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4 votes
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Russian Civil War, Winter 1917-1918
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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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How a stuffed animal named Billy Possum tried—and failed—to replace the teddy bear as America’s national toy
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The president and the psychoanalyst: what Sigmund Freud saw in Woodrow Wilson
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Intern finds only known surviving copy of 'The Heart of Lincoln,' a silent film thought to be lost to history
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The comet panic of 1910, revisited
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Dagmar Overbye took in unwanted children and killed them in horrific ways – the director of The Girl With the Needle explains why he brought the story of ‘The Angel Maker’ to the big screen
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Surviving the Titanic - dining on Carpathia
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Eastern Front of WW1 animated: 1914
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Feared lost now rediscovered - documentary about life in Brazilian Amazon from 1918 that has been hailed as a classic emerges from depths of Czech archive
17 votes -
Remembering the Philadelphia ‘Pathetics’, the worst baseball team in history
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Endurance, Ernest Shackleton’s ship, lost in 1915, is found in Antarctica
18 votes -
Capablanca: How I learned to play chess (1916)
4 votes -
The World Series was rigged. Hugh Fullerton's revolutionary analysis backed it up. But in 1919 his calls were ignored by a game now transformed by data.
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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Sámi National Day – National day that falls on February 6th. This date was when the first Sámi congress was held in 1917 in Trondheim, Norway
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How did the Qing dynasty collapse? The Xinhai revolution explained
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Lili Boulanger - Vieille prière bouddhique (1917)
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US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage—but NOAA is fiercely opposed to the controversial salvage mission
6 votes -
This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
8 votes -
The flu killed forty million in 1918. Every flu season since is descended from it
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Vintage ads: Selling health and hygiene during the 1918 pandemic
10 votes -
The extraordinary story of Joy Whitehead - female soldier of the first world war
8 votes -
1915 Black Pepper Cake recipe
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Mystery blast sank the USS San Diego in 1918. New report reveals what happened
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Ten books that defined the 1910s
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Germany's plans to win WWI
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The "Oldest book you own" thread set me off having a look through my bookshelf. I came across a first edition 1912 copy of The Yoga Sutras of PatanJali by Charles Johnston.
5 votes