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1976 Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to go beyond the orbit of Saturn. The probe sent its last signal in 2003 7.6 billion miles away from Earth but continues to travel deeper into space

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2018-02-10

Pioneering Metis woman are popular. Our Feb 22 book launch event with author is now sold out. Thanks, everyone!

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2018-02-09

Hilma af Klint (1862–1944), who is now regarded as a pioneer of abstract art.

The Swan, No.12

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2018-02-08

Thanks to one of our Pioneers, 'CageCCC', who spent the whole interview stacking up Gunpowder Kegs behind without detonating them 😀 The bounty skulls were appreciated too!

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2018-02-08

Margaret Oakley Dayhoff died on this day in 1983. She developed the protein one letter code and was a bioinformatics pioneer.
(Thanks to pyrrolysine, we can spell her name in a protein now!)

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2018-02-05

"D" is for David Nelson Crosthwait Jr. He was an engineering pioneer in the field of heating & air conditioning and is best known for heating up Radio City Music Hall. He held 119 patents all in relation to heating, cooling, and temperature technology.

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2018-02-05

This artwork, Tessellations, honors Gloria Ford Gilmer, PhD a pioneer of bringing focus to issues of access & equity in mathematics, challenging Eurocentrism in math education https://t.co/jdbcpB8Cfk

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2018-02-02

Royal Worcester is one of the oldest established ceramic firms still in existence today. Established in 1751 by Dr John Wall and William Davies (a physician and an apothecary respectively) who had pioneered a new technique for producing porcelain.

https://t.co/VQlgCEZF2h

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2018-02-01

🎨 "Irises" Ladies' Flower Garden, Vol. 2 - 1844
👩‍🎨 Jane Wells Webb Loudon
(1807- 1858). English author and early pioneer of science fiction. ...
The Beauty in
https://t.co/XSHWPKTtAk ID: kzneGxAD5x

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2018-01-26

2018 Celebrating pioneering Queens Day 23: Ruth Handler 📕 The Story of Barbie and the Woman Who Created Her

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2018-01-25

The

Art is love!

🎨 "Irises" Ladies' Flower Garden, Vol. 2 - 1844

👩‍🎨 Jane Wells Webb Loudon
(19 August 1807, Birmingham, UK – 13 July 1858, London, England) was an English author and early pioneer of science fiction. ...

Beauty in

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2018-01-24

Very saddened to hear about the passing of Ursula Le Guin, an immense talent and pioneer in science fiction literature. Rest in peace.

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2018-01-24

Happy Birthday D.W. Griffith! Born on this date in 1875, he was an American director, writer, and producer who pioneered modern film making techniques.

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2018-01-23

1854 telephone pioneer, shipbuilder and Shakespearean actor Thomas Augustus Watson was born in Salem, Massachusetts, USA. He assisted Alexander Graham Bell and received Bell's first phone call “Mr. Watson—come here—I want you.” https://t.co/CIbEt2howX …

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2018-01-19

American photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston -- a pioneer in women's photography -- was born on this date in 1864. This is a portrait of "Isadora Duncan's Dance Students."

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2018-01-16

I love it that the pioneering children's show which began in 1964, has come sixth in the top 50. That long overdue DVD box set must be inching ever closer...

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2018-01-10

Student life at the world’s first medical school for women: the pioneers who faced jeers and discrimination to become doctors https://t.co/NYPwcNHHn9 👩🏽‍🎓💉

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2018-01-10

American artist Helen Frankenthaler—a pioneer of new techniques in abstract expressionist painting—was born in 1928. Her “Jacob’s Ladder” is now on view in the gallery. https://t.co/yU4tLmGIvp

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2017-12-13

A pioneering project from charity curated by students from is using art to disrupt the clinical feel of an NHS waiting room

https://t.co/Iia8tSjUez

Have you been influenced by art you've seen inside a hospital?

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2017-12-11