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From Miniskirt to Hijab by Jacqueline Saper
epub |eng | | Author:Jacqueline Saper

17 The Sacred Defense Local coverage of the Iran-Iraq War was constant. We were barraged 24-7 with news footage of buildings flattened to rubble and dead bodies scattered about and ...
( Category: Women in History October 12,2019 )
According to Kate by Chris Enss
epub |eng | 2019-07-26 | Author:Chris Enss

Wyatt Earp COURTESY OF THE ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, AHS 11374 Kate planned to leave town as soon as she knew Doc was out of harm’s way. She was aware she ...
( Category: Women in History October 12,2019 )
Invisible Women of Prehistory by Marlene Derlet
epub |eng | 2019-10-09 | Author:Marlene Derlet

1. Cylindrical stone with human head (perhaps a pestle?) 20,000–10,000 BP; and an incised pebble with female image (Source: Barnes, Gina, 1993) All line drawings © Judy Foster, 2013 Japan ...
( Category: Women in History October 11,2019 )
Cilka's Journey by Heather Morris
epub |eng | | Author:Heather Morris

* * * “Did you get the disease? Have you had symptoms?” “No and no,” Cilka says, her mind numb. “That means you probably have an immunity to it, meaning ...
( Category: Jewish October 9,2019 )
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton
epub |eng | 2019-09-30 | Author:Hillary Rodham Clinton & Chelsea Clinton

“I wanted to challenge the narrative that Muslim women are meek and docile and oppressed. Being unapologetically Muslim, black, a woman… Either you like it or you don’t, and I ...
( Category: Women October 8,2019 )
The Jefferson-Hemings Controversy by Robert F Turner
mobi |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Robert F Turner

* * * Footnotes 1. FAWN BRODIE, THOMAS JEFFERSON 229 (1974). 2. Id. 3. Garry Wills, Uncle Thomas’s Cabin, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, Apr. 18, 1974 at 27. 4. ...
( Category: Women in History October 7,2019 )
This Victorian Life by Sarah A. Chrisman
epub |eng | 2015-10-05 | Author:Sarah A. Chrisman

Even in the best of households, though, the bread sometimes failed. Yeast is a finicky organism. As Mrs. Beeton said, “Extremes of cold and heat kill it, and a temperature ...
( Category: Women October 6,2019 )
A Guest of the Reich by Peter Finn
epub |eng | 2019-09-23 | Author:Peter Finn

* * * — At the lakeside villa, Gertie was mostly surrounded by true believers who had absorbed (or at least appeared to have) the relentlessly promulgated Nazi line that ...
( Category: World War II October 5,2019 )
Yale Needs Women by Anne Gardiner Perkins
epub |eng | | Author:Anne Gardiner Perkins

TEN Reinforcements As the Yale Corporation met in New Haven that December and decided once again to leave Yale’s gender quotas unchanged, a fundamental shift was occurring in Washington, DC. ...
( Category: Women in History September 27,2019 )
The Incomplete, True, Authentic, and Wonderful History of May Day (Spectre) by Peter Linebaugh
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-03-31 | Author:Peter Linebaugh [Linebaugh, Peter]

Black Panthers Although the symbol itself arose from the voter registration campaigns of the south (Lowndes County), the Black Panther Party, founded in 1966, quickly became an organization of the ...
( Category: Democracy September 20,2019 )
Passionate Spirit by Cate Haste
epub |eng | | Author:Cate Haste

11 Conflict, 1921–31 Franz Werfel was overjoyed and relieved at the news of Alma’s divorce: ‘I could just weep incessantly,’1 he told her, and took Alma to meet his parents, ...
( Category: Composers & Musicians September 17,2019 )
Titanic, First Accounts by Tim Maltin
epub |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Tim Maltin [Maltin, Tim]

Mrs. C. E. H. Stengel, first-class passenger, writes as follows: “As I stepped into the lifeboat an officer in charge said: ‘No more; the boat is full.’ My husband stepped ...
( Category: Maritime History & Piracy September 6,2019 )
Archaeology from Space by Sarah Parcak
epub |eng | | Author:Sarah Parcak

Upmarket Afterlife Property Like other Middle Kingdom tombs that aimed high—even higher than the nomarchs of the Old Kingdom—this tomb had, when new, sought to imitate a pyramid’s front driveway. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight September 6,2019 )
The Lady in Red: An Eighteenth-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce by Hallie Rubenhold
epub |eng | 2010-08-16 | Author:Hallie Rubenhold [Rubenhold, Hallie]

… Lady Worsley used to come to the cold bath near Maidstone to bathe, and that she [Marriott] used to attend her; that Sir Richard and Mr Bissett [sic] were ...
( Category: Women in History September 6,2019 )
American Legends- Abbott & Costello by Charles River Editors
epub |eng | 2014-05-21 | Author:Charles River Editors [Editors, Charles River]

It wouldn’t have been a surprise for Costello to retire to his home for a lengthy mourning period, and he later admitted he was tempted to do just that: “I ...
( Category: American Civil War September 5,2019 )

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