Depending on the species, catfish can live from eight to 20 years though the Mekong giant catfish lives more than 60 years. Almost 3,000 species of catfish have been catalogued throughout the world, but it is thought that as many as 4,500 exist. Continue Reading
Women played an important role in scouting and finding supplies and food, and some lost their lives on the battlefield trying to obtain goods from wounded or dead soldiers. At Valley Forge, it is estimated that women averaged 1 to every 44 men, adding up to around 500 women, although there are no reliable figures for this number.
AERA, AWSA, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, NWSA, race and suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony, woman suffrage. âby Leah Shafer, USCHS intern. Ironically, the women so willing to disguise themselves to fight in the Civil War and preserve American liberty had few rights of their own. The womenâs suffrage movement, which most historians cite as beginning at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, consequently gained a huge following in the years following the Civil War.