Interesting people
Lynn B. Connor - Adventures in History
CAN YOU THINK OF ANY WOMEN PICTURED ON MONEY? In Japan two women are. Lady Murasaki who lived a thousand years ago wrote "The Tale of Genji." It is often thought of as the world's first novel. Many years later Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896) wrote about ordinary people.
The U.S. is planning to put Harriet Tubman, a former slave, on the $20 bill.
The U.S. is planning to put Harriet Tubman, a former slave, on the $20 bill.
A scene from Genji
Lady Murasaki is in lower right.
Lady Murasaki is in lower right.
Ichiyo Higuchi
105 year-old painter TOKO SHINODA is "always learning....always dreaming."
Sculpture ISAMU NOGUCHI (1904-1988) said "when an artist stops being a child, he stops being an artist." What do you think?
The Girl and the Eagle,
the story of teen age, ASHOLPAN, Mongolian eagle hunter, has been made into a movie --
THE EAGLE HUNTRESS.
HESTER BATEMAN
(1708-1794)
Silversmith
She couldn't read or write.
She signed her name with an X
and stamped her silver with
(1708-1794)
Silversmith
She couldn't read or write.
She signed her name with an X
and stamped her silver with
