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started a #wikipedia article on US home economist Harriet Cole Emmons (1873-1956), first president of the New York League of Business and Professional Women: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Cole_Emmons @wikiwomeninred #homeeconomics #PrattInstitute #Vermont #WWI

Harriet Cole Emmons, from a 1919 publication; a white woman wearing an embroidered hat

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Harriet Cole Emmons in the 1920s; a white woman with grey hair in an updo

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Harriet Cole Emmons in the 1910s, a white woman standing, wearing a dark dress, hair in an updo

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started a #wikipedia article on Chicago singer and voice teacher Blanche Slocum (1885-1960): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Slocum @wikiwomeninred #WWI #Chicago #WomeninMusic #contralto

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Blanche Slocum, from a 1918 newspaper; a white woman wearing a dark brimmed hat, and a dark dress with a white collar/yoke detail

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Today's poem:

Germania
- by Eden Phillpotts

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/769741539384623104/germania?source=share

#germania #poetry #politics #war
#heritage #aspiration #EdenPhillpotts #WWI

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#30DayMapChallenge 🗺️ Day 2️⃣1️⃣: Conflict

I figured a lot of mappers will create maps about recent wars and conflicts so I decided to create a map about #WorldWarI and see if #Wikidata is a good enough source for its battles, conflicts, and military operations.

I also wanted to know if there are any open data sources for historical borders, and I found one, CShapes! https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/

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#battles #MilitaryConflicts #WW1 #WWI #WorldWar1 #GreatWar #MilitaryHistory

Map of Europe titled “Battles of the Great War (According to Wikidata)” showing the national borders as of 1914 and with red dots pinpointing the location of the said battles

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Today's poem

“Soldier from the wars returning”
- by A. E. Housman

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/763757557180465152/soldier-from-the-wars-returning?source=share

#AEHousman #war #poetry #return #death #ease #rest #transience #WWI

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Today's poem:

A Hospital Concert, May the 8th 1917, dedicated to a voice.

- by 'F.D.B.'

The voice mentioned in the dedication was that of Salvatore Salvati, the Italian Tenor, who organised concerts for the wounded sent to hospitals in Malta during WW1.

https://www.tumblr.com/ukdamo/762401054824513536/a-hospital-concert-may-the-8th-1917-dedicated?source=share

#WarPoetry #Valletta #malta #WWI #concert #poetry

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started a #wikipedia article on American #vaudeville, #burlesque performer, Natalie Dagwell (1886-1965): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Dagwell @wikiwomeninred #Utica #WWI #Broadway

Natalie Dagwell, circa 1910; a young white woman with dark hair in a bouffant style, wearing a print dress and a strand of pearls

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Behind the Vimy Ridge Memorial near Arras, France - a monument commemorating the Canadian soldiers who fought and died during World War 1.

#BuyIntoArt #WWI #VimyRidge #VimyRidgeMemorial #Arras #France #LestWeForget #Remembrance #Memorial #monument #Canadian

https://john-twynam.pixels.com/featured/vimy-ridge-memorial-in-arras-france-2-john-twynam.html

Behind the Vimy Ridge Memorial near Arras, France - a monument commemorating the Canadian soldiers who fought and died during World War 1.

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Lucasfilm has been posting some good historical mini-docs lately. #History #Documentary #WWI #Lucasfilm

Powder Keg: Europe 1900 to 1914 | Historical Documentary | Lucasfilm
https://youtube.com/watch?v=0SEgckAL-xc&si=kI70920QdynY-LOf

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Sopwith Rhino Triplane Bomber https://www.destinationsjourney.com/historical-military-photographs/sopwith-rhino-triplane-bomber/ #bomber #FirstWorldWar #RAF #RFC #RoyalAirForce #RoyalFlyingCorps #Sopwith #SopwithRhino #triplane #triplanebomber #WorldWarOne #WWI

First flying in October 1917, the Sopwith Rhino was a two-seat triplane bomber. Designed as a private venture by Sopwith, it featured an internal bomb load of up to 205kg. Armament consisted of a synchronised Vickers machine gun firing through the propeller disc and a Lewis machine gun in the rear cockpit.

Testing found that the aircraft was nose heavy and the Galloway Adriatic six-cylinder, water-cooled inline engine was subject to overheating. Testing was undertaken at Martlesham Heath in February and March 1918, but it had a poor ceiling and low speed, and was rejected as a service type. Only two prototypes were built.

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started a #wikipedia article on US journalist, musician, theatre professional Yetta Dorothea Geffen (1891-1986): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yetta_Dorothea_Geffen @wikiwomeninred #Boston #GreenwichVillage #WWI @juilliardschool

Yetta Dorothea Geffen, from a 1919 passport application; a woman with pale skin and dark hair cut in a bob, wearing a dark dress

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Yetta Dorothea Geffen in Civil War costume, 1916; a woman with light skin and dark hair, wearing a gingham dress with a wide hoop skirt and short puffed sleeves

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I have to share this every time I see it. I'm not a woman, or gay, but I always wonder... were they (the editor) clueless? Or was someone VERY cheeky?

#Lesbian #Pride #Cartoon #SFW (or so help me, where the fuck do you work?) #Histodons #History #WWI

Two "one panel joke" style cartoons from WWI, both with two women kissing and the similar "pun": "This is another job women do while the men are gone" basically.

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