50 Historical Images With Backstories You Might Not Have Known

Jaya: yes. But: they were almost certainly women's suffragists - "suffragette" was a term applied to those women's suffragists who took direct action such as smashing windows, chaining themselves to railings, and so on.

Women in the UK gained the right to vote in 1918, but only those over the age of 30 who met certain property qualifications could vote. It wasn't until 1928 that women gained equal voting rights with men, allowing all women over the age of 21 to vote. Women in the u.s. gained the right in 1920.

And years after New Zealand did it!

They somehow used laser beams to determine the positions of the tunnel boring machines to an amazing accuracy.

They’re well aware of the benefits. It’s the obligations they dislike.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Way :)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamir_(ship)

"Oi, ma'am. You got a loicense fo' those?"

I saw a woman built like that perform a few years ago. It was a burlesque show. It took place in a theatre with a fairly tall ceiling. Like I said, legit burlesque show in an old silent film theatre. They ran a pole from top to bottom. She went up. She inverted herself and proceeded to dance on the ceiling. BTW when I saw her up close, she was also 5' nothing so DAMM! Oh and that night was her 30th birthday. D.A.M.N!

Xenia Zaragevna Onatopp.

Too bad some jerk wad hijacked all his inventions 130 years ago.

Also - Even though Tesla's AC electrical generation ideas were ... well correct, Edison smeared him so that his DC technology would be used. Spoiler: AC power generation worked.

Not as bad as the guy who hijacked his work while he was still alive..

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There are like 15 of them.

They were home schooled in different countries. Which one did you mom live in?

As a frequent visitor of Niagara Falls it's interesting to see places you used to be able to go but can't anymore. Both for safety, preservation and stop the ídiots. My first visit was in the 70's. The river rarely freezes anymore but people walked over the ice bridges at the bottom of the Falls. Unfortunately many slipped and díed.

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And yet, even now and again, someone tries.

I'm sure I remember people climbing it in 1955. I was disappointed that my sister was deemed too young to manage the big steps.

That is a myth and has repeatedly been scotched.

Yes, though not as weird when one considers how much more profitable fossil fuels are to land owners and certain countries of influence

Not really. Until modern technology was able to make things like Lithium-ion batteries and highly efficient brushless motors, electric cars were very slow, had far less range and were far less convenient than petrol or diesel cars. Even now, batteries are still far behind petrol and diesel in terms of energy density. It still takes far longer to recharge an electric car than it does to refuel a petrol or diesel car, they still cannot match the range of an equivalent size and spec diesel or petrol car, they cost more to produce and when you take into account the environmental harm that producing and transporting their batteries causes they are not that much better in terms of the environment. My main vehicle is a 1979 Land Rover and it does everything I need a vehicle to do. There is no way I am ever going to replace it with an electric vehicle.

They originally failed because of high cost, limited range and the introduction of cheap gas cars. They also became associated as women's cars. You know why I haven't bought an electric car?

Until the mid 2000s the tech wasnt there to make it practical and not until 2015 to make it affordable. Those cars back then had 30-40 mile ranged, took 14-16 hours to charge, and cost as much as 12 Model T's. The best electric car back then, was Edisons, 100 mile range and only 24 hours to fully charge, its battery alone cost the same as 10 Model T's the year Edisons car went out of production. In the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, auto companies worked on it, but the technology wasnt there to make it viable yet. First company to produce a viable affordable electric car for the market was Nissan, and the first to make charging speeds usable was Tesla brand. These are recent developments relatively speaking

electric vehicles were the main type from the 1880s until the 1920s