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Amelia Earhart: After 75 Years, She’s Still Trending
Seventy-five years ago this month, Amelia Earhart took off from New Guinea in her bid to finish her trip around the world along an equatorial route. The trip started in Miami on June 1, 1937. Earhart and her navigator stopped … Continue reading
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Tagged amelia earhart, anne morrow lindbergh, aviation, bessie coleman, louise thaden
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The Best Women of Our Lives
With our war in Iraq officially over and the one in Afghanistan finally winding down, military men and women are struggling to return to civilian life, often after multiple combat tours. Yet to me, the best cinematic representation of that … Continue reading
Women on the Titanic, Real and Imagined
One hundred years ago, at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, the Titanic sank. I just went to see the Imax 3-D re-release of the 1997 film “Titanic”despite my misgivings. Some believe that post-production 3-D is little more than a marketing gimmick … Continue reading
Pinterest Is a Female Ghetto, But That’s Not the Problem
Pinterest, a visual bookmarking site, is both beloved and maligned as a closed society of women planning their weddings, or wishing they still were. Even as I created an account, I contributed to the mockery: What’s with all the tutorials … Continue reading
Rick Santorum’s Poodle-Skirt Vision of America
It might have been quaint if your granddad had referred to the way girls stayed out of trouble back in his day. But to hear Rick Santorum funder Foster Friess regurgitate the old aspirin-between-the-knees nonsense on TV was as ghastly … Continue reading
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Tagged birth control, rick santorum, vday, violence against women
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