Jane Addams's Birth Card: The 5 of Diamonds

In the record

Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. The birth-card coordinate for September 6 is the 5 of Diamonds — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1931 Peace prize.

Nobel Prize record

• 1931 The Nobel Peace Prize — for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind

The 5 of Diamonds coordinate

Jane Addams's birthday maps to the 5 of Diamonds (The Dynamic Entrepreneur). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on Jane Addams. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed.

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Jane Addams in the public record

She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers. An advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931 Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the win with Nicholas Murray Butler. Earlier, Addams was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1910, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Addams helped America address and focus on issues that were of concern to mothers, as well as the domestic work assigned to women, such as the needs of children, local public health, and world peace.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Jane Addams (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the 5 of Diamonds

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Jane Addams, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.

You adjust the resource plan when the ground moves, without pretending nothing changed. You crave variety in resources and experiences. You get bored with one income stream, one investment, one way of working. You need novelty and freedom in your material life.

Addams helped America address and focus on issues that were of concern to mothers, as well as the domestic work assigned to women, such as the needs of children, local public health, and world peace.

Paired on shared wording: needs, work.

Also on the record

1. In her essay "Utilization of Women in City Government", Addams noted the connection between the workings of government and the household, stating that many departments of government, such as sanitation and the schooling of children, could be traced back to traditional women's roles in the private sphere.
2. When she died in 1935, Addams was the best-known female public figure in the United States.

Other laureates with this card

• Alan Heeger — 2000 Chemistry
• Alice Munro — 2013 Literature
• Anatole France — 1921 Literature
• Bert Sakmann — 1991 Physiology or Medicine
• Christopher A. Pissarides — 2010 Economic Sciences
• Claudia Goldin — 2023 Economic Sciences
• Edward V. Appleton — 1947 Physics
• Ernest Lawrence — 1939 Physics
• F.W. de Klerk — 1993 Peace
• Fritz Lipmann — 1953 Physiology or Medicine
• George F. Smoot — 2006 Physics
• John Macleod — 1923 Physiology or Medicine
• 16 more laureates share this card.

FAQ

What is Jane Addams's birth card?

The 5 of Diamonds. September 6 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.

Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?

No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.

Where do Jane Addams's dates come from?

Birth date 1860-09-06 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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