Jennifer Granholm became the first female Governor of Michigan on January 1, 2003, when she succeeded John Engler ; she served for 8 years, until January 1, 2011.

* 2001 – Sila María Calderón becomes the first female Governor of Puerto Rico.

** Ella Grasso becomes Governor of Connecticut, the first female U. S. governor who did not succeed her husband.

In 1956 Maria Desylla Kapodistria, relative of first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias, was elected mayor of Corfu and became the first female mayor in Greece.

In early 2001, on the recommendation of Premier Bob Carr, Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, appointed Bashir Governor of New South Wales, making her the state's first female governor, and the first governor of any Australian state of Lebanese descent.

She served as the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Alaska from 1994 to 2002 under governor Tony Knowles, becoming the first female elected to statewide office in Alaska.

As of 2010, Maryland has yet to have been served by a female Governor.

According to legend, in 1722, female French colonists gathered in New Orleans at the home of Governor Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville, to protest the lack of familiar ingredients.

She was the first woman ever to serve as Guam's Delegate, Guam's first female Lieutenant Governor ( from 1995 to 2003 ), Guam's first female candidate for Governor ( in 1990 ), and the first female Democrat elected to the Legislature of Guam.

In contrast, Governor Brown allowed 36 executions, including the highly controversial case of Caryl Chessman in 1960 and Elizabeth Duncan-the last female put to death before a national moratorium was instituted.

Mrs. McGibbon was installed as the first female Lieutenant Governor of Ontario in 1974, and thus became the first female Governor in Canada.

( The first female Governor in the Commonwealth was Dame Hilda Bynoe, Governor of Grenada 1968-1974.

The use of the term Supreme Governor as opposed to Supreme Head pacified Catholics and those Protestants concerned about a female leader of the Church of England.

* October 18-Iona Campagnolo, politician, first female Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

* October 1-Margaret McCain, philanthropist and first female Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick

In the early 17th century, there was widespread male and female prostitution throughout the cities of Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka.

Fusae Ohta ( 太田 房江 Ōta Fusae, born June 2, 1951 ) is a Japanese politician, a former governor of Osaka prefecture, and the country's first female prefectural governor.

born July 31, 1980 in Higashiōsaka, Osaka, Japan is a retired female Japanese popular music singer.

Cars reserved for female school students also ran in Osaka in the 1950s, but that and the " flower train " were discontinued in 1973.

( born April 10, 1950 ) is a female Japanese singer and television performer from, Ikuno-ku, Osaka.

Reduces losses from stomach, hookworm, and nodular worms by interfering with reproduction of the female worm by reducing the number of eggs laid and essentially rendering all laid eggs sterile.

In contrast, Ditmars recorded the average length of seventy-two young of a 19-foot female as 38 inches, and four young were born in London at a length of 35 or 36 inches and a weight of from 14 to 16 ounces.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

One female, collected on an island off the coast of Nicaragua, was gravid and measured 4 feet 8 inches from snout to vent ( her tail should be between 6 and 7 inches long ).

The female from Central America which gave birth to four was only 3 feet 11 inches long.

We hope thereby to emphasize that, from a psychological standpoint, the effectual prevention of illegitimacy is a continuous long-term process involving the socialization of the female from infancy through adolescence.

The main vocalisation is the male's loud advertisement call which seeks to both encourage a female to approach and discourage other males from intruding on its territory.

These trees differ from the birches ( Betula, the other genus in the family ) in that the female catkins are woody and do not disintegrate at maturity, opening to release the seeds in a similar manner to many conifer cones.

In Norse mythology, Ask and Embla ( from Old Norse Askr ok Embla )— male and female respectively — were the first two humans, created by the gods.

: huiotes ); according to Marcus, they are numbers and sounds ; in Valentinianism they form male / female pairs called " syzygies " ( Greek, from σύζυγοι syzygoi ).

The statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, is of a robed female figure representing Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, who bears a torch and a tablet evoking upon which is inscribed the date of the American Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.

Don Chisciotte was a mix of ballet and opera buffa, and the lead female roles in L ' amore innocente were designed to contrast and highlight the different traditions of operatic writing for soprano, even borrowing stylistic flourishes from opera-seria in the use of coloratura in what was a short pastoral comedy more in keeping with a Roman Intermezzo.

The verses therefore read: " And the lord provided a great fish ( dag gadol, masculine ) for Jonah, and it swallowed him, and Jonah sat in the belly of the fish ( still male ) for three days and nights ; then, from the belly of the ( daga, female ) fish, Jonah began to pray.

Eventually, a female from the group and the male appear to " select " each other and both engage in the dance of throwing objects and jumping.

Women in art were covered in clothing from the neck down, including female goddesses like Athena, the patron of Athens who represented heroic endeavor.

Some people show a sexual interest in female breasts distinct from that of the person, which may be regarded as a breast fetish.

In February 1997, cloning became the focus of media attention when Ian Wilmut and his colleagues at the Roslin Institute announced the successful cloning of a sheep, named Dolly, from the mammary glands of an adult female.

< p > One night a celebrated female impersonator came to the restaurant in all his regalia, directly from a club across the street.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

In the United States the dietary guidelines for daily chromium uptake were lowered from 50 – 200 µg for an adult to 35 µg ( adult male ) and to 25 µg ( adult female ).

Operating through small, child-sized vocal cords, their voices were also extraordinarily flexible, and quite different from the equivalent adult female voice.

They advocated women separate from " men who are not consciously working for female liberation ", but advised periods of celibacy.

* Cortical cords, structures that develop from sex cords in the female.

Where chloroplasts are inherited only from the female, transgenes in these plastids cannot be disseminated by pollen.