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  • ... that Mary Mellor argued that the COVID-19 pandemic increased the impact of the patriarchy on women, both at home and in the wider economy? (2025-01-04)
  • ... that Marie-Thérèse Eyquem served in the government of Vichy France, and was later appointed a national secretary of the French Socialist Party? (2025-01-02)
  • ... that Kathryn Maple won the Sunday Times Watercolour Competition twice in three years? (2025-01-02)
  • ... that Flora Hommel, after being afraid of giving birth to her own child, went on to teach the Lamaze technique to more than 17,000 couples? (2025-01-02)
  • ... that international adult figure skating champion Naz Arıcı learned to skate at the age of 29? (2024-12-28)
  • ... that ballet dancer Nina Tikhonova taught dance for free to children who had been orphaned during World War II? (2024-12-27)
  • ... that Christmas: A Biography states that, despite its Christian origins, Christmas has been mostly secular since its inception in the fourth century? (2024-12-24)
  • ... that Ritsuko Taho once had her students at Harvard University slaughter a chicken and turn its bones into a sculpture? (2024-12-22)
  • ... that Susan Finnegan was the first female head of the arachnids section at the Natural History Museum, London, but had to resign her job to marry? (2024-12-18)
  • ... that Amrita Sher-Gil painted a portrait of Helen Chaman Lall without expecting a fee? (2024-12-16)
  • ... that Gail Damerow was described by one magazine as "poultry's Cesar Millan"? (2024-12-15)
  • ... that Elin Falk caused a national controversy in 1913 with her proposals for reforming gymnastics in Swedish schools? (2024-12-14)
  • ... that Rada Dyson-Hudson was denied academic tenure at Johns Hopkins University and Cornell University despite her academic record and capabilities? (2024-12-11)
  • ... that Celeste Caeiro's actions led to the naming of the 1974 coup in Portugal as the Carnation Revolution? (2024-12-09)
  • ... that Annie Huggett, aged 103, was the oldest living suffragette at the time of her death in 1996? (2024-12-07)
  • ... that Marie Denizard (pictured) stood as a candidate in a French presidential election in 1913, thirty years before French women achieved suffrage? (2024-12-04)
  • ... that television director Diana Edwards-Jones introduced earpieces to permit direct communication between a control room and newsreaders? (2024-11-30)
  • ... that Shadia Abu Ghazaleh was one of the first women to join the Palestinian resistance to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank? (2024-11-29)
  • ... that the hips of some 19th-century Fijian young women were tattooed with veiqia when they reached puberty? (2024-11-28)
  • ... that Victoria Espinosa directed the first performance of The Public, almost 50 years after it was written? (2024-11-27)