Cat

From Barbara,

Baldwyn, Mississippi, USA

Horse. Greetings from Kentucky

From Barbara,

Baldwyn, Mississippi, USA

Puffins

From Barbara,

Baldwyn, Mississippi, USA

Great Gray Owl

 

From Carol,

Adrian, Michigan, USA

Smiling dog

From Barbara,

Baldwyn, Mississippi, USA

Marilyn Monroe at the drive-in, 1952

From Eric,

Charlotte Hall, Maryland, USA

Fawn, 2013. Happy Menocal. From Animal Box: 100 postcards by 10 Artists

From Dena,

Springfield, Illinois, USA

The Ship, 1942-43 by Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

From Dena,

Springfield, Illinois, USA

Cow's Skull with Calico Roses, 1931 by Georgia O'Keeffe

From Verinica,

Chesterton, Indiana, USA

TWA Airlines. 1960's

From Carol

Adrian, Michigan, USA

Working women. Baltimore, Maryland, 1943

From Allison,

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Arc welders lunching in the pipe shop, Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, Baltimore, Maryland, 1943. Photograph by Arthur Siegel.

Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

From Jennifer,

Fort Mill, South Carolina, USA

Marilyn Monroe

From Michelle,

USA

Giant Panda

 

From Sarah,

USA

Elizabeth Blackwell

From Victoria

San Francisco, California, USA

Elizabeth Blackwell (3 February 1821 – 31 May 1910) was a British-born physician, notable as the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States, as well as the first woman on the UK Medical Register. She was the first woman to graduate from medical school, a pioneer in promoting the education of women in medicine in the United States, and a social and moral reformer in both the United States and in the United Kingdom. Her sister Emily was the third woman in the US to get a medical degree.

Grace Hopper (1906-1992)

From Kae

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first compiler related tools. She popularized the idea of machine-independent programming languages, which led to the development of COBOL, an early high-level programming language still in use today.

Hopper had attempted to enlist in the Navy during World War II, but she was rejected by the military because she was 34 years of age and too old to enlist. She instead joined the Navy Reserves. Hopper began her computing career when she worked on the Harvard Mark I team that was led by Howard H. Aiken. In 1949, she joined the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation and was part of the development team that designed the UNIVAC I computer in 1944. It was at Eckert–Mauchly that she began developing the compiler. She believed that computer code could be written in English by using a programming language that was based on English words. The compiler would convert that code into machine code that would be understood by computers. By 1952, Hopper finished her compiler, which was written for the A-0 System programming language.

In 1954, Eckert–Mauchly chose Hopper to lead their department for automatic programming, and she led the release of some of the first compiled languages like FLOW-MATIC. In 1959, she participated in the CODASYL consortium, which consulted Hopper to guide them in creating a machine-independent programming language. This led to the COBOL language, which was inspired by her idea of a language being based on English words. In 1966, she retired from the Naval Reserve, but in 1967, the Navy recalled her to active duty. She retired from the Navy in 1986 and found work as a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation, sharing her computing experiences.

Owing to her accomplishments and her naval rank, she was sometimes referred to as "Amazing Grace". The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper was named for her, as was the Cray XE6 "Hopper" supercomputer at NERSC. During her lifetime, Hopper was awarded 40 honorary degrees from universities across the world. A college at Yale University is named in her honor. In 1991, she received the National Medal of Technology. On November 22, 2016, she was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

Dog

From Stephanie

Lexington, Kentucky, USA

Skunk

From Jacquelynn

Tucson, Arizona, USA

St. Augustine, Florida. Aerial View of the City

From Sarah

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

This city is the oldest continually occupied European settlement in North America. St. Augustine was founded in 1565 by Don PedroMenendez of Aviles, Spain who was sent to protect the Spanish Treasure fleets sailing along the coast of Florida.

Little pony

From Pam

Norfolk, Virginia, USA