NATIONAL WOMEN IN HISTORY MONTH

Here is a list of influential women to celebrate National Women in History Month, the list could be much longer....but it's long enough, sorry...hopefully someone actually reads this blog. Who is an influential woman in your life?

Elisabeth

Daughter of Aaron, Mother of John the Baptist

We don’t know a lot about Elisabeth except that she was “righteous before God, walking in all the commandments…” She was also “barren” and “well stricken in years.” When she gave birth to John the Baptist the “Lord had shown great mercy upon her…” and her neighbors “rejoiced with her.” She took and hid John from Herod in the desert where they lived until John came back to the country to preach. During this time her husband Zacharias was killed between the alter and the temple for not reveling the location of his son. Unfortunately we don’t have much more information on her, except that she raised a child who “waxed strong in the spirit,” who would pave the way for Jesus Christ.

Sariah
Wife of Lehi

Again, we don’t know much about Sariah. We know she was a “goodly” parent, according to her son Nephi. She was committed to her family and husband, as she packed her bags and left Jerusalem and traveled into the wilderness for eight years. Sariah bore children in the wilderness (Jacob and Joseph). Sariah wasn’t perfect as she complained against Lehi, calling him a “visionary man.” And yet she faithfully boarded a ship (for approximately a year) and headed for the Promised Land, which caused her to be “brought down, even upon her sickbed.” Shortly after arriving, Sariah and Lehi died.

Joan of Arc

When Joan was about 12 years old, she began hearing "voices" from God. These voices told her that it was her divine mission to free her country from the English and help the dauphin gain the French throne. They told her to cut her hair, dress in man's uniform and to pick up the arms. Joan led the troops to a miraculous victory over the English. She continued fighting the enemy in other locations. In 1430 she was captured by the Burundians and sold to the English. The English, in turn, handed her over to a pro-English Bishop of Beauvais, to be tried for witchcraft and heresy. Much was made of her insistence on wearing male clothing. She was told that for a woman to wear men's clothing was a crime against God. Her determination to continue wearing it was seen as defiance and finally sealed her fate. Joan was convicted after a fourteen-month interrogation and on May 30, 1431 she was burned at the stake. She was nineteen years old.

Harriet Tubman

Born into slavery, Harriet Tubman escaped in 1849 at 29 years of age. She returned for her family and slowly brought her family members out of the state and guided dozen of slaves into freedom. She worked for the union army during the Civil War, which led her to liberate 700 slaves. Harriet Tubman died of pneumonia in 1913.

Marie Curie

A physicist and chemist Marie Curie is known as a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and for the discovery of Radium. She was the first female instructor at the University of Paris. During WWI she pushed for mobile X-Ray equipment to be used for the treatment of wounded soldiers. She died in 1934 from anemia, most likely caused from radiation exposure.

Mabel Heath Palmer

Mabel Heath Palmer was the first female Doctor of Chiropractic in 1905. She became a recognized authority on anatomy and was an instructor at Palmer Chiropractic School for more than 30 years.

Laura Bush

She is on this list simply because she is married to this man:

And I feel sorry for her.

“I love to bring people into the oval office...and say, this is where I office.”-G.W.B

And since I bored you all with history here is a funny clip, it is long, but worth watching (although the laugh track is annoying.)