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The only thing that makes this a fairy story is the idea that we could ever all be there together. And that is what makes it so unfair. It is such a simple fairy story.

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Fathimath Saeed (1916 – 1990) was a Maldivian poet and writer who also served as the inaugural first lady of the Maldives! Her nickname was "Dhivehi lhenverikamuge gulshanuge narugis maa" (the white rain lily garden of the Maldivian poetry).

"Keeping up with the steps of the times, don't you understand that new situations are because of the new music you hear now?"

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How Long - Sister Ola Mae Terrell

1948

Timeless. Haunting. Essential gospel blues

There’s a specific kind of magic in the way Ola Mae Terrell’s thumb maintains that steady, driving rhythm while her voice carries so much soul.

'How Long' isn't just a song; it's an atmosphere.

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Vintage Elizabeth Arden ad for lipstick developed to match the U.S. Marine Corps uniform hat stripe, ranks, and blood stripes. Montezuma red is still authorized in dress uniforms in the U.S. Marine Corps for women.

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Two women helping in the war effort. 7/24/1943

Series: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. 

via @fdrlibrary

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Serbian girls from Bukovica (Croatia) who brought clothes and food to the Partisans, 1944.

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Ladies of the Big House (1931) Dir. Marion Gering

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Nina Leen. Paris dressmakers, 1946.

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Aviatrix Sweaters (American, 1930s), designed by Lucille M. Dingley (1911-2003). ASU FIDM Museum.

These 1930s sweaters bear labels indicating Lucille M. Dingley designed them “exclusively for women flyers.” Dingley knew a thing or two about flying: she was a U.S. Women Army Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II, the manager of the Auburn-Lewiston Airfield in Maine, and a member of the Ninety-Nines, the Sportsman Pilot Association, and the Whirley Girl Helicopter Club. It’s unknown if Dingley designed the patterns or simply lent her name to the fashions, but the flight diagrams rendered on these hand-knit tops were lifted directly from the aeronautic textbooks a whole new generation of adventurous women were studying in flight schools

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"There are stars whose radiance is visible on Earth though they have long been extinct. There are people whose brilliance continues to light the world though they are no longer among the living. These lights are particularly bright when the night is dark. They light the way for humankind."

~ Hannah Senesh, poet, playwright, and paratrooper (17 Jul 1921-1944)

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“My mother, her sister, and parents arrived in 1934 from Germany; my grandmother saw the writing on the wall early. Nobody else in her family was persuaded that Hitler’s rise was not a temporary aberration, and they stayed behind.”

~ Liora Moriel; The New Revisioning; The Jerusalem Report (Israel); Jun 26, 2023.

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Naval despatch rider - via old humpers

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Happy birthday to Lyudmila Pavlichenko (born July 12, 1916), Soviet sniper in World War II, with 309 confirmed kills.

A true role model for today.

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Joe Loss & His Band

There’s a Land of Begin Again

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Louise Dahl-Wolfe, American photographer Harper’s Bazaar, July 1939

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Miriam Hopkins for She Loves Me Not, 1934

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Simone Veil (1927-2017) was a French lawyer and politician. She survived Auschwitz-Birkenau but lost most of her family during WWII. After the war, she studied political science at the University of Paris and became an attorney. In 1964 she got the post of Director of Civil Affairs, where she worked on improving the general rights and status of French women.

She is most known for legalizing abortion in France as Minister of Health in 1975. She stayed active in French politics until 2007 at the age of 80.

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Part of the contingent of 215 WACs aboard the Army transport Edmund B. Alexander waves goodbye from the deck of the converted German liner Amerika, as they get ready to leave New York for Europe, July 12, 1945. The women volunteered for overseas service and will replace soldiers and WACs now serving in England, France, and Germany.

Photo: Anthony Camerano for the AP