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Before food TV came to be, one woman taught America how to cook with joy… and lots of butter. From writing to working for the CIA, Julia Child’s path led her to Paris, where she discovered French cuisine and forever changed how America eats.

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The history of chocolate | alimentarium


The French Chef - SNL 


French Onion Soup | The French Chef Season 1 | Julia Child 


Excerpt from 'A Covert Affair: Julia Child and Paul Child in the OSS' » PopMatters 


The Passionate, Progressive Politics of Julia Child | The New Yorker 


Paul Child, Artist, Dies at 92 - The New York Times 

JULIA CHILD / 1912-2004 - Los Angeles Times

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She is known as “Miss Unsinkable.” Between the years 1908 and 1950, Violet Jessop worked as a stewardess and nurse aboard some of the most famous ships in history. Incredibly, she survived not one, not two, but three maritime disasters- including the Titanic itself. 

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The Stunning Survival Story of Ernest Shackleton and His Endurance Crew | HISTORY 


Titanic survivor : the memoirs of Violet Jessop, stewardess


https://web.archive.org/web/20120117003457/http://www.biography.com/people/violet-jessop-283646 


Violet Constance Jessop : Titanic Stewardess (Survivor) 


The Woman Who Survived All Three Disasters Aboard the Sister Ships: the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic 


Unsinkable Violet Jessop: Survivor of the Titanic and two other ship disasters | Sky HISTORY TV Channel 

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In the early decades of the twentieth century, tuberculosis was a shadow that loomed over New York City. Amid segregation and discrimination in American health care, a group of black nurses at New York’s Sea View Hospital rose to the occasion.

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The Underground Railroad | Short History Of... | Noiser History Podcasts 


Tuberculosis 


Virginia Allen, one of the last surviving “Black Angels”, is Graduation Keynote Speaker | NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing 


The ‘Black Angels’ who helped cure tuberculosis - The Emancipator 

(The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis by Maria Smilios)


The Heroic Black Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis | Scientific American 

"Racial and Religious Democracy": Identity and Equality in Midcentury Courts by Elizabeth D. Katz :: SSRN

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In 18th-century France, Chevalière d’Éon became famous as a brilliant spy and diplomat- and one of the first openly transgender figures in European history. Throughout their life, it was unknown if they were a man or a woman, living boldly between identities and loyalties, carrying out secret missions for both France and England.

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She went to the field : women soldiers of the Civil War : Tsui, Bonnie : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 


The Incredible Chevalier d'Eon, Who Left France as a Male Spy and Returned as a Christian Woman - Atlas Obscura 


D'Eon de Beaumont, his life and times; : Homberg, Octave, 1876-1941 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 


Lettres, mémoires et négociations particuliéres du chevalier d'Éon : Misitre Plemipotentiaire aupres du Roi de la Grande-Bretagne; avec M.M. les Ducs de Praslin, de Nivernois, de Sainte-Foy, & Regnier de Guerchy, Ambassad. Extr. &c.&c.&c. : Eon de Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d', 1728-1810 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 


The Chevalière d'Eon, Transgender Autobiography and Identity - Morris - 2019 - Gender & History - Wiley Online Library 


The French Diplomat Who Lived as Both a Man and a Woman | HISTORY 


Charles, chevalier d’Éon de Beaumont | French secret agent, Eonism | Britannica 


French Revolution: Timeline, Causes & Dates | HISTORY 

Louis XIV | Palace of Versailles


BBC - History - King Louis XV 

Le Secret du roi ou l'histoire d'une sottise on JSTOR

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During the height of spiritualism in the 1920s, Boston medium Mina "Margery" Crandon became a sensation with her dramatic séances and claims of spiritual contact. But not everyone was convinced. Rose Mackenberg, an investigator who worked alongside Houdini, went undercover to expose fraudulent mediums across the country - including mediums like Mina.

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Hauntings - Series 1: 1. The Enfield Poltergeist - BBC iPlayer 


Enfield Poltergeist | Skeptical Inquirer 


Overlooked No More: Rose Mackenberg, Houdini’s Secret ‘Ghost-Buster’ - The New York Times 


HOUDINI'S GREATEST NEMESIS — American Hauntings 


Houdini's Greatest Trick: Debunking Medium Mina Crandon 


“The First Klansman”: Xenophobia, Faith, and Redemption in the Indiana Klan | Invisible Indianapolis 

Ghosts, apparitions, and poltergeists : an exploration of the supernatural through history

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