This article examines the history of women in engineering in the United States during World War II. Women were actively recruited as engineering aides by the federal government, which saw them as a temporary substitute for men who were in the military. Yet this crisis did not break down the ...
Raised in Fort Worth, she served in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in World War Two, worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and a copywriter for Neiman-Marcus, took up fencing and became a regional champion. In the late 1940s, she moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where she b...
Peking Opera: Behind the Greasepaint Part 2 Peking Opera: Behind the Greasepaint Part 2 Dynamic China-Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Part 2 The Wandering Chef's Yunnan Adventure Part1 The House of 3,000 Lattice Windows Part 2 For the love of dancing Part 2 Survival: Life in a Xinjiang Desert ...
In addition, some SCI veterans married women who were not medical care staff. Study methods The present paper investigates the adjustment of World War II spinal cord injury veterans in regard to their marital and sexual life. There are about 40 World War II spinal cord injured veterans who ...
Based on county-level census data for the German state of Bavaria in 1939 and 1946, we use World War II as a natural experiment to study the effects of sex ratio changes on out-of-wedlock fertility. Our findings show that war-induced shortfalls of men to women significantly increased the...
Ireland and the Great War : 'a war to unite us all'? Acknowledgements Introduction - Adrian Gregory and Senia Paseta 1. Thomas Kettle: An Irish soldier in the army of Europe? - Senia Paseta 2. Dulce et Decorum: Irish nobles and the Great War 1914-19 - Peter Martin 3. Women and vo...
On 22 June 1941, the Nazi Germans invaded the Soviet Union, commencing what was, in some eyes, the ‘real’ World War II, and certainly the one that was inspired by the most direct ideological impulse, which unleashed the most horrendous brutality and which still remains, overtly or covertly...
Through examining three separate letter collections of three wartime women serving in very diverse situations, this project aims to focus on the changes through which these women progress, as gleaned from their writing, concerning the overall effect of the war in their lives, particularly relating ...
The killing during World War 2 could be quite impersonal. Here, teenager Kazimiera Mika tries to revive her dead sister during the early days of the German invasion of Poland in September 1939. It was the first time she had experienced death, and it was caused by a passing plane on a st...
1932 IC - The Red Duke is freed by his disciples and once more wages war on Aquitaine. His army is again defeated at Ceren Field, and the Red Duke flees to the sanctuary of the Forest of Chalons.[20a] 1937 IC - Constant Drachenfels poisons Emperor Carolus and his court at a banquet...