#Marie Tharp

[francisofgotham1]

It was actually both of them.

Alfred Wagner (born 1880) - the man seen as the originator of the continental drift - first suggested the idea in 1912 during a lecture in Frankfurt, Germany. Later that same year, he made a long article arguing his theory. He faced some resistance, but many in Europe were already in favor of it in the late 1920s. In the US, though, it took much longer to catch on.

Marie Tharp (born 1920) made groundbreaking work on mapping the Atlantic Ocean Floor between 1946 and 1952, which eventually led to the overall acceptance of Wagner's theories across the globe. In fact, the whole reason why her findings were rejected (apart for sexism) was because it was support continental drift.

So, while Tharp's work definitely led to solidifying the theory as correct, it was Wagner that created and founded the theory to begin with.

God could you imagine how mad geologists must have been to slowly watch the "hey all the continents kinda fit like puzzle pieces :)" guy get proven right

[victoriaassanelli]

Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math, by Jeannine Atkins

Simon & Schuster - 2020

[joe-england]

Let's talk about the Navy renaming ships....

Damn.  Robert Smalls kicked all kinds of ass!

[thehorrorkid17]

An appreciation moodboard for sister Rosetta tharpe.

[weekendviking]

Marie Tharp for the Win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

Her stunning oceanography work with Bruce Heezen gave us all these stunning maps, and combined with and building on the work of excellent maniacs like Harry Hess just before and during the war (he entered the US navy to do his doctorate on gravity anomaly study over deep ocean trenches (which we now know are the subduction zones), but could only do it from a submarine and they wouldn't let him borrow one without enlisting, then the war happened so he was stuck driving submarines and later troop ships, and re-purposed his anti submarine sonar for ocean bottom mapping...) really nailed home the mechanism for continental drift that had been growing in support but needing hard oceanographic proof since the '30s

girls don’t want a man girls want a detailed map of the indian ocean floor from the october 1967 national geographic that they can put on the bottom of the bunk above them and look at to go to sleep

[callmeanxietygirl]

#UnDíaComoHoy pero de 1920 nació Mary Tharp, la geóloga que dio luz y color al fondo oceánico.

#MásCiencia #MujeresEnLaCiencia

[nonesuchrecords]

Rhiannon Giddens is a host of the new PBS conversation series Arts Talk, which premieres today, with all episodes available to stream now on PBS.org and the PBS app. Giddens welcomes singer, songwriter, and producer Elvis Costello and actor and singer Brian Stokes Mitchell as her guests on the show to discuss their careers and share personal memories. You can watch them here. Guests on other episodes are Seal, Min Jin Lee, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Jimmy Kimmel, and Twyla Tharp in interviews led by Misty Copeland, Henry Winkler, and Ann Curry. Giddens new album, You're the One, is due August 18.

[matildazq]

Review: Marie and Rosetta, Northlight Theatre, Skokie, IL

[queerasfact]

Black History Month: Rosetta Tharpe

“All this new stuff they call rock ‘n’ roll, why, I’ve been playing that for years now.”

—Rosetta Tharpe, London Daily Mirror, 1957, quoted in Gayle Wald’s Shout, Sister, Shout!: The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Known as the godmother of rock and roll, Rosetta Tharpe had her first hit song in 1938 and continued to perform almost up until her death in 1973.

As the first gospel musician signed to Decca records, Rosetta brought the music of her Black, working-class gospel church to the world. Her sound - especially her distinctive guitar-playing - was a pioneering influence on rock and roll, with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, and Chuck Berry all citing her as an inspiration.

Rosetta never spoke publicly about her sexuality, but friends remember that she was attracted to women and men, and that she and her musical partner Marie Knight were lovers.

Learn more

Image: Black-and-white photo of Rosetta, a young, smiling Black woman in a long dress, holding a guitar

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[balkanradfem]

Geology stuff by women; tectonic plates were discovered by a woman.

Marie Tharp.

She is so cool!

[backside-into-the-heavenly]

This map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, created in 1968, is based on depth surveys conducted by Bruce Heezen and Marie Tharp. Heinrich Berann painted the map for National Geographic magazine. — in New York, NY.

[littlelesbianintern]

in regards to the act iii a lot of the suggestions I’ve seen are pretty much only 2000s rock scene based which I’m still all for but at the end of the day this is Beyoncé we’re talking about so the album is going to be musicology of rock n roll so here are my predictions/hopes of samples/collabs for act iii aka the rock album:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe (the mother of rock n roll) (there’s a snippet of ‘Down By The Riverside’ featured on Smoke Hour w/ Willie Nelson already)

Elvis Presley

Tina Turner (devastated we won’t get a collab) probably ‘Proud Mary’

Aerosmith (hopefully a cover of ‘Dream On’)

The Rolling Stones

Little Richard

Prince

Led Zeppelin

Jimi Hendrix

Stevie Nicks

Rage Against The Machine

Lenny Kravitz

Michael Jackson (fingers crossed for ‘Dirty Diana’)

Paramore as an example of more recent rock bands.

Queen

Others I could see maybe as collaborators on the composition could be the rest of Fleetwood Mac, a Slash guitar solo, potentially Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl has played drums for other artists tracks a couple of times), maybe Elton John, etc.

Edit: ok this was in my drafts before she name dropped like a bunch of the people on my list at the iHeart awards last night this album is about to be so good

[super-powerful-queen-reyna]

Here's my list of forgotten/cool women from history. Please take it, reblog it with more, spread it, learn about them, make books about them:

Lucy (slave used for experimentations on the uterus)

Nightwitches from WW2

Grace Hopper

Mary Anning

Maria Mitchell

Ada Lovelace

Kate Warne

Agnes Barre

Flora Tristan

Olympe de Gouges

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bessie Smith

Sylvia Plath

Sweet Tee

Lady D (the rapper)

The Sequence

Lady B

Rachel Carson

Baya

Tahireh

Lalla Fatma N'Soumer

Rosalind Franklin

Miriam Makeba

Alexandra David Néel

Suzanne Noël

Helena Rubinstein

Katherine Switzer

Jeanne Barret

Sophie Germain

Katherine Johnson

Margaret Hamilton

Hedy Lamarr

Betty Snyder Holberton

Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli

Marilyn Wescoff Meltzer

Frances Bilas Spence

Ruth Lichteman Teitelbaum og Jean Jennings Bartik

Valerie Thomas

Karen Sparck Jones

Dr Shirley Ann Jackson

Radia Perlman

Stacy Horn

Dr Betty Harris

Beulah Louise Henry

Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler

Empress Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire

Surya Bonaly

Dolly Parton

Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Shelley

Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Kingdom

Queen Yaa Asantewa Ashanti

Empress Candace of Ethiopia

Queen Sarraounia Mangou of Aznas Kingdom

Dona Beatriz

Mileva Marić

Matoaka

Janet Sobel

Claudette Colvin

Marsha P. Johnson

Marian Anderson

Madam CJ Walker

Frida Kahlo

Mirka Mora

Dahomey Amazons

The 40 Elephants

Diamond Alice

Maggie Bailey

Julie d'Aubigny

Bessie Coleman

Policarpa Salavarrieta

Annie Oakley

Anna Julia Cooper

Sojourner Truth

Ida B. Wells

Shirley Chisholm

Mary Church Terrell

Audre Lorde

Harriet Tubman

Maria W. Stewart

Angela Davis

Florynce Kennedy

Jocelyn Bell

Alice Ball

Lise Meitner

Chien Shiung Wu

Marie Tharp

Elizabeth Blackwell

Amanirenas

Wu Zetian

[fearnoarts]

Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Marie Knight

[aelloposchrysopterus]

There’s this Canadian marine geophysicist and artist, Ele Willoughby (who doesn’t have a Tumblr for me to mention, so I’ve linked her Etsy), who makes some of my favorite prints ever. A few years back, my father got me her Marie Tharp print as a birthday present; this year, he gifted me her Emilie du Châtelet print.

I am over the moon.

Emilie du Châtelet is one of my favorite historical figures because of how her work shaped Newtonian physics. She not just translated, but tested, Newton’s work at a time when Newtonian physics was considered somewhat controversial in Europe.

Ele Willoughby’s work combining the artistic with the scientific and mathematical is beautiful and gorgeous and showcases the beauty in science. She also attaches a biography of the scientist as part of her artist’s note for each of these portrait prints. Her work is so beautiful. I love it.

Now I’ve just got to get this framed and find somewhere to hang it.