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The Universal Smile Of A Woman

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“Celebrating Women Police” Haiti, Potoprus County Look at their smile! These women serving in UN-Stabilization Mission in Haiti. Today is International Women's Day.  It was enacted by the United Nations in 1975 to commemorate a demonstration for women's suffrage in New York on this day of 1904.  In Italy it is a day when women give each other mimosas ... Women has set their presence in every field of life. They bare every challenge with a smile on their faces. If you don't believe this, look at the woman in the labor room, bearing her child, suffering with pain but full of power and love.  Women's smiles are universal across different the world.

March— Women's History Month

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Women's suffragists who walked from New York City to Washington, DC, to join the National American Woman Suffrage Association parade on March 3, 1913 Casting a vote for women's history This historical photo commemorates a group of women who came to Washington, DC, to march alongside thousands in the Woman Suffrage Procession on March 3, 1913. Organizers scheduled the protest on the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration to draw maximum publicity to their cause—voting rights for women. But it would be another eight years before American women would finally be guaranteed the vote. That came on August 18, 1920, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, after a century of protest and activism. March is Women's History Month in the US, the UK, and Australia. In the US, this year's theme celebrates the original suffragists who fought for and won voting rights for women. It also honors women today who fight to ensure access t...

Carnival Of Olinda

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"Carnival giant puppet", Olinda, Brazil. 

Setsubun Fuku

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"Otafuku mask", Fuchu, Tokyo