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How Many of These 20 Pioneering Female Inventors Did You Know? Around the world and across history, innovative women have imagined, developed, tested, and perfected their creations, and yet most of us would be hard pressed to name even a single woman inventor . In fact, women inventors are behind many of the products and technologies used every day! From life rafts to disposable diapers to rocket fuel, women have invented amazing things — but they're also responsible for some of the things we use for day to day life. In fact, if you use GPS on your cell phone, turn on windshield wipers when you drive in the rain, or eat a chocolate chip cookie , you can thank the woman behind them! In honor of the remarkable women whose breakthroughs have advanced technology and the ease of our day to day lives, we're sharing the stories of twenty ingenious women whose inventions have changed the world. Whether they were scribbling designs two centuries ago or are still working today, these ...

My Barnwell SC cousins , Susan and Mary Jane. "Hospitality is making your guests feel at home, even if you wish they were." --Anonymous "Staying with people consists in your not having your own way, and their not having theirs." --Maarten Maartens "Visits always give pleasure--if not the arrival, the departure." --Portuguese Proverb "For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread." --Rebecca H. Davis Absalom* simply would not leave . . . . . . and, having lived in, and passionately loved "my other hometown," Athens, Greece, for some three decades at the time he showed up for his visit, I could sympathize with him. How does one leave Greece? My empathy, however, was fraying. At the time he arrived, in the middle of a Greek Orthodox monks ' protest march on the Albanian Embassy, I was newly engaged, living with my British fiancé in a stunning apartment look...