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Jailed for Freedom by Doris Stevens & Angela P. Dodson
epub |eng | 2020-03-02 | Author:Doris Stevens & Angela P. Dodson

Superintendent Whittaker then shouted out in a loud tone of voice, “Seize these women, take them off, that one, that one,—take her off.” The guards rushed forward and an almost ...
( Category: Women in History March 10,2020 )
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone by Charles Moore
azw3 |eng | 2019-11-11 | Author:Charles Moore [Moore, Charles]

PART THREE Battles lost 15 A breach in the Wall ‘She may…use arguments about Moscow’s fears to cloak her own’ Mrs Thatcher’s interest in the transformation of South Africa was ...
( Category: Europe March 9,2020 )
The Pope's Children by David McWilliams
epub |eng | | Author:David McWilliams [McWilliams, David]

Chapter 12 Deckland — A State of Mind THE KELLS ANGELS, ‘ONLY AN HOUR FROM DUBLIN’ The original ‘only an hour from Dublin’ was immortalised in the broadest Navan accent ...
( Category: Economic History March 9,2020 )
Rebel Cinderella by Adam Hochschild
epub |eng | | Author:Adam Hochschild

12 I Didn’t Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier From what seemed a safe distance, Americans intently followed the war’s opening moves. New York crowds flocked to Times Square ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
Massacre on the Merrimack by Jay Atkinson
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Jay Atkinson

CHAPTER VIII Escape from Sugar Ball Island As light seeped in, revealing the narrow shoal, Hannah Duston rose from where she had squatted all night and woke her companions. While ...
( Category: United States March 9,2020 )
The Women's Revolution by Judy Cox;
epub |eng | 2019-06-17 | Author:Judy Cox;

9. ‘We carried the Revolution on our shoulders’78 On the evening of 10 October 1917, Alexandra Kollontai left her flat wearing an ornate hat and carrying the kind of umbrella ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 7,2020 )
America's Jewish Women by Pamela Nadell
epub |eng | 2019-02-23 | Author:Pamela Nadell

“A shande my daughter should marry a shaygetz.” IF LOVE was a foreign country, sometimes it led, not to the states of China or Connecticut, but to the land of ...
( Category: Women in History March 7,2020 )
Socialism Is Great! by Lijia Zhang
epub |eng | 2011-04-26 | Author:Lijia Zhang [Zhang, Lijia]

Baseness is the password of the base, Honor is the epitaph of the honorable. Look how the gilded sky is covered With the drifting, crooked shadows of the dead. The ...
( Category: Asian March 7,2020 )
How We Talked and Common Folks by Slone Verna Mae; Montgomery Michael; Slone Len
epub |eng | | Author:Slone, Verna Mae; Montgomery, Michael; Slone, Len

a. sage b. basswood c. mountain tea d. sweet anis e. buckeye (carried in pocket) f. dandeline (dandelion) greens g. dogwood h. jewel weed i. spinit j. wintergreen k. ratsvien ...
( Category: Women in History March 7,2020 )
Surviving State Terror by Barbara Sutton
epub |eng | | Author:Barbara Sutton

They brought me to what they called a camarote [ship’s cabin], which was a room where there was a compañera. During the day I was there, and at night I ...
( Category: History & Theory March 7,2020 )
The Happy Bottom Riding Club by Lauren Kessler
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Lauren Kessler [Kessler, Lauren]

13 Pancho’s Fly-Inn When the war ended and the U.S. government lifted the ban on civilian flying, Pancho quickly moved to reopen her field. But to her astonishment, her application ...
( Category: History March 6,2020 )
Aberration of Mind by Sommerville Diane Miller;
epub |eng | | Author:Sommerville, Diane Miller;

Chapter 8 Cumberer of the Earth The Secularization of Suffering and Suicide In destroying the instinct of self-preservation, creating it into self-destruction, the suicide is brave. We may well imagine ...
( Category: Women in History March 6,2020 )
Women on Ice by Wayne Norton
epub |eng | 2009-03-05 | Author:Wayne Norton [Norton, Wayne]

Alpine Cup The problem was fundamentally jurisdictional. The Alberta Amateur Hockey Association felt that its prerogatives were being trampled upon. It announced just a few days after the 1921 carnival ...
( Category: Women in History March 6,2020 )
The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Bhaskar Sunkara

IT’S HARD TO overstate the misery of prerevolutionary China or the ineptitude of nationalist rule. Between 1927 and 1949, the country had been mired in foreign invasion and civil war, ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism March 6,2020 )
Jewish Radical Feminism by Joyce Antler
epub |eng | | Author:Joyce Antler

Figure 5.2. The first meeting of B’not Esh, 1981. Courtesy of Martha Ackelsberg. As Plaskow has helped to create a transformative feminist Judaism, she has constantly transformed her own life. ...
( Category: Women in History March 6,2020 )

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