Clio dreamed of... backfire!

Portrait of an unknown New Zealand suffragette. Charles Hemus Studio Auckland, circa 1880. The sitter wears a white camelia and has cut off her hair, both symbolic of support for advancing women rights.

Though Delacroix painted Liberty as a woman leading the French people during the 1830 Revolution, women would still have to wait, and fight, a lot more to get the same rights than men in Western countries... Today, we commemorate the momentous time when women first got and exercised the righ to vote... by mistake. It is Tuesday, November 28th, 1893. Welcome to New Zealand.

Aunque Delacroix pintó a la libertad como una mujer guiando al pueblo en la Revolución de 1830, lo cierto es que las mujeres aún tendrían que esperar, y luchar, mucho para conseguir alcanzar los mismos derechos que los hombres en las sociedades occidentales... Hoy, conmemoramos el trascendental momento en el que, por primera vez en Occidente, las mujeres obtuvieron y ejercieron su derecho a votar... por error. Es martes, 28 de noviembre de 1893. Bienvenidos a Nueva Zelanda.

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Clio dreamed of... to member or not to member

RSDLP leaders during the 2nd Congress. Lenin is seated in the center. Martov is the first one seated at your right. Image tken from http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/julius_martov.htm

Today we are going to remember what was like to be a member of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party at the begining of the 20th century... and what did it matter.

Hoy, recordaremos qué significaba ser miembro del Partido Obrero Socialdemócrata Ruso al principio del siglo XX... y por qué esto es tan importante.

 

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Clio dreamed of... hope

The Hope and Progress poster by Shepard Fairey
was used during the 2008 presidential campaign.

Today we commemorate Obama's election in 2008, reflecting on his rethorical hability and how us all, in the rest of the World, experienced that historical fact.

Hoy, conmemoramos la elección de Obama en 2008, reflexionando sobre su habilidad retorica y en cómo todos nosotros, en el resto del mundo, vivimos este momento histórico.

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