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#OnThisDay, 14 Jan 2018, Katie Sarah becomes the first woman to complete the Seven-Seven, climbing the highest mountains and volcanoes on each continent.
Happy Birthday #Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh (1963). His films garnered fourteen Academy Award nominations, winning five.
Today is World #LogicDay.
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They protested six days a week until 1919, when the nineteenth amendment of the US constitution gave women the right to vote.
In practice, state restrictions on voters continued to limit some people’s right to vote.
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Archive news: https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0108/931726-mo-mowlam-visits-maze
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Hortense Sparks Ward, Hattie Leah Henenberg and Ruth Virginia Brazzil are appointed to hear a case involving the “Woodmen of the World” fraternal association.
The fraternity counted most judges and attorneys in the state as members. This meant the men had to recuse themselves: appointing women avoided conflict of interest.
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Perey was a student of Maria Skłodowska-Curie. She was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize but never received it.
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In the 1930s, she'd sung at the Lincoln Memorial in DC after being barred from performing at Constitution Hall due to her race.
Listen to her sing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68_5ZEtM_fQ
Learn more about her: https://carvehername.org.uk/eight-famous-women-singers/
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Eight famous women singers - Carve Her Name
We take a quick look at eight of the most famous female singers in opera history. These iconic women were as big as Bey in their day.MP&MH (Carve Her Name)
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Clive Gregson, singer/songwriter/musician/producer, various & solo, 1955
Brian Ray, guitar/vocals, Paul McCartney & others, 1955
John McLaughlin AKA Mahavishnu, guitar/songwriter/composer, various, 1942
William "Mickey" Stevenson, songwriter/producer at Motown, 1937
John Gorman, vocals, The Scaffold, 1936
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Cait O'Riordan, bass/composer, The Pogues, 1965
David Glasper, vocals, Breathe, 1965
Till Lindemann, singer/songwriter, Rammstein, 1963
Martin McAloon, bass, Prefab Sprout, 1962
Robin Guthrie, musician/songwriter/producer/composer, Cocteau Twins, 1962
John Michael Stipe, singer/songwriter/producer, R.E.M.,1960
Bernard Sumner, singer/songwriter/musician/producer, Joy Division, New Order, Electronic, 1956
Nels Cline, guitar/composer, Wilco, 1956
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Kathryn "Katie" Crutchfield AKA Waxahatchee, singer/songwriter/guitar, 1989
Timothy McKenzie AKA Labrinth, singer/rapper/songwriter/composer/producer, 1989
Ben Spivak, musician/vocals, Magic!, 1983
Tim Wheeler, singer/songwriter/musician, Ash, 1977
Christopher "Tricky" Stewart, producer/songwriter, various, 1974
Son of Dave AKA Ben Darvill, musician/vocals, Crash Test Dummies, 1967
Beth Gibbons, singer/songwriter/musician, Portishead, 1965
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
[Image credit: Mario Suriani/Associated Press]
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[1] "Issac Asimov", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov
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"January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other."
https://www.usg.edu/galileo/skills/unit07/internet07_02.phtml
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It became law in January 2021.
#HappyBirthday #77
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Joanna Levesque AKA JoJo, singer/songwriter/piano, 1990
Aaron Davies AKA Bugzy Malone, rapper/songwriter, 1990
Chris Edwards, bass, Kasabian, 1980
Graham Hopkins, drums, Therapy? and others, 1975
Chris Robinson, singer/guitar, The Black Crowes, 1966
Jacqueline Fuchs AKA Jackie Fox, bass, The Runaways, 1959
Billy Bragg, singer/songwriter/guitar, 1957
Mike Watt, bass/songwriter/vocals, Minutemen and others, 1957
Anita Ward, singer, 1956
She had co-led Ukraine’s 'Orange Revolution' in 2004-05, and held strong pro-EU views. In 2009, as Ukraine’s PM, she had to negotiate with Putin after Russia switched off the gas supply to the country. Tymoshenko was then imprisoned between 2011 and 2014, during Viktor Yanukovych’s presidency, in what was seen as a politically motivated case.
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