<li>2023-04-13: Codeberg mirror is down until Forgejo implements user blocking.</li>
<li>2023-03-18: Doing better than I expected. Being forced to deal with a former online friend turned stalker is stressful, but I'm managing. Mostly I'm just disappointed in the male incapability to understand the words "leave me alone". <b>I finally have gainful employment again</b> as long as I can pass a background check next week.</li>
- [Aphra Behn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphra_Behn): one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing
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- [Enheduanna](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enheduanna): first known poet
- [Herrad of Landsberg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herrad_of_Landsberg): 12th-century nun who wrote an early pictoral encyclopedia, *Hortus deliciarum*, to teach the women in her convent about the sciences of the time
- [Edna St. Vincent Millay](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edna_St._Vincent_Millay?lang=en): first woman (and second person!) to win the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
- [Lotte Reiniger](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger): director/writer of the oldest surviving animated feature film, [_The Adventures of Prince Achmed_](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Prince_Achmed)
- [Murasaki Shikibu](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murasaki_Shikibu): wrote the first novel, *The Tale of Genji*
- [Valerie Thomas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Thomas): invented the illusion transmitter, critical for the invention of 3D movies
- [Maud Wagner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Wagner): first female tattoo artist in the United States
- [Maud Wagner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Wagner): first female tattoo artist in the USA
## Computers
- [Ada Lovelace](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace): the first computer programmer
- Kathleen Booth: inventor of assembly language
- [Evelyn Berezin](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Berezin): designed the first computer word proecssor
- [Edith Clarke](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Clarke?lang=en): first woman to earn a degree in electrical engineering
- [Marian Croak](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Croak?lang=en): invented VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
- [Margaret Hamilton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Hamilton_(software_engineer)): lead programmer on the Apollo project
- [Grace Hopper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper): created the first compiler for a programming language
- [Susan Kare](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Kare): "pioneer of pixel art"; designed many of the icons, fonts, and images for Apple, NeXT, and IBM in the 1980s
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## Industry
- [Tabitha Babbitt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabitha_Babbitt): invented the circular saw
- [Alice H. Parker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_H._Parker?lang=en): invented central heating
## Medicine
- [June Almeida](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/June_Almeida): discovered the coronavirus group of viruses
- [Leila Denmark](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_Denmark): synthesised the first vaccine for pertussis (whooping cough)
- [Rosalind Franklin](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind Franklin]: discovered the double-helix formation of DNA
- [Gertrude Elion](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_B._Elion?lang=en): biochemist and Nobel Prize winner instrumental in the creation of the first antiviral drug widely used to fight AIDS
- [Rosalind Franklin](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind Franklin): discovered the double-helix formation of DNA
- [Barbara McClintock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock): discovered that genes can move between chromosomes
- [Andromachi Papanikolaou](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromachi_Papanikolaou): key factor in the development of the pap smear test
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- [Mary Kenner](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kenner): inventor of the menstrual pad; holder of the record for the most patents awarded to a Black woman in the USA
- [Inge Lehmann](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inge_Lehmann): discovered the Earth has a solid inner core
- [Maria Sibylla Merian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian): one of the first naturalists to observe insects directly
- [Mary Sherman Morgan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sherman_Morgan): invented hydyne (a liquid rocket fuel)
- [Cecilia Payne](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin): discovered what the universe and sun are made of
- [Clarice Phelps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarice_Phelps): part of the team that discovered element 117 (tennessine); first Black woman involved with the discovery of a chemical element
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- [Marie Van Brittan Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Brittan_Brown): co-invented home security surveillance
- [Bessie Coleman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Coleman): first Black woman to earn an international pilot's license; first known female aviator
- [Elizabeth Magie](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Maggie): created the progenitor to the *Monopoly* board game
- [Madam C. J. Walker](https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Madam_C._J._Walker?lang=en): entrepreneur and first female self-made millionaire in the USA