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LitWorld celebrates International Day of the Girl annually and often uses the time to highlight girls in LitClubs worldwide. [ 33 ] LitWorld collaborated with Global G.L.O.W (Girls Leading Our World), a non-profit creating mentorship programs for girls’ self-advocacy and community building, [ 34 ] to create the Global HerStory Summit in 2016 ...
The Radium Girls' case was settled in the autumn of 1928, before the trial was deliberated by the jury, and the settlement for each of the Radium Girls was $10,000 (equivalent to $183,000 in 2024 [8]) and a $600 per year annuity (equivalent to $11,000 in 2024 [8]) paid $12 per week (equivalent to $200 in 2024 [8]) for all of their lives, and ...
Watkins-Pitchford married in 1939, and had two children, Robin, who died at the age of seven from Bright's Disease, and Angela.Tragedy entered his life a second time in 1974, when his wife, Cecily, became unwell after working in the garden while a farmer was spraying his fields at the other side of the hedge.
When GLOW is given a contract extension through the end of the year, Debbie has Randy brought to the hotel instead of having to regularly travel back and forth to visit him. She forms a relationship with middle-aged tycoon J. J. "Tex" McCready, but shortly after their six-month anniversary, she realizes that he has been only using her as a tool ...
Through her father, Melvin C. Toews, she is a direct descendant of one of Steinbach's first settlers, Klaas R. Reimer (1837–1906), who arrived in Manitoba in 1874 from Ukraine. [4] Her mother, Elvira Loewen, is a daughter of the late C. T. Loewen, an entrepreneur who founded a lumber business that would become Loewen Windows .
In the final scene, she poignantly narrates that prior to her death, she won her case seven times against the Radium Dial Company, the final time on appeal by Radium Dial to the US Supreme Court. [2] The real Catherine Donohue died on July 27, 1938, shortly after testifying before the Illinois Industrial Commission.
Short title: Our girls; their work for the war, by Hall Caine; with 15 illustrations from photographs by the Ministry of munitions. Author: Caine, Hall, Sir, 1853-1931.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls is a series of two children's books, aimed at ages six and up. Both were funded through the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, and broke site records for fundraising for literature publication. The books each feature short stories about 100 real women who can be role models to children.