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An American suffragette with an umbrella stands next to a baby carriage and wears a sign proclaiming ‘Women! Use your vote,’ circa 1920.

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What is the meaning of international law at this point when some countries are allowed complete impunity to do whatever they want without consequences

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The Cascatelli, Tivoli, Looking Towards Rome (1832) by Thomas Cole

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Water painted by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 - 1900)

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Woman with a Tambourine, 1870

By Charles Soubre

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Studio portrait of a girl dressed as a highlander from Herzegovina. Taken in Budapest, 1898, by Vágó Bertalan. National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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в холоде летнего рассвета

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Something that we can do to practice our prayers for other people, is to use the random memories that may sometimes pop into our mind throughout the day. Remembering a joyful moment? Pray for all the people that were there with you. Remembering a heated argument? Pray for all the people that you were in that argument with. Remembering a time you were sad and were comforted? Pray for the people that comforted you.

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Jeanne Merkus - The “Joan of Arc of Serbia”

Jeanne Merkus (1839-1897) was a rich Dutch heiress. Her father had been Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia). Orphaned at a young age, she was adopted by her father’s brother, a vicar, and became a devout Protestant. Jeanne was also shaped by her discovery of feminism and socialism. She thus started to distribute her fortune among the poor and the sick.

Jeanne’s first military experience was in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian war. She was present during the Prussian siege of Paris as well as the ensuing insurrection of the Paris Commune in 1871. She was maybe one of these women who stood on the barricades and took care of the sick and the wounded. In 1872/3 she made a trip to Jerusalem.

By mid-december 1875, she had joined the anti-Ottoman rebellions in Herzegovina. Her motives were religious, she wrote in her memoirs:“I did not wish to nurse wounded soldiers, but to help liberate Christian people, and also Christ’s land, from the sovereignty of the Turks”. Her goal was thus to liberate the Balkans from Muslim rule and ultimately “recapturing” the Holy Land.

Jeanne carried bandages for the wounded and gave ample proof of her fighting abilities. She skillfully mined bridges, lured a pair of Turkish soldiers in an ambush, tried to blow-up a Turkish fortress on her own. Because of her boldness, the enemy nicknamed her “The red devil”. She was one of the bravest fighters during the battle at Ljubinje in 1876. She was, however, captured by Austrians on Turkish soil, but later liberated.

In March 1876, she headed for Belgrade in Serbia, a country who supported the insurrection in Herzegovina, even if it meant going to war with the Ottoman Empire. Dubbed the “amazon of Herzegovina” and the “Joan of Arc of Serbia” Jeanne was a major financial benefactor to the Serb war effort. She was thus able to refuse a traditional female role as a nurse and was allowed to fight in the ranks. She wore a uniform adapted from the local men’s dress, with a Montenegrin cap over her curly long hair and a man’s cape slung across her shoulder. Lieutenant-Colonal Gruka Miskovic, who was at the beginning skeptical of her presence, would later say that she was a “shining example” of courage in action.