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The 1993 World Youth Day was held on August 10–15, 1993 in Denver, Colorado. It was the first World Youth Day held in either North America or an English-speaking nation. The World Youth Day is an event for young people organized by the Roman Catholic Church. It is celebrated every two to three years at different locations.
The award is given to "a man or woman who has made an outstanding contribution to the beauty of the world and to mankind's enjoyment and understanding of life." Douglas Elbinger - Getty Images ...
International Men's Day is an opportunity for people everywhere of good will to appreciate and celebrate the men in their life and the contributions they make to society for the greater good of all hence it being important for us to celebrate this day equally as we did with The International Women's Day."
Due to the perceived inequity of having a day devoted to honouring males alone, the 'Men's World Day' event was terminated and replaced with a new gender neutral event named 'The World Awards' [3] [11] which now permanently includes the honouring and awarding of women. The World Awards continues to be held in Austria and consists of two awards ...
Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...
In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and European politics in the UK. Author of hundreds of features in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, and major women's magazines and the paperback Women with X Appeal: Women Politicians in Britain Today (London: Macdonald Optima 1989).
Rosalind Canter, British Olympic equestrienne (woman who rides horses professionally), winner of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games [21] Christopher Coke and his father Lester Coke, Jamaican drug lords and cocaine traffickers [22] Thomas Crapper, British sanitary engineer often erroneously referred to as the inventor of the flush toilet [9 ...
Despite its relatively short life, gender history (and its forerunner women's history) has had a rather significant effect on the general study of history.Since the 1960s, when the initially small field first achieved a measure of acceptance, it has gone through a number of different phases, each with its own challenges and outcomes, but always making an impact of some kind on the historical ...