“[T]he hare lay in the grass in the woods, and his beautiful eyes were moist with sadness. ‘What can I offer if any poor creature should pass by the way?’ he thought. ‘I cannot offer grass, and I have neither rice nor nuts to give.’ But suddenly he leaped with joy. ‘If someone comes this

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California’s first licensed female architect and one of the first female graduates from Beaux-Arts in Paris, Julia Morgan is best known as the designer of the elaborate and expensive Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Lesser known is her more prolific work for a client very different from William Randolph Hearst; and perhaps she should

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Mark Hamill once claimed that Marcia Lucas, one-time wife of George Lucas and one of the film editors that won an Academy Award for her work on Star Wars, “was really the warmth and the heart of those films”. She was also, perhaps, one of the most experienced and accomplished talents on the crew. By…

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“But the hour is coming, in fact has come, when the vocation of women is being achieved in its fullness, the hour in which woman acquires in the world an influence, an effect, and a power never hitherto achieved. That is why, at this moment when the human race is undergoing so deep a transformation,

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