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Boyle, Charles P. “Women in Space.” JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE EDUCATION 5, no.4 (May ): Brief history of women as astronauts, written before Sally Ride’s pioneering flight.
Cowley, A., et al. “Report to the Council of the AAS from the Working Group on the Status of Women in Astronomy.” American Astronomical Society BULLETIN 6, no.3, part II (): Includes numerous graphs and statistical tables.
Davis, Herman S. “Women Astronomers.” POPULAR ASTRONOMY 6, nos.3&4 (May & June ) Part I ( A.D), May ; Part II (), June ; Part III (“Contemporary”) June Three-part biographical essay, with a review of Alphonse Rebiere’s LES FEMMES DANS LA SCIENCE, Paris,
Fleming, Mrs. M. (Williamina P.) “A Field for Woman’s Work in Astronomy.” ASTRONOMY AND ASTRO-PHYSICS 12, no.8 (October ): Discusses astro-photography an
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Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
French secularized clergyman, statesman, and diplomat (–)
Charles-Maurice dem Talleyrand-Périgord (;[1]French:[ʃaʁlmɔʁisdətal(ɛ)ʁɑ̃peʁiɡɔʁ,moʁ-]; 2 February – 17 May ), 1st Prince of Benevento, then Prince of Talleyrand, was a French secularized clergyman, statesman, and leading diplomat. After studying theology, he became Agent-General of the Clergy in In , just before the French Revolution, he became Bishop of Autun. He worked at the highest levels of successive French governments, most commonly as foreign minister or in some other diplomatic capacity. His career spanned the regimes of Louis XVI, the years of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Louis XVIII, Charles X, and Louis Philippe I. Those Talleyrand served often distrusted him but, like Napoleon, found him extremely useful. The name "Talleyrand" has become a byword for crafty and cynical diplomacy.
He was Napoleon's ledare diplomat during the years when French
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