by Rhonni | Sep 8, 2021 | Black Teas, Remarkable Women
A prolific activist who never backed down from a fight that improved lives. Jovita Idar was a staunch defender of the first amendment, women’s rights and equality in education. Her father edited newspapers, and she was a professional journalist at the young age of 17....
by Rhonni | Sep 8, 2021 | Herbal Teas, Remarkable Women
The first person to win two Nobel prizes. Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) lost her mother and eldest sister to typhus when she was just 10 years old. Her father was a teacher, and imbued all his children with a love of learning. Marie graduated high school at 15 with...
by Rhonni | Sep 7, 2021 | Black Teas, Remarkable Women
Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen of Ireland, who knew the coastal waters so well she could disappear at will, into the mists. Daughter of a County Mayo Chieftain and Sea Captain, she was discouraged from going to sea, so she cut her hair and dressed as a boy. Legend...
by Rhonni | Sep 7, 2021 | Green Teas, Remarkable Women
Junko Tabei, the woman who scaled the tallest mountain on every continent. Junko Tabei was the crazy mountain woman who scaled Mount Everest and the Seven Summits – that’s the tallest mountain on every continent. She was the first woman to accomplish both...
by Rhonni | Sep 7, 2021 | Herbal Teas, Remarkable Women
The old saying goes that necessity is the mother of invention, and often, that necessity is a mother’s need to care for her child. Biography notes: 📍1824-1923 born in Gränna Sweden.Orphaned at age 10, by a cholera outbreak, Amalia took work as a maid to support...
by Rhonni | Sep 7, 2021 | Herbal Teas, Remarkable Women
Not only a glass-ceiling-shattering explorer, but also a groundbreaking botanist. Jeanne Baret sailed around the world as part of the first French circumnavigation of the globe, led by admiral Louis-Antoine de Bougainville from 1766 to 1769. Her journey was not smooth...
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