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7 hours ago · The Movement Itself. Born in the Age of Reform, the organized women’s rights movement was specifically rooted in radical abolition. According to a long-accepted origins story, Sarah and Angelina Grimke, southern white women who came north and were encouraged by William Lloyd Garrison to testify against the evils of slavery, found they faced criticism for violating social customs and church ...
7 hours ago · The cities of Los Angeles, Paris, and Athens (excluding 1906) have each hosted two Summer Olympic Games. In 2024, France will host its third Summer Olympic Games in its capital, making Paris the second city ever to have hosted three Summer Olympics. In 2028, Los Angeles will in turn become the third city ever to have hosted the Games three times.
7 hours ago · As basketballs passed between men and women, Berenson did the work of rethinking the function and meaning of the female body. Significantly, Berenson—the “Mother of Women’s Basketball”—was a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. During her career as a physical educator, she made an expressed point of bringing the game to her coreligionists.
7 hours ago · This would also be the first time two people would light the Olympic flame, and Henderson would become only the second woman to do the honours. The duo would make a lap of the stadium and then climbed a staircase on a special dais at the centre of the stadium to set the Olympic flame alight in a temporary white aluminum cauldron.
7 hours ago · Consider sunscreen in direct sunlight. 3-5 Moderate - Take care during midday hours and do not spend too much time in the sun unprotected. Sunscreen advised. 6-7 High - Seek shade during midday hours, cover up and wear sunscreen. 8-10 Very high - Spend time in the shade between 11am and 3pm.
1 day ago · Joanna, not Chuza, appears once again in Luke 24:10 as one of the women who witnessed the angelic visitors who declared that Jesus rose from the dead. Not much can be determined about Chuza.
7 hours ago · The general history of ancient Greece and Rome is traced separately and then their contribution to the West is looked at under the headings Gods, Rulers, Thinkers, Writers, Artists and Historians. One theme recurs – in what sense was either ancient Greece or Rome civilised? 66,000 words, fully annotated, with chronology. 2. The Medieval West
