this day in Herstory
Posted 2/11/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Sacagawea has a baby with the help of Meriwether Lewis. Red Emma is arrested for lecturing on birth control. The first Black flight attendant is hired by Mohawk Airlines and Sylvia Plath doesn’t make it past 31. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/10/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
In Birthdays a big day for Opera singers. We also have Mary of Burgundy, The unsinkable Molly Brown, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in a Can. Keeping up we have women marathon runners, Willy Loman , Jack Paar being censored and The Andrew Sisters going #1. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/9/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Anti-Chinese (immigration) hysteria, debating Evolution, searching for Communist (terrorist) infiltration, the war on opium (Drugs), and the first gay episode on network TV. And a woman entrepreneur markets a herbal remedy to treat menstruation. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/8/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
a beheading and payola is found above the fold. In new technology we have Waterman’s fountain pen. Hardings radio, Carlson’s copier and Reverend Moon’s mass weddings. In Science and Leisure, Maud Slye proves that Cancer isn’t contagious and Kate Chopin’s fiction shocks Victorian Morality. . . . .
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this day in Herstory
Posted 2/7/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Amelia marries George, (Hillary and Richard in the movie) Women’s history month begins in March, so we offer a look into the future, by examining past census data. Speaking of money, we look at the origin of Uncle Pennybags, recent EEOC discrimination numbers against women and can you name the first black woman to be expelled from the University of Alabama. . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/6/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Sacrifice,
suffrage, succession and Mary Kay LeTtourneau. On the positive side we also
have Joan Payson, The miracle Mets, The
Righteous Bros and Natalie Cole.
43 AD - traditional date for the suicide of the
Vietnamese Trung sisters , Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, when face . . . .
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herstory this day
Posted 2/5/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Primogeniture Laws are abolished in Georgia, The detachable shirt Collar is created to fight ring around the Collar and the first peep show is cranked out thanks to the Mutoscope circa 1861. Then came Belle Starr, Pamela Harriman, Zsa, Zsa Gabor, poet Marianne Moore and painter Sarah Goodridge who inspired the Devil in Daniel Webster
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herstory this day
Posted 2/4/2010 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Mary Baker Eddy is healed by her faith. The Poll Tax is outlawed, Patty Hearst is kidnapped before turning outlaw. Betty Friedan dies on her birthday and Karen Carpenter’s death takes the mystique out of Anorexia. Birthday include Rosa Parks on Black history month and actor/director Ida Lupino. . . . .
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