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Lucy: United States
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"Lucy is as important today as she was 30-plus years ago," says Penn State anthropologist Nina Jablonski. "Before Lucy, we really had no idea that 'early' hominids were small and very apelike in most attributes. Paleoanthropology has never been the same."
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A few of the young women, led by Lucy, organized the first debating society ever formed among college girls. At first they held their meetings secretly in the woods, with sentinels on the watch to give warming of intruders. When the weather grew colder, Lucy asked an old colored woman who owned a small house, the mother of one of her colored pupils, to let them have the use of her parlor. At first she was doubtful, fearing that the meetings might be a cover for flirtation; but when she found that the debating society was made up of girls only, she decided that it must be an innocent affair, and gave her consent. Her house was on the outskirts of the town, and the girls came one or two at a time, so as not to attract attention. Lucy opened the first formal meeting with the following statement:
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Lucy married Rutherford B. Hayes on December 30, 1852. Nine years older than Lucy, Rutherford was an attorney. He was Governor of Ohio for three terms, and served as 19th President of the United States, from 1877-1881.
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The prototype Lucy statue was unveiled today in a ceremony at the St. Paul Hotel. The city plans to have 103 of the statues placed at various locations this summer, similar to efforts made the past two summers with statues of Snoopy and Charlie Brown.
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Lucy's name is probably ... connected to statues of Lucy holding a dish with two eyes on it. This refers to another legend in which Lucy's eyes were put out by Diocletian as part of his torture. The legend concludes with God restoring Lucy's eyes.
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The teenage granddaughter of Peanuts cartoonist Charles Schulz is disappointed that the Lucy statue she designed has been stolen from a St. Paul park. But Stephanie Johnson is keeping the heist in perspective.
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