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There’s a vast ocean of events, stories, and moments that have shaped the world as we know it, and many remain hidden in the pages of history. #4 Image credits: thehistoriansden1
1926 - The first evidence of women playing organized football was in 1926. It was then that an NFL team called the Frankford Yellow Jackets (the predecessors to the modern Philadelphia Eagles) employed a women's team for halftime entertainment. [72] [73] 1926 - In Japan, women's sumo was banned by the government in 1926. [74]
They analyzed four different sports magazines for three months and recorded the number of women's sports stories that were featured and the content of the stories. Women's sports made up 3.5%, compared to the 81% of men's coverage. The lengths of these articles were 25–27% shorter than the length of men's articles. [202]
Short story – A circular paradox in which a man discovers that he is his own mother and father. 1959–1989 The Time Machine series "Donald Keith" alias of Donald & Keith Monroe: Series of 23 short stories published in Boys' Life magazine centered around a patrol of Boy Scouts who acquire an abandoned time machine. 1961 Danny Dunn, Time Traveler
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
r/AskHistorians was founded August 28, 2011 as a question and answer forum for sharing historical knowledge. [5] It grew to be one of the largest online history forums. [3] [4] [2] The site's rules state that all answers must be serious and based in reliable academic sources, and regular contributors who demonstrate an expert level of knowledge in their field are given a "flair" which displays ...
Come celebrate Reader's Digest's 100th anniversary with a century of funny jokes, moving quotes, heartwarming stories, and riveting dramas. The post 100 Years of Reader’s Digest: People, Stories ...
Judit Polgár, generally considered the strongest female player of all time, [4] was at one time the eighth highest rated player in the world, and remains the only woman to have ever been rated in the world's top ten. [5] [6] Three women, Maia Chiburdanidze, [7] Polgár, [8] and Hou Yifan, [9] have been ranked in the world's top 100 players. [10]