by Fran
Thu May 14th, 2009 at 03:50:12 PM EST
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Europeans on this date in history:1857 – Birth of Williamina Fleming, a Scottish-born astronomer. She worked as a maid in the home of Professor Edward Charles Pickering. Pickering became frustrated with his male assistants at the Harvard College Observatory and famously declared his maid could do a better job. She discovered the Horsehead nebula. (d. 1911)
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