Vera Fokina in the role of Tsarevna in the ballet “Firebird”, 1910.
French Infantry at the foot of a mill, Winters 1914.
Battleship Patrie with destroyer Fanfare in the foreground
When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. ‘My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.’
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?
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Nakajima J8N Kikka was Japan’s first jet aircraft.
It was developed late in World War II and the first prototype had only
flown once before the end of the conflict.
DC-10 Air Tanker
Notice the lead aircraft, serving as a scout, showing were the water bomber should start its run.
(Source: https://fonchi262.tumblr.com/)