Once described as able to “ fight her weight in wildcat, ” University of Chicago graduate Gertrude Beasley came out swinging in her 1925 memoir, “ My First Thirty Years.” In the first sentence, she accused her father of raping her mother.... Author Gertrude Beasley, who wrote" My First Thirty Years," is seen in an undated photo.... “ We had come so far as a society and her words were still inaccessible....

She thinks of herself as a kind of benevolent aquatic bouncer. The livestream, a modest municipal project to assist fish migration, has become an unexpected hit far beyond Utrecht.... Viewers receive nothing for their participation besides the satisfaction of aiding a perch, an eel or a pike in its moment of need. Haskal first visited the site out of curiosity about the phrase “ fish doorbell ”, an unexpected, irresistible pairing of words.... “ I could see on his face that he didn’t expect th