![]() They were the Radium Girls and they were doomed. Painting the dials of watches so they would glow in the dark for soldiers during the war then after for consumers. As working class girls and women during the 1910s and 1920s they joined a new bustling form of work, fashionable and better paid than anything else. The women above worked in the first case for a company called the United States Radium Corporation and in the second case at Radium Dial. ![]() Catherine Wolfe Donohue, Charlotte Nevins Purcell, sisters Frances Glacinski O’Connell and Marguerite Glacinski, Helen Munch, Inez Corcoran Vallat, Margaret Peg Looney, Marie Becker Rossiter, Mary Duffy Robinson, Mary Ellen Ella Cruse, Mary Vicini Tonielli, Olive West Witt and Pearl Payne in Ottawa, Illinois, USA. Sisters Albina Maggia Larice, Amelie Mollie Maggia and Quinta Maggia Mcdonald, Edna Bolz Hussman, Eleanor Ella Eckert, Genevieve Smith and her sister Josephine Smith, Grace Fryer, Hazel Vincent Kuser, Helen Quinlan, Irene Corby la Porte, Irene Rudolph, Jane Jennie Stocker, Katherine Schaub, Mae Cubberley Canfield, Marguerite Carlough and her sister Sarah Carlough Maillefer in Newark and Orange, New Jersey, USA. ![]() Workers would often lick the paintbrush to achieve a finer point - directly ingesting the Radium. ![]() ![]() Women painting alarm clock faces with Radium in 1932, Ingersoll factory, January 1932. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The growing acceptance of the new mechanical philosophy was less a cause than a consequence of the decline of witchcraft. A new history that overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment Britainnamed a Best Book of 2020 by the Financial Times In early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. The “crisis of confidence” manifested not only the victory of a long-standing tradition of skepticism and contemporary experience with the cruelty and injustices of the trials but also changes in popular behaviors and practices that the trials brought about. The trials ended because the elite's skepticism about the magnitude of the threat posed by witchcraft gave way to disbelief in the power of magic altogether. ![]() The rise was driven by the dissemination of the late-medieval demonology and the “scissors effect” of rising population and constricting resources the peak reflected the governing elite's “crisis of confidence” in the prosecutions and the demonology. Witchcraft prosecutions in Europe rose dramatically during the late sixteenth century, peaked in the middle third of the seventeenth century, and declined rapidly thereafter, gradually ceasing altogether by the end of the eighteenth century. Keith Thomas is a very old school academic, but this is a carefully observed account of the historical clash between religion and magic not. ![]() ![]() Lock’s favorite living violinist is Salvatore Accardo, though he once took a trip to Vienna without permission to see Sarah Chang perform Carmen Fantasy by Sarasate.Mycroft once had to retrieve Lock from Northumberland police after he’d been caught trying to break into the Poison Garden at Alnwick Castle after hours.Petty on the Blog who shares some interesting facts about Lock:) Ten Interesting Facts about Lock: Now, throw in a Teenage Sherlock and I’m even more sold! This is why I was so excited thread Lock & Mori and I’m also thrilled to have Heather W. I am a Big fan of Sherlock Holmes, he most definitely is one of the most intriguing detectives out there. ![]() ![]() And after this case, Mori may never trust Lock again. OBSERVATION: Sometimes you can't trust the people closest to you with matters of the heart. Challenge accepted.įACT: Despite agreeing to Lock's one rule-they must share every clue with each other-Mori is keeping secrets. Instead, they are out crashing a crime scene.įACT: Lock has challenged Mori to solve the case before he does. The police have no leads.įACT: Miss James "Mori"Moriarty and Sherlock "Lock" Holmes should be hitting the books on a school night. The truth very well might drive them apart.īefore they were mortal enemies, they were much more.įACT: Someone has been murdered in London's Regent's Park. In modern-day London, two brilliant high school students, one Sherlock Holmes and a Miss James "Mori" Moriarty, meet. Genres: Law & Crime, Love & Romance, Mysteries & Detective Stories, Young Adult ![]() ![]() But the men in their lives are less than cooperative. Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment is a 2009 self help book by Steve Harvey which describes for women Harvey's concept of how men really think of love, relationships, intimacy, commitment, and how to successfully navigate a relationship with a man. ![]() Sometimes funny, often unflinchingly direct, but always truthful, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is a book you must read if you want to understand how men think when it comes to relationships, intimacy, and love. Think Like a Man 2012 Maturity Rating: 13+ 2h 2m Comedies Four women set out to solve their relationship problems using advice from a best-selling book. In this expanded edition, Steve includes an added section of all new advice, with tips on dealing with your partner's exes, spicing up your relationship, ensuring you're ready for that walk down the aisle, and much more. So, when it comes to relationships, why can't these same women figure out what makes men commit? According to Steve, it's because they're asking other women for advice when they should be going directly to the source. Steve Harvey can't count the number of impressive women he's met over the years-the many incredible women who can run a business, have three kids, maintain a household in tiptop shape, and chair a church group all at the same time. With translations in more than thirty languages, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man is the definitive relationship guide for women. ![]() ![]() ![]() An International Bestseller-Over 3 Million Copies Sold! ![]() ![]() ![]() She will have no heed of me, and my heart will break.” But there is no red rose in my garden, so I shall sit lonely, and she will pass me by. ![]() ![]() If I bring her a red rose, I shall hold her in my arms, and she will lean her head upon my shoulder, and her hand will be clasped in mine. If I bring her a red rose she will dance with me till dawn. “The Prince gives a ball to-morrow night,” murmured the young Student, “and my love will be of the company. His hair is dark as the hyacinth-blossom, and his lips are red as the rose of his desire but passion has made his face like pale ivory, and sorrow has set her seal upon his brow.” “Night after night have I sung of him, though I knew him not: night after night have I told his story to the stars, and now I see him. “Here at last is a true lover,” said the Nightingale. ![]() “Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.” “No red rose in all my garden!” he cried, and his beautiful eyes filled with tears. “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student “but in all my garden there is no red rose.”įrom her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a radical, gripping and frank expose of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it engenders. In this shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf's groundbreaking book. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and all-pervading. Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. It is a radical, gripping and frank expose of the tyranny of the beauty myth, its oppressive function and the destructive obsession it. ![]() In this shortened edition you will find the essence of Wolf's groundbreaking book. Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) Paperback Summary Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma how to look. ![]() ![]() ![]() Skye wonders if she and Jordy can recapture the spark she knows they had, but Maya has other plans: exposing Jordy and getting revenge. When Maya and Skye are invited to star on the reality dating show Second-Chance Romance, they’re whisked away to a beautiful mansion-along with four more of Jordy’s exes-to compete for his affections while the whole world watches. Now his face is all over the media and Skye is still wondering why he stopped calling. Skye Kaplan was always cautious with her heart until Jordy said all the right things and earned her trust. If the world only knew the real Jordy, the manipulative liar who broke Maya’s heart. It’s been two years since Maya's ex-boyfriend cheated on her, and she still can’t escape him: his sister married the crown prince of a minor European country and he captured hearts as her charming younger brother. “Wickedly funny searingly sexy.”-Kelly Quindlen, author of She Drives Me Crazy When their now famous ex-boyfriend asks them to participate in a teen reality show, two eighteen year old girls-one bent on revenge, the other open to rekindling romance-get tangled up in an unexpected twist when they fall for each other instead in Never Ever Getting Back Together by nationally and internationally-bestselling and Indie Next Pick author Sophie Gonzales. ![]() ![]() 'Fatal Attraction' Episode 1 Recap: Business with Pleasure Stream It Or Skip It: 'A Small Light' On Nat Geo, Hulu And Disney+, About The Woman Who Helped Anne Frank And Her Family Hide From The Nazis 'Fatal Attraction' Episode 2 Recap: The Beginning & End of the Affair 'Fatal Attraction' Episode 3 Recap: From a Certain Point of View Is 'Are You There God? 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And yes, it comes with maps." - "Minneapolis Star Tribune" "Blanding tucks great little historical trivia. ![]() "THE MAP THIEF is a gripping, suspenseful tale, told by a veteran investigative reporter. ![]() ![]() Marie-Claire, raised by free parents, grows up watching the Grand and Petit Blancs increasingly restrict the freedoms of the Coloreds and the freed Affranchi, while the enslaved resist with poison or outright revolt. Once on Saint-Domingue, under the thumb of the brutal Duclos, Toya protects her fellow enslaved and her friend’s son, Janjak, as he works to buy his freedom and win the beautiful Marie-Claire. As their general, she sacrifices herself to enslavement to protect her king. When her West African village is sacked, Abdaraya Toya trains as a Minos, the elite female guard of the Dahomey. ![]() ![]() ![]() Riley brings to life the Haitian Revolution through the lens of its two most important female protagonists in this thrilling and utterly engrossing saga. ![]() |