After conservative activist Mary Whitehouse successfully campaigned to stop Alice Cooper's School's Out from being shown on the BBC music show Top of the Pops, Cooper sent her a bunch of flowers, since he believed the publicity helped the song to reach number one.
In the mid 1890s Mary Whiton Caulkins completed all requirements towards a PhD in Psychology, but Harvard University refused to award her the degree because she was a woman.
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