It’s reported today that Saudi King Abdullah announced that the nation’s women will gain the right to vote in local elections to be held in 2015. And now a little bit of history of gaining the right to vote by women. US: Women got the vote in 1869 in Wyoming Territory in the USA followed [...]
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When did women gain the right to vote?
Posted: 25th September 2011 by admin in History, Human Rights0
Tomorrow, August 6 is the 65-th date of bombibg Japan cities Hirosima and Nagasaki by US. In the early morning hours of August 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named Enola Gay took off from the island of Tinian and headed north by northwest toward Japan. The target of Hiroshima was a city of considerable military [...]
Barack Obama Dance
Posted: 22nd January 2009 by Nata in Celebrity, Election News, History, News, PresidentsBarack and Michelle Obama’s “First Dance” at the Neighborhood Ball. Mariah Carey, Will.I.Am, Beyoncé and others gather to celebrate Obama presidency, Jamie Foxx, Queen Latifah, Vanessa Williams, Ray Romano, Leonardo DiCaprio and Denzel Washington participated in the festivities as well. Washington introduced the country’s newest first couple to the roaring audience. “It’s a privilege for [...]
Sept. 30 was shown German investigative television documentary film exposed the Nazi-era misdeeds of BMW’s controlling shareholder family, the Quandts. The reclusive Quandt family responded to the documentary five days later, on Oct. 5, pledging to back a research project into the family’s Nazi past and its role under the Third Reich, opening family archives [...]
A look at U.S. presidents’ job-approval ratings.
The New Zealand Constitution Act (UK) established a system of representative government for New Zealand, with a General Assembly consisting of a Legislative Council appointed by the Crown and a House of Representatives elected every five years by males over the age of 21 who owned, leased or rented property of a certain value.