BETA
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Parent Category: BIT WOMAN
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on 11 February 2020
Helena Rubinstein, The Beauty Queen
Helena Rubinstein by Paul Cezar Helleu (1908)
I was, and remain, fascinated by her enthusiasm, her curiosity, her bravery and her youthfulness. She was afraid of nothing and had endless energy, passion, and intelligence. She was a real heroine and, as she used to say, her life experiences could easily have filled half a dozen lives. She remains a role model and an inspiration not only to businesswomen but women all over the world.
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Parent Category: BIT WOMAN
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on 07 February 2020
Unexpected Courage of Bertha Benz
In early August 1888. without her husband's knowledge, Bertha Benz, with her sons Richard and Eugen, fourteen and fifteen years old, drove in one of Benz's newly constructed Patent Motorwagen No. 3 automobiles from Mannheim to Pforzheim, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over more than a very short distance.The distance was about 104 km (65 mi). Distances traveled before this historic trip were short, and merely trials with mechanical assistants
