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We got back from a trip to Krakow yesterday, but on our last full day, like so many millions before us, we visited this nearby memorial to human wickedness.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is just as humbling and upsetting as you might expect, but it was made worse for us by the thought that there are probably plenty of people in the world today who'd be happy to do the whole extermination of minority groups thing all over again...
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#OnThisDay, 11 Dec 1983, tens of thousands of women take part in 'reflect the base' at Greenham Common in the UK.
They encircle the 9 mile perimeter fence of the nuclear missile base, tearing it down in at least one place. Hundreds of women are arrested.
The Peace Camp at Greenham ran for nearly 20 years, and founded and run by women.
Watch news footage from the time: gettyimages.co.uk/detail/video…
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons
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Introduce students to Albert Einstein, the Dalai Lama, Malala Yousafzai and Maria Ressa with award winning films plus our free, classroom-ready lesson plans and discussion guides.
Real life stories of Nobel Prize winners are great tools for teaching character education, leadership, and social-emotional learning, as well as lessons on specific subjects like Journalism, Media Literacy, Social Studies, and English Language Arts.
journeysinfilm.org/teach-about…
#NobelPrize #Education #Homeschooling #Movies #Einstein #Histodons #History #Edutooters #AlbertEinstein #MalalaYousafzai #HumanRights #MariaRessa #DalaiLamac #Activism
Teach about Nobel Prize Winners with Film - Journeys in Film
We have just added new film guides to our resource library to help you teach about Nobel Prize Winners with film! Alfred Nobel (1833–1896), a wealthy Swedish scientist, left a bequest for annual international awards in physics, chemistry, medicine, a…Journeys in Film
#OnThisDay, 10 Dec 1977, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams accept the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize for their community activism in Northern Ireland.
Betty gave their lecture the following day:
nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/19…
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #NobelWomen
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Nobel Peace Prize 1976
The Nobel Peace Prize 1976 was awarded jointly to Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan "for the courageous efforts in founding a movement to put an end to the violent conflict in Northern Ireland"NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize ceremony is now held on 10 December each year, which means we have a mini-thread of #NobelWomen who accepted their medals #OnThisDay.
This is not a complete set. Finishing going through the whole list is on our to do list.
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