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Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, Christian mystic, and Marxist political activist. Here is an image of a semi-postal (charity) stamp featuring a portrait of Weil, designed and engraved by René Quillivic, and issued by France on November 12, 1979, Scott No. B518, Y&T No. 2032A, plus a photo of Simone Weil wearing her trademark round glasses - but not a smile! - nethryk "Attention is the only faculty of the soul that gives access to God." - Simone Weil   |
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Yekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko (1916-1941)
Yekaterina Ivanovna Zelenko was a Soviet war pilot. She attended Military Flying Academy in Kursk.
She is the only woman ever known to have performed an aerial ramming.
During her last combat fly her Su-2 was attacked by seven German Me-109s.
She ran out of ammunition, so she launched a top-down air ramming which tore an german plane into two
as the propeller hit the German aircraft`s tail. |
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Pauline Kergomard (1838-1925) was a French educator whose efforts led to the reform of asylums and to the creation of nursery schools in France, and who served as inspector-general of kindergartens from 1881 until 1917. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a profile portrait of Kergomard, designed and engraved by Cécile Guillame, and issued by France on March 8, 1985, Scott No. 1966, Y&T No. 2361, plus a photograph of Pauline Kergomard. - nethryk   |
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Jacqueline Cochran (1906-1980)
 
Jacqueline Cochran was an American aviation pioneer.
She set number of new records in aviation.
She was the first woman to break the sound barrier, piloting an F-86.
In 1964 she set the standing women`s world speed record of 2300 km per hour in an F-104G Super Star jet.
During WWII she was director of the WASP (Women`s Air Force Service Pilots). |
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Kasturba Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1944) was a political activist and the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. In association with her husband, Kasturba Gandhi fought for civil rights and Indian independence from Great Britain. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Kasturba Gandhi, printed by photogravure, and issued by India on February 22, 1964 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of her death, Scott No. 386, plus a photograph of Kasturba Gandhi in 1902. - nethryk   |
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Elena Caragiani Stoenescu (1887-1929)
In 1914 Elena Caragiani Stoenescu got pilot licence and became the first aviatrix in Romania
and one of the first female pilot with international patent aviator in the world.
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Here is an image of a stamp honoring World War II partisan and Heroine of the Soviet Union Vera S. Khorujaia (1903-1942), designed by Russian artist Vasili Vasilievich Zavialov (1906-1972), printed by photogravure, and issued by Russia (USSR) on March 9, 1964, Scott No. 2862, Zagorski No. 2912. - nethryk  |
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Jacqueline Auriol (1917-2000)
Jacqueline Auriol was a French aviator who set several speed records
as one of the world`s leading military test pilots in the 1950`s and 60`s.
She was the world`s first woman test pilot and one of the first pilots to fly the supersonic Concorde.
In 1953 she was the second woman to break the sound barrier, piloting Mystere IV.
( The first was Jacqueline Cochran: https://goscf.com/t/35146&whichpage=8#340560 ) |
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Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
 
Bessie Coleman was an American civil aviator, the first female pilot of African American descent
and the first person of African-American descent to hold an international pilot license.
She got pilot`s license in 1921 in France, because she was black and woman and
so it was impossible to get licence in USA. |
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Darja Domračeva (1986- )
...........................................I got this nice cover yesterday from Belarus friend
Darja Domračeva a Belarusian biathlete won three gold medals at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
She became the first woman to take three gold medals in biathlon events at the same Olympic Games. |
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I would say that this woman holding that little babe is quite "famous"   Canada's 2014 domestic rate Permanent Christmas stamp. |
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Lores Bonney (1897-1994)
Lores Bonney was an Australian Pioneer Aviatrix.
She was the first to fly solo in a DH-60G Moth from Australia to England in 1933 and from Australia to South Africa in 1937.
In 1932 she flew round the coast of Australia. |
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Adrienne Bolland (1895-1975)
 
Adrienne Bolland was a French test pilot at French France`s first airplane manufacturer Caudron.
She is the first woman to fly over the Andes between Argentina and Chile in 1921
from Mandoza (Argentina) to Santiago (Chile). |
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Princess Guimbi Ouattara (1836-1919) is a national heroine of Burkina Faso for defending her city of Bobo Dioulasso from invaders from the south, and who is also remembered for sheltering early European explorers. Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of the warrior princess, designed by Burkina Faso artist Benjamin Raya Sawadogo, printed by lithography, and issued by Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) on September 12, 1980, Scott No. 543. - nethryk  |
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