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What's your favorite childhood TV show?
i thought about this for quite a while and i dont really remember but i really liked sofia the 1st and a slovak cartoon Jurošík about a slovak bandit (like robin hood but slovak)
ps: sorry for such a late reply but i genuenly couldnt decide
I know this is far from my usual posts but I’m working on a very interesting project for school and I feel compared to share the Slovak national treasure that is Izabela Textorisová.
She’s the first female slovak botanist and throughout her career created a herbarium, “Herbarium Textoris” with over 4000 plants documented in it. It’s still used by botanists in Slovak to this day and is particularly valuable because it contains many species that have gone extinct.
Izabela has written other articles and pieces that are still of value, but one of her greatest contributions has to be the discovery of a new species of thistle later named after her, “Carduus Textorisanus Marg.”
But you know what’s coolest about her?
She managed all of this despite never getting a proper education, working as a post officer and taking care of her grandmother and later her sisters and parents as well.
She would study late into the evenings after work. She learnt several foreign languages (the number is different from source to source but they’re usually around 6-7), and continued her studies in biology.
Izabela Textorisová managed to become an equal to many other botanists, both of Slovak and foreign origin, despite all the odds playing against her.
She’s an underrated icon that’s worth looking into if you happen to be interested in Slovak history or just interesting historical figures in general. However, to may dismay, there aren’t many sources about her out there.
