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Susanna Lee Hoffs(born 1959) is an American singer-songwriter. WithDebbi PetersonandVicki Peterson,she foundedthe Banglesin 1981. Their second album,Different Light(1986), was warmly received by critics and was certified triple-platinum in 1994. The group's third album,Everything(1988), included the US-top-ten-charting "In Your Room"and number-one"Eternal Flame",both written by Hoffs withBilly SteinbergandTom Kelly.Following tensions including resentment at Hoffs's perceived leadership of the band and the stress of touring, the band split in 1989, re-forming in 1999. Hoffs's first solo album,When You're a Boy(1991), was followed bySusanna Hoffs(1996). Neither of the releases proved to be as popular as the Bangles's albums, although they yielded two US-charting singles. Her most recent solo album isThe Deep End(2023), and her first novel,This Bird Has Flown,a romantic comedy about a struggling musician, was published in the same year. (Full article...)

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Mary Jackson(1921–2005) was an American mathematician andaerospace engineerat theNational Advisory Committee for Aeronauticsand its successor,NASA.She worked atLangley Research CenterinHampton, Virginia,for most of her career. She started as acomputerat the segregatedWest Area Computing divisionin 1951. In 1958, after taking engineering classes, she became NASA's first black female engineer. Jackson had earned the most senior engineering title available by 1979 and realized she could not earn further promotions without becoming a supervisor. She accepted a demotion to become a manager of both NASA's federal women's program and theaffirmative actionprogram. Her work sought to influence the career paths of women in science, engineering, and mathematics positions at NASA. Jackson is one of the leading characters in the 2016 bookHidden Figuresand one of the three protagonists inthe book's film adaptation,released the same year. This NASA photograph of Jackson was taken in 1979.

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