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Many noted body parts are of dubious provenance [1] and most were separated from their bodies post-mortem. [2] In some faiths, veneration of the dead may include the preservation of body parts as relics. Body parts supposed to belong to major religious figures are kept in temples, including the tooth of the Buddha, Muhammad's beard, and Jesus's ...
Weibel–Palade body – Ewald R. Weibel (1929–2019), Swiss biologist, and George Emil Palade (1912–2008), Romanian-American cell biologist; Wenckebach's bundle – Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), Dutch anatomist; Wernicke's area – Karl Wernicke (1848–1905), German physician, anatomist, psychiatrist and neuropathologist
Paula Modersohn-Becker begins a series of nude portraits of herself and of other women and children in Paris. Juan Gris, Amedeo Modigliani and Gino Severini all arrive in Paris. Walter Sickert paints music hall scenes in London and Paris. Ferdinand Preiss opens his workshop in Berlin. Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest) completed.
Image credits: historycoolkids #3. This is the grave of Leonard Matlovich. After serving three tours in Vietnam, Matlovich became a recipient of the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
This famine was directly caused by the 1906 China floods (April–October 1906), which hit the Huai River particularly hard and destroyed both the summer and autumn harvest. The 1908 Messina earthquake caused 75,000–82,000 deaths. First-wave feminism made advances, with universities being opened for women in Japan, Bulgaria, Cuba, Russia, and ...
Women moving out of the Victorian era and into the Edwardian era were starting to dress for a more active lifestyle. The evolving times brought a new fashion trend known as the "New Woman". Active lives required less constricting clothing and more simple and streamlined garments. The new woman was highly encouraged by women's suffrage.
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
Printable version; In other projects ... 1906 in women's history (1 C, 2 P) 1906 works (19 C, ... This list may not reflect recent changes. ...