A Woman's World?

With the election race heating up a lot of attention is focusing on gender and politics. Will Hillary be our first woman president? We'll have to wait and see but it is predicted to be a close primary election.

Many people don't know that Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking female in our national government today. She is the Speaker of the House and in line to become the head of the U.S. government should anything happen to the President. The presidential succession order is as follows: Vice President, Speaker of the House, President pro Tempore of the Senate, Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury,...


The highest ranking female had at one time been Madeline Albright who had served as Clinton's Secretary of State. She was appointed in 1997. During a question and answer period during a speech she gave in 2004, someone had asked "Was your tenure of secretary of state an isolated one-time-only occurrence, or can we expect another woman or women to represent us internationally as secretary of state sometime in, say, the next 20 years?" One-time ocurence it was not. On January 26, 2005, Condolezza Rice was appointed Secretary of State.

Blogs, Blogs Everywhere

I've recently started looking at other blogs just to see what is out there. I had not realized how many people had blogs. One blog that has been featured on the USA Today's website and also the NJEA's website is the World History Blog. Miland Brown comments on various aspects of world history. He had wrote a post on historical ignorance which I thought was interesting. I even commented on it because that was a topic I addressed in my one graduate class (where we had to begin our master's thesis). He has recently added a poll on the site. This week's poll is on who was the most evil Roman emperor. Check it out.

Mysteries

I love mysteries. There is a website listing "History's Most Overlooked Mysteries". Some I have never heard of such as Rongorongo and the bog bodies. Alas, the list does not contain very detailed information. If your interested in additional reading you'll have to do your own research.

Photos

This photo is of the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Italy. My sister-in-law and I traveled from Rome, Italy to London, England last summer. Other photos from my trip to Europe can be viewed on Flickr.