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  1. 9 hours ago

    📝 New entry: Church of San Vitale, a masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Ravenna, Italy.

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  2. 12 hours ago

    In 1893 New Zealand became the first country to grant women the right to vote, thanks in large part to the tireless efforts of Kate Sheppard.

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    At 20 million years old and 1,620 meters deep, Russia's Lake Baikal is both the oldest and the deepest lake in the world.

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    Mar 8

    📝 New entry: Welcome director Ava DuVernay to Britannica School! She's the first black woman to be nominated for a Best Director Golden Globe and to direct a film nominated for a Best Picture Oscar

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  5. 17 hours ago

    The Barbie doll was introduced 59 years . As notes, her physical appearance was modeled on a German doll that was sold primarily as a risqué gag gift for men.

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    Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin, the first person to travel into space, was born in 1934.

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  7. Mar 8

    One of the first women to write for Britannica was Millicent Garrett Fawcett, a leader of the woman suffrage movement in England. She contributed the COMMUNISM entry in our 9th edition (1877).

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  8. Mar 8

    More than 1,000 American women participated in the Women Airforce Service Pilots program in World War II. They were the first women to fly U.S. military aircraft.

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  9. Mar 8

    : An Afghan woman obtains her voter registration card in Kabul, 2004. The elections held that year were the first since the fall of the Taliban, which had prohibited women from voting.

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  10. Mar 8

    The world's oldest full-length novel, The Tale of Genji, was written by a woman in 11th-century Japan.

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  11. Mar 8

    There is a long history of women fighting for their rights. In the 3rd century BCE, for instance, women barricaded the Roman Forum to protest a law restricting their use of expensive goods.

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  12. Mar 8

    Through groundbreaking scientific work, these 10 women expanded our understanding of life on Earth.

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  13. Mar 7

    The Republic of Seychelles consists of about 115 islands in the Indian Ocean. Independent since 1976, it is one of the world's smallest countries.

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  14. Mar 7

    French photography pioneer Nicéphore Niépce was born in 1765. This view from his window (circa 1826) is the earliest known photo in existence. 📷

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  15. Mar 7

    in 2010 Kathryn Bigelow became the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director. (Only four other women have ever been nominated.)

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  16. Mar 7

    In case of emergency, the world's largest collection of seeds is secured on an Arctic island.

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  17. Mar 7

    Maria Sibylla Merian was a scientific illustrator in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. In 1699 she traveled to Suriname, where she made this drawing of a caiman biting a snake.

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  18. Mar 7

    in 1965 state troopers attacked American civil rights activists (including ) as they marched across a bridge in Selma, Alabama.

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  19. Mar 6

    From the : An entry from our 3rd edition (1788-97), titled FALSE NEWS.

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  20. Mar 6

    Michelangelo was born in 1475. But one of his most famous works actually originated years earlier.

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