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"This hateful American #War has frighten'd us not a little — [New Brunswick] has not as yet suffer'd much by it — But there is horrible work in upper Canada"
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#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.
As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.
The Irish-born Herbert had been operating as a courier - moving messages and equipment around - for over a year. She'd also had a baby whilst in France.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #Histodons
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Her groundbreaking sea floor discovery was dismissed as 'girl talk.' But science proved her right.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/marie-tharp-tectonic-discovery
#OnThisDay, 17 Feb 1905, a statue of Frances Willard is unveiled in the US Capitol's National Statuary Hall. Helen Farnsworth Mears's stature of Willard was the first statue of a woman to be included in the Hall.
More about the statue here: https://www.aoc.gov/explore-capitol-campus/art/frances-willard-statue
#StatuesOfWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons
„Aussichten: Leichter Schneefall, im Norden Dauerfrost.“ Geht nicht raus ohne Schal. Als politisches Statement, das auf Beige-Grau-Ödnis pfeift: https://dietzberlin.de/fanschal-rosa-luxemburg
#rosaluxemburg #luxemburg #fanschal #socialist #leftist #linke #womeninhistory #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #schal #winter #rosaluxemburgultras
Teen Freedom Seeker: How 15-Year-Old Anna Maria Weems Escaped Slavery Disguised as a Boy https://shinemycrown.com/teen-freedom-seeker-how-15-year-old-anna-maria-weems-escaped-slavery-disguised-as-a-boy/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Freedom #EscapeSlavery #TeenHero #HistoricalFigures #WomenInHistory
Honoring Dr. Flemmie P. Kittrell: She Pioneered Child Nutrition and Head Start https://shinemycrown.com/honoring-dr-flemmie-p-kittrell-she-pioneered-child-nutrition-and-head-start/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #BlackHistoryMonth #ChildNutrition #WomenInHistory #PhD #NutritionPioneer
"#Onthisday in 1903, Olive Ann Beech (née Mellor) was born in Kansas. She began her aviation career as a bookkeeper and secretary at Travel Air Manufacturing Company in 1925. She soon moved up in the company to become the personal secretary of Walter Beech, one of the co-founders of Travel Air Manufacturing Company. They married in 1930 and when that company was sold, Walter and Olive Ann established their own company, Beechcraft in 1932. When Walter became ill in 1940, she took control of the company, and when he died in 1950, she became company president, becoming the first woman to head a major aircraft corporation. She led the company through WWII, the space race into the 1980s. In 1980, the Raytheon Company acquired Beechcraft and Olive Ann was elected to the Board of Directors. " This was posted to our Instagram account on September 25, 2019 – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/instagram/1729356061/
#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1907, around 15 suffragettes rush into the lobby of the House of Commons in London: around 60 more are arrested outside.
The picture shows their release the next day.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Feb 1881, Herbertine Auclert publishes the first edition of La Citoyenne in Paris, France. The feminist newspaper runs for ten years.
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Whooooo endlich wieder da: unser Rosa Luxemburg-Fanschal, rechtzeitig zum Winter-Comeback. „Die Zeiten sind schlimm und verworren – und doch, trotz alledem, behalten Sie nur den Kopf hoch“, schrieb sie 1918. Hält warm & erfreut, wem ihr Werk viel bedeutet: https://dietzberlin.de/fanschal-rosa-luxemburg
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Dank an @sabinenuss (»Der verdrängte Kapitalismus«) für die kleine spontane Foto-Session 😘
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India commemorates Sarojini Naidu’s birth anniversary, celebrating her journey as a literary icon, nationalist leader, and a pioneering woman in public life. https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/india/sarojini-naidu-birth-anniversary-nightingale-india-sp3cq4mf?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SarojiniNaidu #BirthAnniversary #NightingaleOfIndia #WomenInHistory
Jenny Marx, #OTD 1814 geboren, organisiert das Geschäft ihres Gatten Karl, eines politisch verfolgten Gesellschaftstheoretikers. Sie bringt sein Werk voran, flüchtet mit ihm nach Paris, Brüssel, London, bringt 7 Kinder zur Welt und gibt nie auf. Her story: https://dietzberlin.de/jenny-marx-die-biographie
#jennymarx #socialist #marx #karlmarx #daskapital #marxengels #marxengelswerke #herstory #feminismus #women #womeninhistory #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #bookstodon #marxsky #biografie
#OnThisDay, 12 Feb 1983, around 200 to 300 women protested the Law of Evidence in Lahore. The law effectively made women’s testimonies worth half that of men’s.
The police used tear-gas and batons before arresting 50 of the protestors. The day is now Pakistan's Women's Day.
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Germany's Carina Vogt (pictured) wins gold.
Previous objections to the event included a man saying, in 2005, that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *2005*.
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.
Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.
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Phyllis Munday: Conqueror of the Rockies
Mountaineer and naturalist Phyllis Munday was a true trailblazer. In 1924, she and Annette Buck were the first women to summit Mount Robson, the highest peak in the Canadian Rockies. A skilled cartographer, she also mapped over 180 square kilometres of BC's wilderness, a significant contribution to Canadian geography. #Canada #Mountaineering #WomenInHistory #CanadaIsAwesome 🇨🇦
Catherine de Medici: The Orphaned Italian Girl That Seized The French Throne
From orphan to "The Serpent Queen." Discover the ruthless political genius of Catherine de Medici and how she navigated the deadly intrigues of the French court to become one of history’s most powerful women.
#History #CatherineDeMedici #FrenchHistory #Royalty #HistoricalFigures #WomenInHistory
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