The Mud March, or United Procession of Women, was a peaceful demonstration in London on 9 February 1907 organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS), in which more than three thousand women marched from Hyde Park Corner to the Strand in support of women's suffrage. Women from all classes participated in the largest public demonstration supporting women's suffrage seen to that date. It acquired the name "Mud March" from the day's weather; incessant heavy rain left the marchers drenched and mud-spattered. The NUWSS and other groups organised the march to coincide with the opening of Parliament. The event attracted much public interest and broadly sympathetic press coverage, but when a women's suffrage bill was presented the following month it was "talked out" without a vote. The march had a large impact on public awareness and on the movement's tactics. Large peaceful public demonstrations, never previously attempted, became standard features of the suffrage campaign. (Full article...).
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1971:
An earthquake registering 6.6 Mw struck the northern San Fernando Valley near the Los Angeles district of Sylmar, killing 65 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_San_Fernando_earthquake
1976:
The Australian Defence Force (ensign pictured) was formed by the integration of the Australian Army, the Royal Australian Navy, and the Royal Australian Air Force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Defence_Force
1996:
Breaking a seventeen-month ceasefire, the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a powerful truck bomb in the London Docklands, killing two people and injuring more than a hundred others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Docklands_bombing
2001:
The American submarine USS Greeneville collided with the Ehime Maru, a Japanese training vessel operated by a high school, sinking the latter ship and killing nine people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehime_Maru_and_USS_Greeneville_collision
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copper: 1. (uncountable, chemistry) A reddish-brown metallic chemical element (symbol Cu) with the atomic number 29; also, the metal made up of this element. 2. (uncountable) The reddish-brown colour of copper (etymology 1 sense 1). copper: 3. 4. (countable, entomology) In full copper butterfly: any of various lycaenid butterflies with copper-coloured upperwings, especially those of the genera Lycaena and Paralucia. 5. (countable, dated) Any of various specialized items made of copper (etymology 1 sense 1), where the use of the metal is either necessary or traditional to the function of the item. 6. (countable) A copper mug used for drinking alcoholic beverages. 7. (countable) A copper sheet on which an image or writing is engraved. 8. (numismatics, countable) A coin, typically of a small denomination, originally made of copper and now chiefly of other metals such as bronze; specifically, an English or British penny or halfpenny; also, a United States cent; (uncountable) coins made of copper collectively. 9. (countable, US, card games) In the game of faro: originally a copper coin, now usually a small disc or token, placed on a playing card to indicate that a player bets against that card. 10. (Australia, UK, countable, dated) A large pot, originally made of copper but later often of iron, filled with water and heated over a fire for cooking, washing clothes, etc. [...] 11. About Word of the Day 12. Nominate a word 13. Leave feedback https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/copper
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Erasmus dramatizes a well-established political position: that of the fool who claims license to criticize all and sundry without reprisal, since his madness defines him as not fully a person and therefore not a political being with political desires and ambitions. The Praise of Folly, therefore sketches the possibility of a position for the critic of the scene of political rivalry, a position not simply impartial between the rivals but also, by self-definition, off the stage of rivalry altogether. --J. M. Coetzee https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._M._Coetzee