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The Sally Ride Legacy
ELDER GEORGE ON July 23, 2012 we learned that Sally Ride died. Sally was a scientist and the first American woman to travel in a space capsule; she hoped her activities would serve as an inspiration to all women. The Christian Science Monitor wrote, “Sally Ride, a physicist, proved that women could be equal partners with men in space.†Perhaps she proved that she could learn to do what men had done first. Something else that men do that Sally Ride also did is to marry a woman. The desire on the pa
Allama Shibli and Aligarh Movement
By Prof. Ishtiyaq Ahmad Zilli Director Darul Musannefin Shibli Academy, Azamgarh (UP) India MUHAMMAD Shibli Nomani (1857-1914) more popularly known as Shibli Nomani or even simply as Shibli was born in a respected family of landed aristocracy in Bindawal, a village of Azamgarh district in eastern U.P. in 1857. Thus Shibli was born while the first war of independence was at its peak. Azamgarh and surrounding areas were particularly affected by its patriotic fervour.