

Jocelyn Sears
Joined: Apr 9, 2015
Jocelyn Sears is former a staff researcher for Mental Floss, a poet, and a dog enthusiast. She is strongly in favor of the Oxford comma.




During colonial times and in the earliest days of the U.S., a small number of women managed to vote despite circumstances stacked against them.
“I felt the first time the first woman had a chance to say no to war, she should say it.”
As Labor Secretary, she tried to save Jews fleeing the Nazi regime.
Some of the methods proposed for “reducing” were downright bizarre—and even dangerous.
She was the first female presidential candidate to receive votes.
Landes thought women were better-suited than men to be mayor, and Seattle agreed, at least for a while.
5. Officials have forbidden the sale of alcohol there for over a century.
Two political pioneers staged a "Pantsuit Revolution." But it probably should've been easier than it was.
Advocating for a son with cerebral palsy helped propel her into government work.
As a tourism official, her father green-lighted the Las Vegas slogan “What happens here stays here.”
Photographers and cultural critics have long debated the ethics of retouching—even when it took place directly on the negative in the 19th century.
While the United States population has become less religious in recent years, the overwhelming majority of Americans still identify as Protestant or Catholic.