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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)

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Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Jaromil Jires | 1970

Jaroslava Schallerová

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On this day, 9 March 1914, women battled police in Glasgow during Emmeline Pankhurst’s speaking tour of Scotland. The famous suffragette had been temporarily released from prison to nullify her hunger strike, but now the police sought to rearrest her so she would serve the remainder of her sentence. What they didn’t expect was an organised bodyguard. Pankhurst’s protectors had barbed wire concealed in flower bouquets and clubs concealed in dresses. Some had undertaken martial arts training, and they carried at least one gun. The Glasgow Herald reported that “Unparalleled scenes of disorder took place. The police stormed the platform and for several minutes a fierce struggle took place between them and Mrs Pankhurst’s supporters, several persons being injured. Flower pots and chairs were thrown at the constables, who were obliged to draw their batons. In the course of the mêlée the excitement was intensified by a woman firing several blank rounds from a revolver.” * We get no funding from any political parties, unions, organisations or corporations, and our work is funded entirely by our readers on listeners and patreon. So if you appreciate our content please consider supporting us and getting access to exclusive content and benefits at https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory Pictured: cartoon depicting a jiu-jitsu-trained suffragette https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1937842539734220/?type=3

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Medieval island: Le Mont-Saint-Michel in Normandy, France.

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Roman Mold-Blown Perfume Bottle, 3-4th century CE

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Birthday Cake {Funfetti Cake}

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Anežka (Agnes) Kašpárková

(via 90-Year-Old Czech Grandma Turns Small Village Into Her Art Gallery By Hand-Painting Flowers On Its Houses | Bored Panda)

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Missouri, April 11, 1909

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Forget-Me-Nots

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Blowing in the Wind by Cees Bol

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On this day, 26 February 1906, orange carriers in the town of Cerbère, France, on the border with Spain went on strike, in the first recorded strike in the country by entirely women workers. Oranges at the time were the only luxury winter fruit in much of Europe, which arrived in France by train. They then had to be carried in bags of 15-20 kg by women workers onto other trains which would transport them elsewhere across the continent. The orange carriers had been promised a 25 centime pay increase in 1903, which had not materialised. So on February 26, they eventually decided to stop work, with 175 of the 190 workers joining the strike. The few scabs were unable to unload most of the trains, so traffic to the border was completely blocked by the action, and so employers agreed to implement pay increase after just 24-hours. In the wake of the victory, the women formed their own union, and continued to organise, winning other disputes later that year. * If you value our work researching and promoting history like this, consider joining us on patreon, where you can also access exclusive content and benefits: https://patreon.com/workingclasshistory https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1929745233877284/?type=3

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Mexican artist Gabriel Dawe creates a rainbow sculpture woven from over sixty miles of colored thread.

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Giselle (Bolshoi Ballet) 

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Emma Shawl by Elena Bojkova on Ravelry

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SATURDAY REVIEW, February 21, 1953. Scrabble actually had been around since 1938, but only became popular after Selchow & Righter acquired the game in 1952.

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Gold marriage ring, Byzantine Empire, 6th-7th century BC

from The Royal Ontario Museum