Jean Baker
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Harry Askin was 22 when he enlisted at Nottingham in September 1914 and was sent to train with the Royal Marines at Portsmouth.
He set sail with the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force in late February 1915. On 25 April he was towed ashore to Gallipoli. So began a nine month ordeal of constant fighting and shelling on that bare and desperate Peninsula.
In this diary he captures the atmosphere of danger and death, blazing heat in summer and rain and...
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Fatty liver, if not corrected, is often a set off for various diseases and conditions such as: diabetes, inflammation (steatohepatitis), heart diseases, liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma), liver scarring (cirhosis), obesity and untimely death. Fatty liver is the leading cause of liver failure and 3/4 of American adults are affected by fatty liver disease without knowing it. Your liver's health and wellbeing is very important to several other...
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How the Personal Became Political In the Fight to Grant Women Civil Rights
They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to...
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where fancy led is a collection of poetry with roots in the rolling hills of West Virginia. It blooms and blossoms from my travels and imagination.Writing has been a lifelong pursuit and poetry my literary love. I dont know what you will think or feel as you read; what is important is that you feel! The beauty of poetry is the wide range of emotions one feels while reading a poem.I have delighted in many moments caught up in wordplay and hope that...
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Undoubtedly the most influential advocate for birth control even before the term existed, Margaret Sanger ignited a movement that has shaped our society to this day. Her views on reproductive rights have made her a frequent target of conservatives and so-called family values activists. Yet lately even progressives have shied away from her, citing socialist leanings and a purported belief in eugenics as a blight on her accomplishments. In this captivating...
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Based on twenty years of research and thousands of interviews, this authoritative biography of performer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) provides a candid look at her tempestuous life. Born into poverty in St. Louis, the uninhibited chorus girl became the sensation of Europe and the last century's first black sex symbol. A heroine of the French Resistance in World War II, she entranced figures as diverse as de Gaulle, Tito, Castro, Princess Grace, two...