Kohen Wiley, a one year old boy— was shot and killed by police in Mississippi… and the attorney general ruled that the shooting was justified because allegedly, the two women in the car were driving toward the police officers… Where have I heard this bullshit from..?

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Austrian playwright/novelist Elfriede Jelinek won the 2004 Nobel Prize in #Literature for her "for her musical flow of voices & counter-voices in novels & plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés & their subjugating power." Born #OTD in 1946. #BookSky

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Anne Sullivan--the Miracle Worker--was the lifelong teacher and companion of Helen Keller, the first deaf-blind person to earn a college degree. She transformed Keller from an isolated, unruly child into a world-renowned author, lecturer, and activist. She died #OTD in 1936. #education #HistSky

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Developmental biologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard shared the 1995 #Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the "discoveries concerning the genetic control of early embryonic development." First/only female German national to win a Nobel in the sciences. Born #OTD in 1942. #WomenInSTEM

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Edna St. Vincent Millay was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for #Poetry (1923) for her collection, "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver, A Few Figs from Thistles & Eight Sonnets in American Poetry." One of the most celebrated literary figures of the early 20th century. She died #OTD in 1950.

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