It may surprise you - it certainly surprised me - to discover that the first territory in America to give women the vote was Wyoming, 143 years ago today. Then I realized that there were 428,000 men in Wyoming in 1869, 3.2 million cattle and two women.
Heigh ho.
In other news ....
Alfred Nobel won the world's prize for biggest idiot today in 1892 when he said that his dynamite invention would put an end to war. On the contrary, it increased battlefield casualties a hundredfold.
Nice one, Alfred - back to the drawing board, old son!
Showing posts with label votes for women. Show all posts
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Monday, 10 December 2012
Saturday, 8 September 2012
8th September
This review appeared in the Field and Stream magazine in 1961 -
'This pictorial account of the day-to-day life of a gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor inclined readers ... In this reviewer's opinion, the book cannot take the place of J R Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.'
This was of course a review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and we must assume that Field and Stream was being tongue in cheek about the whole thing. Bums and Tits Weekly was rather more forthright, of course -
'What a load of $%^&*!!! The ^&%$£^* is pretty good but we also had all this %"**& about gamekeeping thrown in.'
In other news ...
Today in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson promised American women the vote.. He later withdrew the offer on the grounds that the First Lady, Mrs Woodrow Wilson, had him in a side head mare at the time and he wasn't thinking straight.
'This pictorial account of the day-to-day life of a gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor inclined readers ... In this reviewer's opinion, the book cannot take the place of J R Miller's Practical Gamekeeping.'
This was of course a review of D H Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and we must assume that Field and Stream was being tongue in cheek about the whole thing. Bums and Tits Weekly was rather more forthright, of course -
'What a load of $%^&*!!! The ^&%$£^* is pretty good but we also had all this %"**& about gamekeeping thrown in.'
In other news ...
Today in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson promised American women the vote.. He later withdrew the offer on the grounds that the First Lady, Mrs Woodrow Wilson, had him in a side head mare at the time and he wasn't thinking straight.
Wednesday, 7 March 2012
7th March
Today is International Rhine Crossing day and several thousand will be doing it, the Germans going one way and everybody Else the other. The first crossing took place on this day in 1936 when Nazi troops moved into the Demilitarized Zone that had been set up by the Treaty of Versailles in 1919. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin told Herr Hitler not to do it again but the Fuhrer couldn't speak English, so it was rather a waste of time.
Exactly nine months later, American troops crossed the river at Remagen with the express intention of shouting a bit louder at the Fuhrer, this time in German so he could understand it.
In other news ...
Today was the day when the enlightened Swiss, originators of yodelling, cheese and national heroes who are whizzo shots with a crossbow gave women the vote. The day was 7 March but what was the year, I hear you cry. 1748? 1812? No, it was 1971, making Swiss men about as enlightened and democratic as Attila the Hun.
Exactly nine months later, American troops crossed the river at Remagen with the express intention of shouting a bit louder at the Fuhrer, this time in German so he could understand it.
In other news ...
Today was the day when the enlightened Swiss, originators of yodelling, cheese and national heroes who are whizzo shots with a crossbow gave women the vote. The day was 7 March but what was the year, I hear you cry. 1748? 1812? No, it was 1971, making Swiss men about as enlightened and democratic as Attila the Hun.
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