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May 10, 2024 · VIEWS. Ilon Specht, who rebelled against her patriarchal male colleagues at an advertising agency by writing a successful TV commercial for L’Oréal’s Preference hair color product that included a message of feminist empowerment that has endured for decades, died on April 20 at her son’s home in Barrington, R.I., near Providence. She was 81.
2 days ago · Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, ISBN: 9781403938169; 253pp.; Price: £55.00. The 1950s is a comparatively under-researched area for gender studies. Anyone wanting to understand the constructed gender roles which underpinned not only girls' and women's lives but also those of boys and ...
May 15, 2024 · Primary Sources: The 1960s: Women. Women hold up signs demanding equal rights during a demonstration for women's liberation, New York City, circa 1968. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) 24th August 1967: A young woman typing at a teleprinter unit at a GPO computerised telecommunications time share station.
Apr 27, 2024 · Apr. 26, 2024, 3:23 AM ET (Washington Post) Olga Fikotová Connolly, discus champion in Olympic romance, dies at 91. Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games, athletic festival held in Melbourne that took place November 22–December 8, 1956. The Melbourne Games were the 13th occurrence of the modern Olympic Games. Olympic flame in 1956.
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2 days ago · Equestrian sports were first included in the Olympic Games in the Summer Olympics of 1900 in Paris. [1] They were again included in 1912, and have been included in every subsequent edition of the Games. [2] Currently, the Olympic equestrian disciplines are dressage, eventing, and show-jumping. [3]
3 days ago · Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot ( / brɪˌʒiːtbɑːrˈdoʊ / ⓘ brizh-EET bar-DOH; French: [bʁiʒit baʁdo] ⓘ; born 28 September 1934), often referred to by her initials B.B., [1] [2] is a French animal rights activist and former actress, singer, and model. Famous for portraying sexually emancipated characters, often with hedonistic lifestyles ...
2 days ago · 06 = The View from Castle Rock – 2006. 09 = Too Much Happiness – 2009. 12 = Dear Life – 2012. Compilations. s96 = Selected Stories – 1996. s03 = No Love Lost – 2003. s04 = Vintage Munro – 2004. s06 = Alice Munro's Best: A Selection of Stories – Toronto 2006/ Carried Away: A Selection of Stories – New York 2006; both with an ...
