Women
Questions
1. What is the best thing about women?
2. Who’s the greatest woman you know?
3. Who are the greatest women in your country’s history?
4. Why do women like fashion so much?
5. What common characteristics do all women share?
6. How would the world be different if all leaders were women?
7. How will women be different 100 years from now?
8. “Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.” Do you agree?
Videos
During the Victorian Age, women were unlikely to become great explorers, but a few intelligent, gritty and brave women made major contributions to the study of previously little-understood territory. Courtney Stephens
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examines three women — Marianne North, Mary Kingsley and Alexandra David-Néel — who wouldn’t take no for an answer (and shows why we should be grateful that they didn’t).
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Category: Geography & Travel
Annie Londonderry gained infamy for being the first woman to bicycle around the world—all in only 15 months. But the story is a little more complicated than that. During a time when very few women rode bicycles, legend has
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it that Annie accepted a wager to circumnavigate the world on two wheels. As the story goes, she traveled the globe, hunting tigers in India with royalty, sustaining a gunshot wound to the shoulder, and even being interned in a Japanese prison. But her incredible tales are more myth than truth …
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Category: Geography & Travel | Sports
Marie Skłodowska Curie’s revolutionary research laid the groundwork for our understanding of physics and chemistry, blazing trails in oncology, technology, medicine, and nuclear physics, to name a few. But what did she
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actually do? Shohini Ghose expounds on some of Marie Skłodowska Curie’s most revolutionary discoveries.
Lesson by Shohini Ghose, animation by Anna Nowakowska.
Lesson by Shohini Ghose, animation by Anna Nowakowska.
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Category: Science