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A lady in London just made significant history. Who is she and what did she do?
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#85315. Asked by star_gazer. (Sep 03 07 9:09 PM)
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zbeckabee

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The first woman to join the ranks of the Beefeaters in more than 500 years has mastered the Ceremony of the Keys, the nightly locking-up ritual of the Tower of London guards.
Moira Cameron, who is the first woman to serve as a Yeoman Warder at the Tower of London, Monday September 3, 2007, joining the 35 guards who protect the Crown Jewels. Cameron, a Warrant Officer Class 2 who joined the army at age 16, and now joins the Yeoman Warders, known as Beefeaters, as the first woman to serve here since the corps was created in 1485.
http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2007/09/03/ap/headlines/d8re63ng1.txt
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