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The first cover was artwork featuring a child offering up a pink hyacinth snipped from her mother's favorite pot plant, sending a message to readers to "come and join the fun". [5] In 1950 the magazine gained Alice Mabel Jackson, previously employed by The Australian Women's Weekly, as an editor. Jackson moved to Melbourne to take on this role. [6]
Theresa Malkiel established the day in 1909 as head of the Woman's National Committee of the Socialist Party of America.. Woman's Day, also known as National Woman's Day (a retronym in regard to the later international observance), was a commemoration conceived by labor activist Theresa Malkiel, and organized principally in New York City by the Socialist Party of America on the last Sunday in ...
National Woman's Day, a predecessor of International Women's Day in the United States; National Women's Day, celebrated in South Africa on August 9; National Women's Day, celebrated in Bolivia on October 11; National Women's Day, celebrated in East Timor on November 3; The Combined Holidays of Women's Day and Children's Day, celebrated in ...
Ahead of Women's Day, the national carrier Air India operated what it claimed to be the world's longest non-stop flight where the entire flight operations were handled by women, as part of International Women's Day celebrations. The flight, from Delhi to San Francisco, covered a distance of around 14,500 kilometers in around 17 hours. [119]
National Women's Day (Zulu: Usuku Lwabesifazane, Afrikaans: Nasionale Vrouedag) is a South African public holiday celebrated annually on 9 August. The day commemorates the 1956 march of approximately 20,000 women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition against the country's pass laws that required South Africans defined as "black" under The Population Registration Act to carry an ...
Woman's Day is an American women's magazine that covers such topics as homemaking, food, nutrition, physical fitness, physical attractiveness, and fashion. The print edition is one of the Seven Sisters magazines. The magazine was first published in 1931 [2] by The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company; the current publisher is Hearst Corporation.
WINNING WAYS “Women Talking,” which won Sarah Polley an Oscar for best adapted screenplay, was this weekend named best narrative feature at the Bali International Film Festival (aka the Balinale).
The most significant changes to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are its displays; both branded as "Retina HD Display" and "ion-strengthened", the iPhone 6 display is 4.7 inches in size with a 16:9 resolution of 1334x750 (326 ppi, minus one row of pixels), while the iPhone 6 Plus includes a 5.5-inch 1920x1080 display (401 PPI). The displays use a ...