket, a raincoat, and a plastic shower curtain, stuffed them into a handmade denim bag, doffed a pair
The woman behind the math behind the space program.
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