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These enormous, fire-breathing serpents have scaly green bodies and huge red wings. Greedy creatures, they hoard gold treasure in dens under the earth. Fierce and always hungry, a Western dragon will eat anything but especially likes weak, young, human flesh. Dragons live in caves, mountains, or lakes. They were particularly active in the Middle Ages, when brave knights challenged them to battle. Compared to Western dragons, these beasts are quite small....

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These women have followed in their mothers’ footsteps: Sarah Goddard was a printer in colonial America. Her daughter Katherine was the first to print the Declaration of Independence. Lucy Stone , one of the leaders of the nineteenth century women’s suffrage movement had a daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell (Blackwell was her father’s name). Alice was also a feminist and very active in the women’s rights movement. Elizabeth Cady Stanton ’s daughter, Harriet Stanton Blatch, organized the Equality League of Self-Supporting Women in 1907....