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| My daughters, granddaughter, and me! |
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| Ingredients to make puppy chow for people |
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| Thanksgiving Day in the USA November 28 Image by Sabrina Ripke from Pixabay |
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| Veterans Day Honoring Veterans of the U.S. Military Services |
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| 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing! July 20, 1969-July 20, 2019 
INCREDIBLE.That's the only word I can use to describe the accomplishment of the NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Mission to the Moon! In the 1960's President Kennedy declared America would land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.The plan to land a man on the moon, let alone by 1970, sounded like such a fairy tale.
Trying to achieve such a goal sounded foolish given we had nothing to go on about space and rockets and lunar landers and even if a human being could live in the environs of outer space. Everything was just one big fat question mark. Only brilliant, courageous, determined, hard-working men and women could pull it off. AND they did! For all of us! We couldn't take our eyes off our TV's watching NASA's every planned step that would land us on the moon.
Frances "Poppy" Northcutt was a part of the team on that mission to the moon in the 1960's. As the first woman engineer to work in NASA's Mission Control, her job was to calculate the return-to-Earth trajectories. In the video below, Poppy talks about how the simulations with the astronauts in the capsule located in the building, not in space, tested everyone with training exercises. She was actually surprised at how well the actual Apollo 11flight went after having worked through so many possibilities of failure.
The moon landing is one of the most significant events in the 20th century and one that brought all Americans together cheering for the amazing outcome of Neil Armstrong actually climbing down the 3.5 foot long ladder to leave his footprint on the moon's surface. Next, astronaut Buzz Aldrin joined him on the ground and planted the American flag.
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| Dream BIG!!! Painting courtesy of Julie McKendrie |
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| 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup |
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| Girls Succeed! Stories Behind the Careers of Successful Women by J. Q. Rose |
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| Traveling Circus by Ingar Rudholm Fantasy |
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| The Big Top circus tent Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay |
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| Traveling Circus by Ingar Rudholm Fantasy |
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| Brenda Marshall, professional clown, with children in China |
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STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN HALIFAX:
WOMEN'S LIVES AND THE FIGHT FOR EQUALITY BY HELENA FAIRFAX
BACK OF THE BOOK: Between 1800 and 1950 the town of Halifax grew beyond recognition. The booming mills and factories were built on the labour of women and their children, and yet their voices are almost completely missing from the history books. For the first time, this is the story of Halifax from the point of view of the women who helped shape the town. This was a period of extraordinary change, but the battle for equality was long. In 1800, many women were illiterate. By 1900, there was a thriving girls' high school in Halifax, and yet one of its most brilliant students was denied a full degree because she was a woman. In 1939, the Vicar of Halifax called women's economic independence "an evil".Families were large and women regularly died in childbirth. Many faced the stigma of single parenthood or else the terror of an illegal abortion. In the 1930s, the first Family Planning Clinic was set up by women in the town. In the 1840s, women in Halifax fought for their menfolk's right to vote. In 1911, when Emmeline Pankhurst gave a stirring speech at the Mechanics' Institute, women had yet to be granted a vote of their own, leading many women to boycott that year's census and at least two to declare their occupation as "slave".From girls in the factories to the first women stepping into public office, this book provides a fascinating and moving account of the lives of Halifax's women through the key events in the town's history.
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Celebrating International Women's Day 2019
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Dream Big!
Painting courtesy of artist Julie Ann McKevitt
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Celebrating Women during the International Women's Day 2019
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