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  • Sister Josepha is very proud that her tailoring raised her family's status and economic well-being.

    Women of God 2002

  • Sister Josepha is very proud that her tailoring raised her family's status and economic well-being.

    Women of God 2002

  • A terrific sandstorm came up, and the outfit became lost on the desert, where men and teams wandered about without water for many perilous hours, some time in the midst of which the human atom afterward called Josepha was found.

    The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906

  • In fact, one time, Josepha Sherman called "Kate!" across a table to get my attention and I answered automatically and as unthinkingly as if it were my real name.

    kateelliott: Pseudonymity kateelliott 2009

  • The state of New York made it an annual custom in 1817, but we have Sarah Josepha Hale to thank for creating the custom we know today.

    Five Fun Facts About Thanksgiving | myFiveBest 2009

  • Lithograph, Home To Thanksgiving 1867In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, [8] proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:

    Happy Thanksgiving (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • Josepha von Koskull recalled the many horror stories that did the rounds, 'about being buried alive, about charred bodies that were shrunk to the size of small children, and that could be buried in a margarine tub.

    Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • In fact, one time, Josepha Sherman called "Kate!" across a table to get my attention and I answered automatically and as unthinkingly as if it were my real name.

    Pseudonymity kateelliott 2009

  • Josepha von Koskull recalled the many horror stories that did the rounds, 'about being buried alive, about charred bodies that were shrunk to the size of small children, and that could be buried in a margarine tub.

    Roger Moorhouse's "Berlin at War," reviewed by Jonathan Yardley Jonathan Yardley 2010

  • Jane Josepha Yesler was a native of Rumson, N.J., and was a 1968 graduate of West Virginia University.

    Jane Y. Kusic, expert on white-collar crime Post 2010

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