What a lovely and kind woman. Took a lot of guts to do that. ❤️

Wow! I'm even more impressed as I would be squeamish about bringing the red ants along.

Just think of the phenominal strides in science and arts that have been squandered because of the rascist numbnuts..

Wonderful. And if anyone wonders, No, Luz is nor a German name. It's just his nick name.

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I would hope I could have done this, but I don't know. The organization and planning it must have taken would have probably been beyond my capabilities.

I still vividly remember doing the Terry Fox “run” during elementary school (here in Canada) where we’d all go out with the teachers and take a long walk around the blocks surrounding the school in honour of him. Definitely a national treasure and I still have mad respect for him to this day.

Interesting that there is no "values displayed" section here.

He, and his wife, are recognised as heroes in Israel. Both were given citizenship and pensions (but they didn't live together).

"Humans of Socrates 9: Simon the Cat"? Everyone knows cats are often (usually? always?) better than humans, so he should have had a much higher honour. 😉

Billie Jean! Billie Jean!

I was a kid then but I remember this, and remember a (male) neighbor saying "She's not really a woman." Grrr.

Yeah, but more recently in Australia, no 1 from women lost to a number 200 man ... 🤫

I don’t want to take anything away from her, but I just read about eight people who saved lives and changed the course of history, and then reading about a tennis match (which I can remember) seems awfully inconsequential. But only in THIS list. On a list of accomplished women, this’d certainly be a highlight. I’m just thinking of these people meeting: “I saved thousands of lives. What’s you do?” “I played a tennis match.” 😞 (I spose I should save my disappointment until after I’ve read more of these, huh?)

I think there was a movie in this.. i must have seen it ages back

It was later revealed that the matched was all staged and he let her win.

I was diagnosed with my first ulcer in the very early 70s, as a young child. This man made a world of difference in my life. Conventional medical thinking in the 60s and 70s said that ulcers were caused by stress and diet. A bland, "white" diet was prescribed. Milk, white bread, cottage cheese, and never anything flavorful or spicy. Needless to say, it didn't help. Getting antibiotics for my ulcers in the late 80s did. A truly life changing moment for me.

Rosemary Kennedy didn't have "an intellectual disability" she had mental health issues, which lead to her dear old daddy Joe, ordering a Lobotomy for her in 1941 in an effort to "calm her down" so she wasn't an embarrassment. The "procedure" was a disaster, Rosemary was left almost completely disabled, dear old dad sent her to a psychiatric facility for 7 years, before sending her to catholic care home. He told none in the rest of the family about any of this, it was presumed that she had simply "run off" He didn't see her for the rest of his life, and the rest of the family went two decades presuming her dead or simply missing before learning what their father did upon his having a stroke. Modern medicine has deduced that Rosemary was likely BIPOLAR. To say that she had "intellectual disabilities" implies she simply was dealt a bad hand, perpetuates the myth of the Kennedys, and dismisses the immense progress of society in regards to not only mental health, but the treatment of women

I think there was a movie about this

it's crazy to think that the a nuclear war could have started due to a miscommunication

Allways!

Enigma code was broken by Marian Rejewski. Turnig developed the solution presented to him by Rejewski, which was later confirmed by Sir Dermot Turing in his book. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06149-y

Interesting facts: 1) He's now on our money. and 2) My mother was on the same ward as him in 1990 in the Park Lane Clinic. She said he would come past in his dressing gown and greet everyone. I didn't see him (was too shy to even go near his room) but I did see Winnie when she walked past! And when Walter Sisulu came to see him, my mother piped up, "Hello, Mr Sisulu!" My mom said he looked at her like, 'How do you know who I am?' My mom said to me, "I watch the news! I knew who he was!!" LOL.

Yes, Claudette Colvin did not receive the same attention as Rosa Parks, but given the attitude of white people at the time, it made more political sense to use Rosa Parks to highlight bus discrimination. She was in no less danger than Claudette Colvin, however, and was still very brave for doing what she did.

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Bit of copy and paste going on in these. The Sarah Sands article has the same "It didn't slow down the nightmares....."

Meanwhile, look at the way Kaepernick was treated. We have short memories...

But she's only concerned for the rights of ethnic Burmese. She fine with the murderous persecution of minority tribes in the North by her own military in recent years.

Gandhi had feet of clay. He firmly believed in the caste system, just not untouchability."These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the caste system.”

Sorry, but not quite in the same league as the others, not to mention her statements about her beliefs regarding human sexuality.