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Nakano Takeko. Nakano Takeko (中野 竹子, April 1847 – 16 October 1868) was a Japanese female warrior of the Aizu Domain, who fought and died during the Boshin War. During the Battle of Aizu, she fought with a naginata (a Japanese polearm) and was the leader of an ad hoc corps of female combatants who fought in the battle independently.
Skeet. 2007 Rio de Janeiro. Skeet. Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter. [1] A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple ...
150,000,000 [ 6 ][ 7 ] 5 million milled AK type 3, 10 million AKM,[ 8 ]5 million AK-74 [ 9 ]15-20 million Chinese Type 56 [ 10 ] 3 million Yugoslav Zastava M70, 2 million East German Mpi. Several million Egyptian Maadi. Mauser Gewehr 98. (and similar) Bolt-action rifle.
Avani Lekhara (born 8 November 2001) is an Indian rifle shooter. [ 3 ] She is a double gold medalist at the Paralympics having won the 10m rifle event the 2020 Paralympics as well as the 2024 Paralympics. She made history by winning two back-to-back golds. She also won the bronze in the 50m rifle 3 positions SH1 event at the 2020 Games, thus ...
Zaitsev's sniper rifle, a 7.62×54mmR Mosin Model 1891/30 sniper rifle with a PU 3.5× sniper scope. a on display at the Volgograd 's Stalingrad Panorama Museum. Zaitsev was serving in the Soviet Navy as a clerk in Vladivostok when Germany invaded the Soviet Union in Operation Barbarossa. Like many of his comrades, he volunteered for transfer ...
Self‐Portrait as a Drowned Man[ b ] 18 October 1840. Hippolyte Bayard. Paris, France [ 6 ] Possibly the earliest known staged photograph, created in protest to the French government's apparent neglect of the invention of his photographic process. [ 7 ][ 8 ] [ s 1 ] The Haystack. 1844 [ c ] William Henry Fox Talbot.
t. e. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, better livelihood and training. [1][2][3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make ...
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).