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Her daughter also won a Nobel Prize

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:31 am

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Large 70l red Hold-all bag was a hit

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Pram was a hit

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Prams galore

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Prams donated Blackburn Uk to Lesvos Greece

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Thank you for all the donations, they are making such a difference to parents and children

by Major Fri Mar 18, 2016 11:40 am

Which are the fotoz of shopkeepuz donating?

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:04 pm

Not putting those on as they have my friends in them.

However, it's been in the press:

Compassion, kindness, generosity of spirit: all three apply to Panayiota Drougas and her husband, Dimitris, as they pace the platform of the train station at Idomeni.

There is no reason in the world that they should be here. Idomeni, at the best of times, is a godforsaken place: bleak, barren and infused with a melancholy typical of remote border posts. It is a starkness made more haunting still by the thousands of refugees who, following the railway tracks that have led them to this northern corner of Greece, now live in a squalid camp that has sprung up around the Macedonian frontier – which is, of course, why the couple are here.

“We saw their little faces on television, all these children, so hungry, so tired, and just wanted to help,” says Panayiota, a retired headteacher, handing out the 150 chocolate-filled croissants the pair have brought with them. “They are refugees – they don’t want to be here,” she sighs, eyes streaming in the cold. “We see it as our duty to show them that someone cares. We’re going to spread the word, tell former colleagues and friends to do the same.”

They are not alone. The conviction that compelled the couple to purchase the croissants, get into their car and make the drive from Thessaloniki is one that many appear to share.

Hardship, Greeks have discovered, comes in different shades. For six years they may have been in the eye of the great eurozone storm, buffeted by the depredations of austerity, the byproduct of their worst crisis in modern times.

But the sight of thousands of refugees stranded on their shores, often with little more than the clothes on their backs, has now taken them somewhere else. As the numbers have grown so, too, have the acts of altruism – some recorded, some never seen – nationwide.

In Idomeni, pensioners struggling to make ends meet buy two loaves of bread, one to share with those who have descended on their tiny community; elsewhere, villagers open their homes. On Aegean islands that have borne the brunt of the influx, shops – hard hit by plummeting consumption – donate supplies.

In Athens, where passenger terminals, parks and public squares have been turned into chaotic reception centres, Greeks of all backgrounds and ages have rushed to join the relief effort. Everywhere, NGOs speak of an explosion of giving that has taken them aback. “I could tell you so many stories,” says Caroline Haga, a Finn seconded for the past four months to the country, with the International Red Cross. “In Samos and Chios, recently, every shopkeeper I met wanted to give something for the children. It’s amazing, considering what they’ve been going through themselves. And more and more, every day, are signing up as volunteers.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/12/refugee-crisis-greeks-strangers-migrants

Now, are you going to reply to Vic on the headscarf thread or are you trying to wiggle out of it.

by Major Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:18 pm

Stop trolling, stalking me as usual, I knew twaz too good to last.

by Major Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:20 pm

sassy wrote:Not putting those on as they have my friends in them.

However, it's been in the press:

Compassion, kindness, generosity of spirit: all three apply to Panayiota Drougas and her husband, Dimitris, as they pace the platform of the train station at Idomeni.

There is no reason in the world that they should be here. Idomeni, at the best of times, is a godforsaken place: bleak, barren and infused with a melancholy typical of remote border posts. It is a starkness made more haunting still by the thousands of refugees who, following the railway tracks that have led them to this northern corner of Greece, now live in a squalid camp that has sprung up around the Macedonian frontier – which is, of course, why the couple are here.

“We saw their little faces on television, all these children, so hungry, so tired, and just wanted to help,” says Panayiota, a retired headteacher, handing out the 150 chocolate-filled croissants the pair have brought with them. “They are refugees – they don’t want to be here,” she sighs, eyes streaming in the cold. “We see it as our duty to show them that someone cares. We’re going to spread the word, tell former colleagues and friends to do the same.”

They are not alone. The conviction that compelled the couple to purchase the croissants, get into their car and make the drive from Thessaloniki is one that many appear to share.

Hardship, Greeks have discovered, comes in different shades. For six years they may have been in the eye of the great eurozone storm, buffeted by the depredations of austerity, the byproduct of their worst crisis in modern times.

But the sight of thousands of refugees stranded on their shores, often with little more than the clothes on their backs, has now taken them somewhere else. As the numbers have grown so, too, have the acts of altruism – some recorded, some never seen – nationwide.

In Idomeni, pensioners struggling to make ends meet buy two loaves of bread, one to share with those who have descended on their tiny community; elsewhere, villagers open their homes. On Aegean islands that have borne the brunt of the influx, shops – hard hit by plummeting consumption – donate supplies.

In Athens, where passenger terminals, parks and public squares have been turned into chaotic reception centres, Greeks of all backgrounds and ages have rushed to join the relief effort. Everywhere, NGOs speak of an explosion of giving that has taken them aback. “I could tell you so many stories,” says Caroline Haga, a Finn seconded for the past four months to the country, with the International Red Cross. “In Samos and Chios, recently, every shopkeeper I met wanted to give something for the children. It’s amazing, considering what they’ve been going through themselves. And more and more, every day, are signing up as volunteers.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/12/refugee-crisis-greeks-strangers-migrants

Now, are you going to reply to Vic on the headscarf thread or are you trying to wiggle out of it.

Are they 'library type fotoz'?

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:29 pm

No, they are facebook photo's from my friends.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:41 pm

sassy wrote:No, they are facebook photo's from my friends.

KUDO's to you, Sassy; you've gone above and beyond to be social and obliging for someone that has {and continues} to be attached to your every post/thought/image!

But we do 'TRY'; just isn't always a successful endeavor - HUH?

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:42 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
sassy wrote:No, they are facebook photo's from my friends.

KUDO's to you, Sassy; you've gone above and beyond to be social and obliging for someone that has {and continues} to be attached to your every post/thought/image!

But we do 'TRY'; just isn't always a successful endeavor - HUH?

Exactly, and he does 'sly' so well, obviously had a lot of practice.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:55 pm

sassy wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:

KUDO's to you, Sassy; you've gone above and beyond to be social and obliging for someone that has {and continues} to be attached to your every post/thought/image!

But we do 'TRY'; just isn't always a successful endeavor - HUH?

Exactly, and he does 'sly' so well, obviously had a lot of practice.

Precisely...I was beginning to think that there had been a special topic/discussion/meeting/group training in how to appear 'COY &/or SLY' while jabbing the crap out of another member! ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 2190311264

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 12:56 pm

Neither of you are debating and just ganging up now

Give it a rest, its pathetic

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:00 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
sassy wrote:

Exactly, and he does 'sly' so well, obviously had a lot of practice.
Precisely...I was beginning to think that there had been a special topic/discussion/meeting/group training in how to appear 'COY &/or SLY' while jabbing the crap out of another member!

Indeed, giving Stormee the information he requested was never going to satisfy him, as his subtext was obvious, but I thought I'd try and give him the benefit of the doubt. Obviously will not be something I will repeat.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:02 pm

Didge wrote:Neither of you are debating and just ganging up now

Give it a rest, its pathetic So unlike what you do on a daily basis to fellow member Tommy --- RIGHT, preaching yet again but behaving like a total ASS! so true to form.

Oh...is the wee-little boy feeling ignored Rolling Eyes

Well ain't that a real shame...feel free to go back to you self-absorbed mutilation --- we won't be needing your INPUT and should we --- well you'll fee the jerk of the CHAIN!

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:05 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
Didge wrote:Neither of you are debating and just ganging up now

Give it a rest, its pathetic So unlike what you do on a daily basis to fellow member Tommy --- RIGHT, preaching yet again but behaving like a total ASS! so true to form.

Oh...is the wee-little boy feeling ignored

Well ain't that a real shame...feel free to go back to you self-absorbed mutilation --- we won't be needing your INPUT and should we --- well you'll fee the jerk of the CHAIN!

Seriously stop making pathetic excuses

You clearly are not a woman, so why the sham?

As to Tommy, that is a long going bout we have, but I do not hate him or anyone, which shows how you fail to understand anything

You are ganging up and its utterly childish. You constantly make excuses and never admit what you are doing is wrong

So grow the hell up

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:07 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
Didge wrote:Neither of you are debating and just ganging up now

Give it a rest, its pathetic So unlike what you do on a daily basis to fellow member Tommy --- RIGHT, preaching yet again but behaving like a total ASS! so true to form.

Oh...is the wee-little boy feeling ignored

Well ain't that a real shame...feel free to go back to you self-absorbed mutilation --- we won't be needing your INPUT and should we --- well you'll fee the jerk of the CHAIN!

Have him on ignore, so much easier, didn't even notice he'd posted.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:09 pm

sassy wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:

Oh...is the wee-little boy feeling ignored

Well ain't that a real shame...feel free to go back to you self-absorbed mutilation --- we won't be needing your INPUT and should we --- well you'll fee the jerk of the CHAIN!

Have him on ignore, so much easier, didn't even notice he'd posted.

Contradiction alert

Yet constantly talk about me lol

Seriously, the both of you need to grow up

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:12 pm

sassy wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:
Oh...is the wee-little boy feeling ignored

Well ain't that a real shame...feel free to go back to you self-absorbed mutilation --- we won't be needing your INPUT and should we --- well you'll fee the jerk of the CHAIN!

Have him on ignore, so much easier, didn't even notice he'd posted.

But - But those voices within his wee-little brain have become agitated {yet again} and despite his acknowledging LordFouls post and repeated post about:
My gender, My avatar, My location, My membership --- ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 2981866455

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#1 returned to calling me by another former members name and now he's trolling my every post and changed my gender - YET AGAIN! ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 2023022481

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Promises - Promises, that #1 never has any respect nor intention of following the moderators directives! ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 3350646086

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:14 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
sassy wrote:

Have him on ignore, so much easier, didn't even notice he'd posted.

But - But those voices within his wee-little brain have become agitated {yet again} and despite his acknowledging LordFouls post and repeated post about:
My gender, My avatar, My location, My membership --- #1 returned to calling me by another former members name and now he's trolling my every post and changed my gender - YET AGAIN! Promises - Promises, that #1 never has any respect nor intention of following the moderators directives!

See yet more infantile insults

Again you can call me anything you like, its not going to change a single thing you are shit stirring the pair of you

Again you are not a woman because you were exposed at saying many things no decent woman would ever say where you went off claiming I only could sleep with prostitutes or something as infantile, to your potty mouth is worse than when I swear, and supposedly for an old dear
It simply does not add up

So, once again grow up and I will continue to say this until you do

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:18 pm

I mean does anyone think women speak like this?

aspca4ever wrote: yes...my-my that one: To the Didge can't do anything wrong groupies - GO 'F' yourselves or do it in a group!

aspca4ever wrote:Do try to restrain your 'self-abuse'; I've been told that to much of that 'spanking your monkey' could cause relationship problems with the opposite sex --- as in YOU won't be able to maintain a 'BONER' because you've been the 'MASTER BATER' for far too long!
But then again; your social skills are so gutter speak low that the only possible chance you have of getting 'ANY' would be a 'for pay services' from a blind/deaf hooker!

Like I say, you can keep the charade going all you like, but its evident you are no woman

So again, grow up

by eddie Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:23 pm

Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:24 pm

eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

That is what I was trying to stop as two people were ganging up again not debating

But hey its your job, and you were not here

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:25 pm

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#1 to manufacture a rejoinder {twice} --- one handed and most likely a sticky key board as well~~~

But don't worry about his admonishing ANY MEMBER about following RULES: they don't apply to his royal-chest-thumping-egotistic-KING of debating decorum! ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 919144451

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:25 pm

eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

Vic had told Didge not to do what he is obviously doing again. Please don't lock the thread because of him, it's a good thread.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:27 pm

Didge wrote:
eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

That is what I was trying to stop as two people were ganging up again not debating

But hey its your job, and you were not here

Pompous Arse in the dictionary: = ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 2981866455

aka Didge the #1 rule violator on here! ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 202592697

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:27 pm

sassy wrote:
eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

Vic had told Didge not to do what he is obviously doing again. Please don't lock the thread because of him, it's a good thread.

Told me what?

You are such a shit stirrer its beyond belief and it was you and the other child ganging up on stormee

So grow the hell up you old bag

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:28 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
Didge wrote:

That is what I was trying to stop as two people were ganging up again not debating

But hey its your job, and you were not here

Pompous Arse in the dictionary: = aka Didge the #1 rule violator on here!

Yes, yes, you are a child and you are not a woman, as easily proven Ayev

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:31 pm

eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

In fact what started the diversion was Stormee requesting the photo's I spoke about of Greeks helping the refugees, I was kind enough to show him some that didn't didn't have images of my friends on, and he then insinuated that they were library picture, not from my facebook friends.

So I'd be grateful if the thread was kept open and people like Stormee and Didge did not get the chance to get it shut.

by eddie Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:31 pm

sassy wrote:
eddie wrote:Guys are we debating the topic or are we in-house fighting again?
Be a shame to lock a really good thread.

Vic had told Didge not to do what he is obviously doing again. Please don't lock the thread because of him, it's a good thread.

You and storm started and then aspca came along and joined in
Didge asked you all to stop. Isn't that what happened?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I have no idea what you're blaming didge for in this particular thread.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:33 pm

eddie wrote:
sassy wrote:

Vic had told Didge not to do what he is obviously doing again. Please don't lock the thread because of him, it's a good thread.

You and storm started and then aspca came along and joined in
Didge asked you all to stop. Isn't that what happened?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I have no idea what you're blaming didge for in this particular thread.

See my post above, I had every right to complain about Stormee's insinuations and if Didge had not tried to stir thinking he was making himself look angelic, that is where it would have stopped. Don't get fooled by didge again.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:34 pm

eddie wrote:
sassy wrote:

Vic had told Didge not to do what he is obviously doing again. Please don't lock the thread because of him, it's a good thread.

You and storm started and then aspca came along and joined in
Didge asked you all to stop. Isn't that what happened?

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I have no idea what you're blaming didge for in this particular thread.

You are wasting your time Eddie

Now the thread is about attention seeking

I am bowing out, let them fight, I could care less now

by eddie Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:40 pm

Yes sassy. I saw how it transpired.
You brought a remark from another thread onto here and storm retaliated then aspca came and defended you and attacked storm blah blah
Didge said "neither of you are debating..etc"

Like I said: I didn't see didge do anything on this particular thread (because this is the one we are discussing!)

So as was said earlier:

Let's all drop it now.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:45 pm

Stormee wrote:Stop trolling, stalking me as usual, I knew twaz too good to last.

Guess you missed it: but Sassy was going above and beyond providing what the 'COY - BOY' Stormee was alluding too and just had nothing else to add to the conversation!

Then #1 ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 2981866455

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:45 pm

eddie wrote:Yes sassy. I saw how it transpired.
You brought a remark from another thread onto here and storm retaliated then aspca came and defended you and attacked storm blah blah
Didge said "neither of you are debating..etc"

Like I said: I didn't see didge do anything on this particular thread (because this is the one we are discussing!)

So as was said earlier:

Let's all drop it now.

Wrong, but never mind, I'd rather we stayed on topic and people didn't insinuate I was lying when I'd been kind enough to give them something they had asked for.

by eddie Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:52 pm

Yes I saw all that.
You know exactly what I'm saying and I know you do.

Anyway.
A woman I admire quite a bit is Anita Roddick. Was quite sad when she died

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:57 pm

eddie wrote:Yes I saw all that.
You know exactly what I'm saying and I know you do.

Anyway.
A woman I admire quite a bit is Anita Roddick. Was quite sad when she died

So when you are absent is this the method that is going to be allowed to continue confused

; because if it is I really need to know and perhaps a formal announcement from the entire ADMIN TEAM should be done ASAP.

Didge stated >
That is what I was trying to stop as two people were ganging up again not debating

But hey its your job, and you were not here

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is allowed to jump in/derail/attack/troll and just cause general chaos --- because he's such the prime example for following the rules and specific orders from LordFoul. Please advice the entire community so we'll ALL be aware of his authority and act accordingly ADD YOUR POST FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY - Page 4 479860004

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by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:12 pm

1. Glückel of Hameln (1645-1724)

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Wrote a memoir of Jewish life in Central Europe covering the second half of the 17th and early 18th Centuries. Her book is an important description of what Jewish life was like at that time. Her account of life provided scholars with an intimate picture of German Jewish communal life in the late-17th-early eighteenth century Jewish ghetto. It was a time of transition from the authority and autonomy of the Medieval kehilla, toward a more modern ethos in which membership in the community was voluntary and Jewish identity far more personal and existential. (For more information)

2. Bruriah (ca. 2nd century Palestine)

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The only woman in the Talmud ( a central text of Rabbinic Judaism, considered second to the Torah) who is both a teacher and a source of Jewish law. She was the wife of the Tanna Rabbi Meir and the daughter of Rabbi Hananiah Ben Teradion, who is listed as one of the “Ten Martyrs.” She is greatly admired for her breadth of knowledge in matters pertaining to both halachah and aggadah, and is said to have learned from the rabbis 300 halachot on a single cloudy day (Tractate Pesachim 62b). Her parents were put to death by the Romans for teaching Torah, but she carried on their legacy. (For more information)

3. Henrietta Szold (1860-1945)

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Founded Hadassah, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America and was a founder of Youth Aliyah which located 30,000 children and brought them safely to Palestine. She was a major intellect whose work with Louis Ginsburg on his Legends of the Jews was never acknowledged in her lifetime. She was the first female student at the Jewish Theological Institute, admitted only after she agreed not to seek accreditation for her academic work. (For more information)

4. Lillian Wald (1867-1940)

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Known as the “Angel of Henry Street” she created the Henry Street Settlement House in New York’s Lower East Side which was an early advocate for nursing in schools. She was a giant in public health and social work. She campaigned for suffrage and was a supporter of racial integration. She was involved in the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). (For more information)

5. Golda Meir (1898-1978)

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An Israeli teacher,kibbutznik and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel. Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel’s first and the world’s third woman to hold such an office, , she was described as the “Iron Lady” of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. ; She was often portrayed as the “strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people” (For more information)

6. Rabbi Regina Jonas (1902-1944)

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The first woman rabbi. Ordained at the Hochschule für die Wissenschaft des Judentums in Berlin in 1935, she was murdered in Auschwitz in October 1944. Her story was essentially unknown until after the fall of the Berlin Wall when East German Archives became available. (For more information)

7. Betty Friedan (1921-2006)

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Author of the game changing book “The Feminine Mystique” in 1963 which changed the way or culture looks at women and the way women look at themselves. She was a founder of NOW (National Organization of Women) and the National Women’s Political Caucus. Her other important books include The Second Stage and Fountain of Age. (For more information)

8. Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933- Present)

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The first Jewish woman and only the second woman to serve on the US Supreme Court. She is generally viewed as belonging to the liberal wing of the Court. Before becoming a judge, Ginsburg spent a considerable portion of her legal career as an advocate for the advancement of women’s rights as a constitutional principle. She advocated as a volunteer lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union and was a member of its board of directors and one of its general counsel in the 1970s. She was a professor at Rutgers School of Law–Newark and Columbia Law School. (For more Information)

9. Gracia Mendes Nasi (1510–1569)

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She was one of the wealthiest Jewish women of Renaissance Europe. She married into the eminent international banking and finance company known as the House of Mendes. She was the aunt and business partner of Joseph Miques, who became a prominent figure in the politics of the Ottoman Empire. She also developed an escape network that saved hundreds of Conversos from the Inquisition. (For more information)

10. Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum (1959 – Present)

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Sharon Kleinbaum (born 1959) is a leading social justice activist and an openly lesbian rabbi who has been Senior Rabbi of New York City’s Congregation Beit Simchat Torah (CBST, the largest LGBTQ synagogue in the world) since 1992. She is a prominent advocate for human rights. She graduated from Barnard College and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, where she was ordained. While at Barnard College, she led protests against Barnard’s investments in South Africa and against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. She has two daughters. Sharon Kleinbaum was named one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek for six years (2007-2012), as well as one of Newsweek’s 150 Women Who Shake the World. She was also named one of the Top 10 Women Religious Leaders and one of the 15 Inspiring LGBT Religious Leaders by the Huffington Post. (For more information)

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:13 pm

eddie wrote:Yes I saw all that.
You know exactly what I'm saying and I know you do.

Anyway.
A woman I admire quite a bit is Anita Roddick. Was quite sad when she died

She did a lot for women all over the world, I think her contribution is vastly underestimated.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:15 pm

Boudicca (died 60/61AD)

First comes Boudicca, warrior queen of the ancient Iceni tribe, who led a rebellion that nearly ended Roman rule in Britain. When the Romans plundered the tribe’s lands in modern-day Norfolk, Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, flogged Boudicca and raped her two daughters, the Iceni rose up. With other tribes, they wiped out the Romans’ Ninth Legion and sacked their strongholds at Colchester, London and St Albans, taking no prisoners (according to Roman historians) and massacring at least 70,000. But it is Boudicca alone, standing tall and Titian-haired in her chariot, who is remembered among the freedom fighters, and honoured with a dramatic statue, arms raised, by Thomas Thornycroft, near London’s Westminster Pier.

Queen Elizabeth I (1533-1603)

If Boudicca is the feistiest figure from Ancient Britain, Elizabeth I is surely the most famous in more recent history. She is also the first of three queens not born to rule but nonetheless outstanding monarchs. She escaped the disgrace of her mother, Queen Anne Boleyn (executed by Elizabeth’s father, King Henry VIII), then survived the politically dangerous reigns of her brother, King Edward VI, and her sister Queen Mary. Eventually inheriting the throne herself, she emerged a powerful ruler, adept at boosting her popularity by ‘progressing’ around the country and playing up her image as “the Virgin Queen” – ¨though her closeness to her “sweet Robin”, Lord Leicester, might suggest otherwise. While many see in her a charismatic queen addressing her troops as they awaited the Spanish Armada, to others she is the evil executioner of Mary Queen of Scots, the woman who should have ruled England, rather than Elizabeth, merely the daughter of the king’s former mistress.
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Elizabeth I

Nell Gwyn (1650-1687)

Of all royal mistresses down the ages, none has graced the job more joyously than “pretty witty Nell”, as Samuel Pepys called her. From an orange girl selling fruit to London theatregoers, Eleanor Gwyn rose to be an actress who caught the eye of the merry monarch, King Charles II, and ended up with a royal pension and a splendid house in Pall Mall. When Nell first made her mark on the stage, London was reveling in the return of the king and court life (in 1660, after the Commonwealth period of Puritan rule), and the spirit of Restoration London is epitomised in her ample-bosomed portrait. High spirits, low birth and earthy humour naturally made her enemies at court, especially among the king’s other mistresses. But, with Charles, she remained a favourite and tradition says that, on his deathbed, he urged his brother to take care of her; just as Lord Nelson begged others to look after his concubine Lady Emma Hamilton.

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Few lives could be more different from Nell and Emma’s than the morally upright spinsterhood of Jane Austen, our most celebrated woman novelist. The story of her life in rural Chawton and fashionable Bath has been told times over; and her subject, as every reader knows, was the “truth, universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”. But while Regency London’s high society might be led by libertines, Jane’s demure heroines know full well that even a runaway romance which ended in marriage, like Lydia Bennet’s, brought shame and destroyed her sisters’ hopes of finding husbands. From Pride and Prejudice and Emma to Persuasion, Jane’s final story, it is Jane’s genius to observe, and sometimes satirise, their attention to status, manners and reputation.

Elizabeth Fry (1780-1845)

Mrs Fry may be the least familiar of our famous ladies, but her pioneering work as a prison reformer has long been recognised and still earns her a place here. Born into the Gurney family, her marriage to Joseph Fry united two old and wealthy Quaker families, equally noted for piety and philanthropy, and Elizabeth became deeply involved in charitable work and the Quaker ministry. It was a visit to Newgate jail that opened her eyes to the appallingly squalid conditions women prisoners suffered, crowded together with their children. Thereafter she became a familiar figure, in her Quaker dress and bonnet, prison visiting and reading the Bible. Her campaigning and religious convictions succeeded in reforming prisoners and their conditions, by introducing education, paid employment, female warders, and recognition that all inmates must be treated humanely.

Queen Victoria (1819-1901)

Victoria is the second queen who came to the throne by default, when her royal uncles, King George IV and King William IV, failed to produce a surviving legitimate heir. Crowned in 1838, her initial limited grasp of constitutional matters was soon supplemented by her husband, Prince Albert (whose death in 1861 left her in mourning for the rest of her life); and her favourite prime ministers, Lord Melbourne and Disraeli. With their help, and the colonising power of British forces and trading companies, she became the most powerful woman in the world. At home, her scandal-free private life made royalty respectable, after the racy behaviour of her uncles. If the rigid formality of her Court now seems absurdly stiff, it’s worth remembering that her Court composer was Sir Arthur Sullivan, co-creator of the comic Gilbert and Sullivan light operas.

Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)

The first woman to hold the Order of Merit and appear on a UK banknote, Miss Nightingale was a national treasure before she was 40. Her pioneering work tending British troops in the Crimean War earned her the thanks of a grateful nation. The money raised in appreciation funded her nurses’ training school at London’s St Thomas’s Hospital, and from there her influence and principles spread worldwide. Despite her own ill health she devoted the rest of her long life to improving sanitation and health care, not without a reputation for bossiness. Yet her popular image remains that of a “ministering angel”, as The Times’ war correspondent put it, paying night time visits to the wounded soldiers. Every year, her birthday in May is marked at Westminster Abbey and East Wellow church, in Hampshire, where she was buried; and this year there are special services for the centenary of her death, as well as new exhibitions at St Thomas’s Hospital museum, redeveloped for the anniversary, and at Claydon House in Buckinghamshire, where she often stayed with her sister.

Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

Historians may disagree on the help or harm that Emmeline gave to the women’s suffrage movement, but few doubt she was one of its most inspirational figureheads. After years working for votes for women, but with little success, Emmeline, helped by her daughter Christabel, established the Women’s Social and Political Union as a militant wing of the women’s movement. Their campaign of window-smashing, arson and violent demonstrations led to regular arrests, hunger strikes and brutal force feeding, which inevitably drew mixed public reaction. On the outbreak of war in 1914, Emmeline suspended the campaign, encouraging women to put their efforts into war work instead. After peace was signed, women over 30 were granted the vote, and shortly before Emmeline’s death the age was reduced to 21, to match men’s votes.

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)

As Britain’s first female prime minister (1979), Mrs Thatcher’s place in history is rightly guaranteed. Yet it is her 11 consecutive years as PM, unmatched in the 20th century, and her role as the first woman leader of a major Western democracy, that make her one of the most dominant figures in modern politics. As leader of the Conservative Party, her pro-privatisation policy and public-spending cuts naturally brought her into open conflict with trade unions and socialists, earning her the nickname the Iron Lady. With victory in the Falklands War and her narrow escape from an IRA bomb in Brighton, her popularity soared and, in 1987, she won a then unprecedented third general election. But her Euro-sceptic and Poll Tax policies had caused division in her cabinet and, in 1990, she was forced to resign as party leader. Two years later, she went to the House of Lords as Baroness Thatcher.

Queen Elizabeth II (1926- )

Like Elizabeth I and Victoria, the Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was not expected to become queen. But the abdication of her uncle, King Edward VIII, propelled her father to the throne, as George VI, and when he died tragically young, in 1952, Elizabeth found herself ruler of the UK and Commonwealth. Since then she has witnessed greater changes in her realms – in society, science, technology, medicine and world affairs – than any of her predecessors can have imagined. They would have been astonished, possibly appalled, at the millions of miles she has travelled, hands she has shaken, and public engagements she has fulfilled. But they would have admired the unwavering sense of duty that has given Britain a head of state for nearly 60 years whose personal standards of service to her country must be the envy of many countries. And doubtless they would have applauded the courage and humour in her Annus Horribilis speech in 1992, only hours after her much-loved Windsor Castle was devastated by fire.

- See more at: http://www.britain-magazine.com/carousel/10-greatest-women-in-british-history/#sthash.MNDkNl5k.dpuf

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:18 pm

Name

Cause or Field

Lifespan

Summary

1500s

Lady Deborah Moody

Religious freedom, leadership

1586-1659

Brought settlers seeking religious freedom to Gravesend at New Amsterdam (later New York). She was a respected and important community leader.

Anne Marbury Hutchinson

Religious freedom of expression

1591-1643

Banished from Boston by Puritans in 1637, due to her views on grace. In New York, natives killed her and all but one of her children.

Pocahontas

Native and English amity

1595-1617

She saved the life of Capt. John Smith at the hands of her father, Chief Powhatan. Later married the famous John Rolfe. Met royalty in England.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:24 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
eddie wrote:Yes I saw all that.
You know exactly what I'm saying and I know you do.

Anyway.
A woman I admire quite a bit is Anita Roddick. Was quite sad when she died
So when you are absent is this the method that is going to be allowed to continue because if it is I really need to know and perhaps a formal announcement from the entire ADMIN TEAM should be done ASAP.

Didge stated >
That is what I was trying to stop as two people were ganging up again not debating

But hey its your job, and you were not here
While there isn't any moderator signed in the #1 is allowed to jump in/derail/attack/troll and just cause general chaos --- because he's such the prime example for following the rules and specific orders from LordFoul. Please advice the entire community so we'll ALL be aware of his authority and act accordingly

Despite his feeble attempt to stay within the frame work of the TOPIC ---
I'm still requesting a CLARIFCATION regarding this behavior this morning from this self-anointed wee-child Suspect

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:25 pm

1600s	top of page
Margaret Brent	Human rights; women's suffrage	1600-1669	Thought to be North America's first feminist, Brent became one of the largest landowners in Maryland. Aided in settling land dispute; raised armed volunteer group.
Mary Barrett Dyer	Religious activism	Early 1600s- 1660	Quaker beliefs led to Dyer's hanging; later recognized as martyr for quickening the reversal of anti-Quaker laws inMassachusetts and other colonies.
Anne Bradstreet	Poetry	1612-1672	One of America's first poets; Bradstreet's poetry was noted for its important historic content until mid-1800s publication ofContemplations, a book of religious poems.
Mary Bliss Parsons	aIlleged witchcraft	1628-1712	Wife of prominent Salem, Massachusetts, citizen, Parsons was acquitted of witchcraft charges in the most documented and unusual witch hunt trialin colonial history.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:27 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:
So when you are absent is this the method that is going to be allowed to continue because if it is I really need to know and perhaps a formal announcement from the entire ADMIN TEAM should be done ASAP.

While there isn't any moderator signed in the #1 is allowed to jump in/derail/attack/troll and just cause general chaos --- because he's such the prime example for following the rules and specific orders from LordFoul. Please advice the entire community so we'll ALL be aware of his authority and act accordingly

Despite his feeble attempt to stay within the frame work of the TOPIC ---
I'm still requesting a CLARIFCATION regarding this behavior this morning from this self-anointed wee-child

I will put this as bluntly as possible so you can understand

Nobody gives a shit about you being a petulant little brat

Now go and sulk somewhere else and stop spoiling the thread

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:35 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:
So when you are absent is this the method that is going to be allowed to continue because if it is I really need to know and perhaps a formal announcement from the entire ADMIN TEAM should be done ASAP.

While there isn't any moderator signed in the #1 is allowed to jump in/derail/attack/troll and just cause general chaos --- because he's such the prime example for following the rules and specific orders from LordFoul. Please advice the entire community so we'll ALL be aware of his authority and act accordingly

Despite his feeble attempt to stay within the frame work of the TOPIC ---
I'm still requesting a CLARIFCATION regarding this behavior this morning from this self-anointed wee-child **bumping** until I get a MOD reply!

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 2:36 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
aspca4ever wrote:

Despite his feeble attempt to stay within the frame work of the TOPIC ---
I'm still requesting a CLARIFCATION regarding this behavior this morning from this self-anointed wee-child **bumping** until I get a MOD reply!

I will put this as bluntly as possible so you can understand

Nobody gives a shit about you being a petulant little brat

Now go and sulk somewhere else and stop spoiling the thread

by Victorismyhero Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:07 pm

STORMEE pack in insinuating Sassy's lying and stop playing the victim...you are NOT...

SASSY...stop BAITING Stormee

ASPCA stop the girly gang activities

SASSY and ASPCA...STOP tag teaming

DIDGE...thanks for trying to put a stop to it....

ASPCA...

aspca4ever wrote:

aspca4ever wrote:

So when you are absent is this the method that is going to be allowed to continue confused because if it is I really need to know and perhaps a formal announcement from the entire ADMIN TEAM should be done ASAP.

While there isn't any moderator signed in the #1 is allowed to jump in/derail/attack/troll and just cause general chaos --- because he's such the prime example for following the rules and specific orders from LordFoul. Please advice the entire community so we'll ALL be aware of his authority and act accordingly

Despite his feeble attempt to stay within the frame work of the TOPIC ---
I'm still requesting a CLARIFCATION regarding this behavior this morning from this self-anointed wee-child Suspect **bumping** until I get a MOD reply!

Stop this pathetic lets undermine the mods game...I've seen it all before and it impresses no one....

and didge did nothing wrong (on this occaision) besides telling you and sassy to stop YOUR trolling behaviour and you girly gang tag teaming

Mods cant be online 24/7....

IF you CHOOSE to act like a fool, and someone points it out TOUGH. I told you elsewhere...if you dont want it...DONT start it...

I only see 3 people disrupting this thread

STORMEE
SASSY
and YOU.....

I did ask both sassy and didge to calm it down between them and its been in the main adhered to...I'd repeat that request

AND I'LL THANK YOU ASPCA...to keep your damned nose OUT of things and STOP the stirring...

becasue I swear..if you DONT...i'll can your ass..

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:13 pm

Didge thanks for trying to put a stop to it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bloody hell Vic, Uriah Heep has changed his name to Didge and you are falling for it.

So it's tag teaming to stand up to someone calling you liar.

I'll note that next time more than one person is having a go at tommy, you and I included.

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:14 pm

For my part Victor as I have not gotten off onto the best start with Aspca, which has continued unabated. I hereby apologise for any accusations and slagging between us and hope that can be the end of the situation, so all can move on. I hope this helps and this can put and end to some of the disruption.

catch you all later

by Victorismyhero Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:23 pm

sassy wrote:Didge thanks for trying to put a stop to it!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bloody hell Vic, Uriah Heep has changed his name to Didge and you are falling for it.

listen sassy...I asked both you and dige to lay off the personal nonsense and so far (within reason) you have both managed it....GOOD

So it's tag teaming to stand up to someone calling you liar.

probably NOT...but it IS tag teaming for the two of you to have a go at didge for trying to stop you and aspca from continuing to fall for Stormees nonsense...why not just tell Stormee to F**k off...no need for post after post of pointless bilge back and forth between you and her... how many postw wer you GOING to expend chewing Stormee?? talk about killing a thread

I'll note that next time more than one person is having a go at tommy, you and I included.

how many times do you need teaching the difference between "tag teaming" and multiple people challenging a post or even an ideology expressed here...

by Guest Fri Mar 18, 2016 5:30 pm

aspca4ever wrote:
sassy wrote:

Have him on ignore, so much easier, didn't even notice he'd posted.

But - But those voices within his wee-little brain have become agitated {yet again} and despite his acknowledging LordFouls post and repeated post about:
My gender, My avatar, My location, My membership --- #1 returned to calling me by another former members name and now he's trolling my every post and changed my gender - YET AGAIN! Promises - Promises, that #1 never has any respect nor intention of following the moderators directives!

MARVELOUS---no wonder troll#1 has ignored your directive to stop saying: my gender is wrong - that my avater is wrong because YOU reinforce those voices within his head and now have encouraged him to just KEEP IT GOING---

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by eddie Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:42 pm

Another woman I quite admire is, Princess Diana, although we will never know if she played the victim or actually was, the victim.
Still she did an awful lot for AIDS and personally, I found that touching and much-needed at the time.

by Syl Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:45 pm

eddie wrote:Another woman I quite admire is, Princess Diana, although we will never know if she played the victim or actually was, the victim.
Still she did an awful lot for AIDS and personally, I found that touching and much-needed at the time.

OMG....I just came in this thread to nominate her as well. Shocked

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