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More than just Lady Edison

Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry by Katie Mazeika

September 11, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

October 2023 is biography reading time. Or at least it was for me, especially online. Therefore, another online reader copy I found that was also a biography of someone I was unaware of, was Beulah Has a Hunch!: Inside the Colorful Mind of master Inventor Beulah Louise Henry. And this gal had a lot of hunches! She figured out issues that others did not see as issues, or felt it could not be done, or might have been specific to say women. But she would even […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Beulah Louise Henry, Inventor, Katie Mazeika, neurodiversity, science, women inventors

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:653 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Fiction, Health, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: Beulah Louise Henry, Inventor, Katie Mazeika, neurodiversity, science, women inventors ·
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She showed her knees and swam away a winner

Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman, World-Class Swimmer, Fashion Pioneer, and Real-Life Mermaid by Katie Mazeika

August 2, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

When looking through the old online reader copy links I found some surprises but others, like Annette Feels Free: The True Story of Annette Kellerman, World-Class Swimmer, Fashion Pioneer, and Real-Life Mermaid was only a small surprise as I like biographies of unknown (or at least mostly unknown) people. And Kellerman is a fairly unknown name today. But that was not the case when she was a swimmer. Taking Australia by storm, a young teen took to swimming like fish takes to swimming. It did […]

Filed Under: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Sports Tagged With: Annette Kellerman, Australia, fashion, Health & Daily Living, Katie Mazeika, Physical Impairments, Swimming, Water Sports, women

BlackRaven's CBR15 Review No:572 · Genres: Biography/Memoir, Children's Books, Health, History, Non-Fiction, Sports · Tags: Annette Kellerman, Australia, fashion, Health & Daily Living, Katie Mazeika, Physical Impairments, Swimming, Water Sports, women ·
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