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Posted: 06 Sep 2010 02:55 AM PDT On this Labor Day in the United States, we pause to contemplate the positions assigned women in the days of the Great Depression (the closer to "household arts" the better). All are posters commissioned by the Works Progress Administration: |
Posted: 06 Sep 2010 01:04 AM PDT On this day in ... ... 1970 (40 years ago today), in the course of 4 hours, 4 airliners en route to New York were hijacked in Europe's skies. Passengers thwarted assailants on 1 plane. Nearly 400 passengers on the other 3 planes were being held in "different locations in the Middle East," and the hostage-takers, affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, were demanding the release of 3 persons jailed in Switzerland. Most hostages would be released on September 11 of the same year; the final 6 would be freed on October 1 in exchange for Leila Khaled (right). (photo credit) Born 2 decades earlier in Haifa, Khaled had been arrested on the 1st plane, in the course of her thwarted attempt to reach the flight deck while grenade-armed. Her life's the subject of a 2006 documentary. (Prior September 6 posts are here, here, and here.) |
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