Working inside a printing press at RR Donnelley and Sons, printers of the Montgomery Wards Catalog, 1942, Chicago.
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On this day, 8 March 1918, women in Austria celebrated International Women’s Day on this date for the first time as thousands took to the streets protesting against World War I. There is a popular myth that March 8 was chosen on the anniversary of an 1857 strike of women workers in New York, and a further stoppage on the same date in 1908, however this is incorrect, as this excellent history of the radical, working class origins of International Women’s Day explains: https://ift.tt/2oYTI6j https://ift.tt/2C4yFqn
Margaret Hamilton was the lead software engineer of the Apollo Project. Here she stands next the the listings of the Apollo Guidance Computer source code, which she wrote herself by hand.
Bust of Thutmose III
Basalt statue of the pharaoh Thutmose III who reigned ca. 1479-1425 BC. Thutmose III was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, He became a local world power because of his foreign campaigns. He considered one of the greatest ancient Egyptian conquerors. The statue is now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.









