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5 votes
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Balbastre - Pieces de Clavecin (1759)
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On 8 March, 1910 Raymonde de Laroche became the world's first licensed female pilot
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the...
I don't really have any cool articles about de Laroche besides the Wikipedia page on her, but it is quite good and a shortish read, so very worthwhile. There is also this short article from the University of Houston, complete with a 3-minute audio version.
The week of 8 March is also International Women of Aviation Week, celebrating all the female aviators (people are getting away from using gender-specific words like aviatrix that weren't necessary in English anyway), including Jacqueline Cochran, the wartime head of Women Airforce Service Pilots in the U.S. and who would go on to be the first woman to break the sound barrier; Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman, the first African-American and Native American woman aviator and presumably the first licensed female pilot of mixed race to participate in air races and barnstorming stunt shows across the U.S. and Europe; Leah Hing, the first Chinese-American female pilot and who started her own flight school after the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931; among many other women past and present who are earning their pilot's license.
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There was a flawless space mission on Thursday — it wasn’t SpaceX
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Armand Duplantis improved his own men's pole vault world record to 6.27m at the All Star Perche event in Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Michel Jonasz - En v'la du slow en v'la (1978)
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Woodkid - Goliath (2020)
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The disturbing tweets blowing up Emilia Pérez’s Oscars campaign
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Julie Delpy to receive lifetime honor at Sweden's Gothenburg Film Festival – French multi-hyphenate will be honored with the 2025 Honorary Dragon Award
10 votes -
Thomas Meurot takes us behind the lens of his Sony award-winning photography project Kald Sòl – a raw, black-and-white exploration of cold-water surfing in Iceland
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How France uncovered the mystery of the forbidden photos of Nazi-occupied Paris
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Coinage and the tyranny of fantasy ‘gold’
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Clothing steeped in history and meaning: Inside the 'Shōgun' costumes
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Prosecutors in Sweden have closed an inquiry into a case of alleged rape, which Swedish media had linked to French football captain Kylian Mbappé
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Archaeological dig at Notre-Dame unearths 2,000 years of history
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DC Universe Infinite expands into Europe and Latin America
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Emmanuel Macron praises artisans in ceremony prior to reopening Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
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Railway travel in 19th century France
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Air France flight 736, December 31st 2020
13 votes