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Madeleine Slade (22 November 1892 – 20 July 1982), also known as Mirabehn or Meera Behn, was a British supporter of the Indian Independence Movement who in the 1920s left her home in England to live and work with Mahatma Gandhi. She devoted her life to human development and the advancement of Gandhi's principles.
Anti-Apartheid Movement: 2005 V for Vendetta: James McTeigue: Political action film: Revolution: 2006 The Wind That Shakes the Barley: Ken Loach: Historical drama: Irish War of Independence: 2006 Alatriste: Agustín Díaz Yanes: Historical fiction: Revolution, Netherlands 2006 Thomas Sankara: The Upright Man: Robin Shuffield Documentary ...
Maria Kim (Korean: 김마리아; June 18, 1891 – March 13, 1944) was a Korean independence activist during the period of Japanese colonial rule (1910–1945).Her birth name was Kim Jin-sang (金眞常) and she also went by the name Kim Geun-po (金槿圃).
A visually striking period drama from Woo Min-ho, “Harbin” follows Korean independence activist Ahn Jung-geun (Hyun Bin) as he plans the assassination of Japan’s Prime Minister in 1909 ...
The outrage caused led to a new school of liberal Indian feminism and a new vision for Indian women. [7] This new ideal of an Indian woman was viewed as the model embodiment of what it meant to be Indian in an independent nation state. [7] [4] [8] Annie Besant called Mother India "a remarkably wicked book slandering the whole Indian people". [9]
On July 4, 1776, a group of American founders pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to found a new nation.
Newspapers in 1812 harangued women to take part in the independence effort as they owed their countrymen a debt for submitting to conquest and subordinating Mexico to Spanish rule. [56] The most prominent female hero of the independence movement is Josefa Ortiz de Domínguez, known in Mexican history as La Corregidora. Her remains were moved to ...
The wonderful Raymond Carver story “Neighbors” perfectly evoked the strange out-of-body feeling that can come from occupying another person’s home when they’re not in it — the transient ...