On 5 August 1888, aged 39, Bertha Benz was the first woman - in fact the first person - to drive a car over a long distance. She was testing out her husband Carl Benz’s three-wheeled Patent-Motorwagen ...

Maria Skłodowska-Curie ( 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934), commonly known as Marie Curie, was a physicist and chemist who conducted groundbreaking research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to ...

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Richard Lemon Lander. Mezzotint by C. Turner, 1835, after W. Brockedon.

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Cortina d'Ampezzo Tony Sailer, winner of the giant slalom, is brought in triumph by the fa… ...

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