Episode 17: Outlaws

Cora Hubbard and Belle Starr: Wild West Outlaws.

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Further Reading:

Cora Hubbard:

Bedside Book of Bad Girls: Outlaw Women of the Old West by Michael Rutter

Tales Never Told Around the Campfire: True Stories of Frontier America by Mark Dugan

Ozarks, Gunfire and Other Notorious Incidents by Larry Wood

Cora Hubbard: Female Bank Robber in Missouri by Larry Wood

Belle Starr:

Women of the Wild West by Katherine Kohn

http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/star-bel.htm

Music: The Devil Had a Hold of Me - Gillian Welch

Episode 16: Circus Performers: Whoot! Whoot!

Dames of the Circus: Lillian Leitzel and Millie-Christine McCoy

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Further reading:

Millie-Christine: Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Joanne Martell; John F. Blair Publisher (2001)

Biographical Sketch of Millie Christine, the Carolina Twin, Surnamed the Two-Headed Nightingale and the Eighth Wonder of the World

Music: Little Egypt by the Coasters

Episode 15 - Funny Dames

Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker: Droll dames.

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Further Reading:


Tallulah Bankhead
Tallulah Bankhead: My Autobiography by Tallulah Bankhead (1952)
Tallulah Bankhead by Byrony Lavery (1999)
Tallulah Bankhead: A Scandalous Life by David Bret (1996)

Tallulah ragging on Bette Davis on The Big Show
Tallulah and Marlena sparring on the radio
Tallulah and Groucho sparring on the radio 

Tallulah on Batman. The Black Widow Strikes Again 1,2,3 and Caught in the Spider's Web 1,2,3

Dorothy Parker
'What Fresh Hell Is This?' by Marion Meade. (2006).

Music: This Party Took a Turn for the Douche - Garfunkel and Oates

Special Minisode - Lydia Litvyak

Sr. Lt. Lydia Vladimirovna aka Lilya Litvyak

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Further Reading:
Wings Women and War by Reina Pennington (1997)
Soviet Women in Combat in WWII by Kazimiera J. Cottam (1983)

Also, online commentary by Ms. Cottam on the likelihood of the cheating death rumors. 

Episode 14: Dame Physicists (ish)

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu and The Harvard Computers

Special thanks to Bil Sanford for putting science into English for us.

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Further Reading:

Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu:

Question of Parity Conservation in Weak Interactions by T.D. Lee and C.N. Yang; The Physical Review (October 1, 1956) 

Reversal of the Parity Conservation Law in Nuclear Physics prepared by Ralph P. Hudson.

Famed Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu Dies at 84 by Bob Nelson; The Columbia University Record. (1997)

Beta Decay and Quark-Antiquark Non-Parity in Collision-Induced Gravity by Gary C. Vezzoli; Progress in Physics. (April 2009)

The Harvard Computers

Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe by George Johnson (2005)

Woman Astronomer: The Harvard Computers

Wellesley College Astronomy Department: Annie Jump Cannon

Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury - Vassar College Encyclopedia - Vassar College

Characteristics of the spectral classes - Spectra

Music: Doris Day: Tic,Tic,Tic

Hum: Stars

Episode 13 - Reporters

Nellie Bly and Anna Politkovskaya: Plucky investigative journalists.

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Further Reading:
Nellie Bly:


Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist by Brooke Kroeger (1994)
10 Days in a Madhouse by Nellie Bly
Around the World in 72 Days by Nellie Bly
Six Months in Mexico by Nellie Bly
Nellie Bly Resource Site (online archive of Nellie's writing)
Transcript of PBS American Experience
I'm not the only one curious about McGinty - There's a children's book about him.
And the tradition of stunt reporting continues to the modern age


Anna Politkovskaya

"A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya" by Anna Politkovskaya, The University of Chicago Press (2003). 
Whose Truth? by Georgi M. Derluguian (2003)
"Nothing But the Truth" by Anna Politkovksaya, Novaya Gazeta (2007)
"A Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption, and Death in Putin's Russia" by Anna Politkovskaya (2006)

Music: Monster Hospital by Metric

Look Who's Popped up on Vanity Fair

Our old barkeep Texas Guinan in an Impossible Interview with Mrs. Ella Boyle

Wish she'd been having a conversation with Carry Nation, as that would have been much more apt for us, and also this lady, from what I found on her, seems like half the prohibitionist Carry was. Though she did have the gall to run for public office before she had sufferage, so give the little lady a big hand!