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Tag Archives: Democracy
2017: How Dogs Vote
African wild dogs vote by sneezing: African wild dogs exhibit dominant-directed group living and take part in stereotyped social rallies: high energy greeting ceremonies that occur before collective movements. Not all rallies result in collective movements, for reasons that are … Continue reading
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Tagged 2010's, 21st Century, Africa, Animals, Botswana, Democracy, Dogs, Mammals
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1955: Septima Poinsette Clark
After being fired from her job as a teacher for refusing to renounce her membership in the NAACP, Septima Clark became the Director of Education at the famous Highlander Center in Tennessee—a training school for civil rights activists and trade … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Civil Rights, Democracy, Education, Rosa Parks, Septima Poinsette Clark, USA, Voting Rights, Women
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1996: How Buffalo Vote
Dutch ecologist H. H. T. Prins describes how he first came to realize that buffalo vote to determine which direction the herd should move to find grazing land: Let me first describe what takes place when a buffalo herd in … Continue reading
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Tagged 1990's, 20th Century, Animals, Buffalo, Clive Meredith, Democracy, H. H. T. Prins, Mammals, Netherlands, Poltical Science, Tanzania
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1875: An Absolute Democracy
The notion has always very generally prevailed that the queen of the bees is an absolute ruler, and issues her royal orders to willing subjects. Hence Napoleon the First sprinkled the symbolic bees over the imperial mantle that bore the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1870's, 1880's, 19th Century, Animals, Bees, Books, Democracy, France, Insects, John Burroughs, Louis Auzoux, Poltical Science, Sculpture, USA
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1965: Freedom Highway
Spider Martin: Jim Letherer on the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march in 1965. Letherer was a civil rights activist from Saginaw, Michigan. He lost a leg to bone cancer as a boy, and it was his own experience growing … Continue reading
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Tagged 1960's, 20th Century, African-Americans, Books, Civil Rights, Democracy, Disability, Jim Letherer, Judaism, Lynda Blackmon Lowery, Spider Martin, USA, Voting Rights
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1884: Joseph Arch’s Hands
Born the son of a farmworker, Joseph Arch started work at the age of nine—first as a crow-scarer, then as a plough-boy. Eventually, he mastered a range of skills that allowed him to move around the Midlands and South Wales, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1880's, 19th Century, Ceramics, Democracy, Farms, Great Britain, Hands, History, Joseph Arch, Labor, Unions, Voting Rights
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1910: Suffragette Madonnas
The message of these anti-suffrage postcards is that if women have the right to vote, society will be turned upsidedown and men will become feminized, forced to do the women’s work of taking care of babies—how horrible! Although these … Continue reading
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Tagged 1910's, 20th Century, Children, Democracy, Fathers, Feminism, Postcards, USA
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1831: Bristol Burns
W. J. Müller: Bristol Burns (1831) Arising from the House of Lords’s rejection of a bill that would have increased representation in the House of Commons, the 1831 Bristol Riots were part of the long struggle for democracy in the … Continue reading
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Tagged 1830's, 19th Century, Activism, Art, Democracy, Fire, Great Britain, Painting, Riots, Voting Rights, W. J. Müller
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1914: A Stone’s Throw
Rocks thrown through the windows of Buckingham Palace by protesting Suffragettes in 1914: “If a constitutional deputation is refused, we must present a stone message.” “Constitutional methods being ignored drive us to window smashing.” In the United Kingdom, women over … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th Century, Democracy, Direct Action, Feminism, Great Britain, Voting Rights, Women
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