LAS CHICAS DEL CAN - Besos Callejeros - MERENGUE 80'S YouTube video by Elgalan718

And here's a sample of Las Chicas del Can to set your toes tapping on a Tuesday morning!

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Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight falls upon Las Chicas del Can (1981-99), the all-woman merengue ensemble that launched the careers of Miriam Cruz and Belkis Concepción, and served as the model for later ensembles like Chantelle and Kaviar.

The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer. When Clémence Royer died on February 7, 1902, she took with her into oblivion perhaps the last human brain that believed in and aimed for Complete Knowledge. She had devoted her life to the propositio...

French polymath Clémence Royer was born 196 years ago today. Now she is most known for her 1862 translation of On the Origin of Species which pushed Darwin's ideas into the realm of human evolution, but in her day she was celebrated for her encyclopedic knowledge.

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Nina Baker is a global treasure in terms of preserving women's engineering, motoring, flying, and scientific history, and any chance to grab a book by her is to be grabbed with both hands!

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THEOLA KILGORE - THE LOVE OF MY MAN YouTube video by ILMJXXX

And here is that recording of "The Love of My Man," an adaptation of the Soul Stirrers' "The Love of God" - a perfect way to start the week!

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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Theola Kilgore (1925-2005), who blended the Gospel she performed in the 1950s with popular idioms to transition to Soul music in the 1960s, as in her 1963 hit "The Love of My Man."

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Neurologist Frances Ames was born 106 years ago today. The 1st woman to receive a medical degree from the University of Cape Town, she researched the benefits of cannabis for MS patients, and was awarded the Order of the Star by Nelson Mandela for her anti-apartheid work.

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Horse 4eva YouTube video by Toxic Lipstick - Topic

Here, from their wonderfully titled 2007 album Poopin, is Horse 4Eva. I'm not going to explain it further than that - just going to leave it here for your Sunday Enlightenment....

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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we feature the early 2000s duo Toxic Lipstick, who fused the experimental electronics of the early 1980s with the frenetic energy and performance style of J-Pop to create something delightfully strange and fun.

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Celebrating the 170th anniversary of the birth of Anna Sarah Kugler, who spent 47 years developing medical services for women in Guntur, India. She started the 1st dispensary there in 1893, followed by a hospital in 1897, all while working towards women's education.

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Today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight features Anne of Austria (1601-1666), regent of France from 1643 to 1651, who started the Early Modern trend for French Queens to play a key role in musical culture with her devotion to the lute, and gathering of a core of lute enthusiasts to perform for each other. 🎵

Wishing a happy 57th birthday to Sayako Kuroda, who began her research at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in 1992, specializing in kingfishers. She was also, small note, a Princess of Japan, only daughter of Emperor Akihito, until her marriage in 2005 required her to relinquish her title.

The Times They Are A-Changin' YouTube video by Odetta - Topic

Here is Odetta's haunting and beautiful 1965 recording of Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin'. Here's hoping it proves prophetic.

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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Odetta (1930-2008), who in the 1950s brought her operatic training to folk music to create some of the genre's most enduring and powerful creations, perhaps more relevant now than ever.

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Turkish industrial chemist Ayşe Saffet Rıza Alpar was born 123 years ago today. In 1932 she became the 1st Turkish woman to receive a PhD in chemistry (Remziye Hisar earned hers one year later), and the 1st woman university rector in the nation, authoring 5 books as well.

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Daddy-O YouTube video by Bonnie Lou - Topic

And here is Daddy-O - one of the great missing links between the worlds of Swing and Country on one side and the emerging world of Rock and Roll on the other, as performed by our musician of the day, Bonnie Lou!

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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we salute Rock and Roll pioneer Bonnie Lou (1924-2015), whose 1955 Rockabilly track "Daddy-O" went to #15 on the charts, one year before Wanda Jackson made her famous Rockabilly turn.

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Broken Hearts and Nuclear Secrets: Marie Maynard Daly, America's First Black Woman Chemist. The years of the Second World War gifted to American feminism one of its most enduring icons in the form of Rosie the Riveter. She was the symbol of a wave of women joining the industrial workforce to...

Marie Maynard Daly, the first Black woman to earn a PhD in chemistry, was born 105 years ago today. Her amazing career featured pioneering work on histones, the first study showing cholesterol's impact on heart disease, and research into creatine uptake by muscle tissues. 🧪

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Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' YouTube video by kkiilljjooy

Here is Lynn performing the timeless "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (with Lovin' on Your Mind)" for your morning dose of Thoughtful Country!

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For today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight, we stop to remember the legendary Loretta Lynn (1932-2022), whose songs spoke to women's lived sorrow and difficult choices in ways that continue to ring true, including "Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin on Your Mind)" & "Coal Miner's Daughter"

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Physician May Chinn was born 130 years ago today. In 1926 she was the 1st Black woman to graduate from Bellevue, but then spent 14 years looking for a hospital that would allow her full practicing privileges on account of her race, practicing privately until she found a cancer research position.

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Mary Parsons, Countess of Rosse, was born 213 years ago today. A gifted early practitioner of photography, we primarily know her today through her financing and oversight of the construction of the Leviathan Telescope, which for 70 years reigned as the world's largest.

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On today's #WomenInMusic Spotlight we feature the impossibly gifted Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), gifted with a C3-F6 vocal range, lauded by Liszt, Chopin, and Saint-Saens as one of her age's greatest pianists, and achieving significant international success as an operatic composer.

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We end our Romance Countdown with the #2 and #1 postings and really, how could it not be these two? Jane Eyre (1847) and Pride and Prejudice (1813). Between them they have established the absolute alphabet of what it means to be a romance, while being evergreen in their appeal. Perfection.

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Blind, Deaf, and Ready for Action: Emily Elizabeth Parsons, Civil War Nurse At the height of the siege of Vicksburg during the American Civil War, Emily Parsons (1824-1880) acted as the tireless supervisor of nurses at the Benton Barracks Hospital, where thousands of the war’...

Today we celebrate the induction of Emily Elizabeth Parsons into the Archive. At the start of the American Civil War, she became a nurse, and was dispatched to the western theater, where she worked to provide equal standards of care for Black and White soldiers.

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Mathematician Ada Isabel Maddison was born 157 years ago today. In 1892 she took the Tripos and would have been 27th Wrangler, but on account of her gender she was not given the degree she had earned. She spent 3 decades at Bryn Mawr as a teacher and admin, retiring in 1926.

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Asha@90 in Mumbai YouTube video by Asha Bhosle Official

To give you an idea how beloved Asha is, here is a clip from her 90th birthday event in Mumbai - all this pageantry to celebrate somebody who had given decades of joy. It would be nice if we celebrated our older performers with something like this spectacle.

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So sad to hear of the passing today of Asha Bhosle. She recorded across numerous dialects, in every imaginable genre, to become perhaps the world's most recorded vocal artist. The world lost a legend today.

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