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Features Featured article Nadezhda Stasova (1822–1895) was an educator and one of the earliest leaders of the Russian women's movement. She was born into a noble and wealthy family; Tsar Alexander I of Russia was her godfather, and she received extensive private tutoring as a child. In adulthood, she dedicated herself to women's empowerment. Along with Anna Filosofova and Maria Trubnikova, she founded and led several organizations designed to promote women's cultural and economic independence, including a publishing cooperative. In a decades-long effort, they successfully pushed government officials to allow higher education for women, although continual opposition sometimes limited or even reversed their successes. Stasova eventually became the lead organizer of the Bestuzhev Courses for women in 1878, but a decade later was forced to resign under political pressure. She continued her work on women's issues right up until her death in 1895, mentoring and inspiring younger feminists. (Full article...) Recently featured: Black-throated loon 24th Waffen Mountain Division of the SS Karstjäger Anna Lee Fisher Selected anniversaries August 27: Independence Day in Moldova (1991) Destroyed buildings after the attack in the Anglo-Zanzibar War 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ended after three days. 1896 – In the shortest recorded war in history (pictured), the Sultanate of Zanzibar surrendered to the United Kingdom after less than an hour of conflict. 1955 – The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published. 1964 – South Vietnamese junta leader Nguyễn Khánh entered into a triumvirate power-sharing arrangement with rival generals Trần Thiện Khiêm and Dương Văn Minh, both of whom had been involved in plots to unseat Khánh. 2003 – The planet Mars made its closest approach to Earth in almost 60,000 years. Henry Edwards (b. 1827) Rufus Wilmot Griswold (d. 1857) Don Bradman (b. 1908) Ieva Simonaitytė (d. 1978) More anniversaries: August 26 August 27 August 28 In the news Kasia Niewiadoma In cycling, Katarzyna Niewiadoma (pictured) wins the Tour de France Femmes. Doctors strike and protests occur across India after the rape and murder of a female physician in Kolkata. Paetongtarn Shinawatra becomes Prime Minister of Thailand after Srettha Thavisin is dismissed by the Constitutional Court. The World Health Organization declares the mpox epidemic to be a global health emergency. Ongoing: Israel–Hamas war timeline Russian invasion of Ukraine timeline Sudanese civil war timeline Recent deaths: Sven-Göran Eriksson Atsuko Tanaka Afa Anoaʻi Sphen Mike Lynch Al Attles Did you know... Titiou Lecoq ... that Titiou Lecoq (pictured) only realized that "women did not rule the universe" after she left home? ... that Brandiose's design work for the Rocket City Trash Pandas helped the team sell $4 million in merchandise before it played its first game? ... that Tupou VI was crowned by D'Arcy Wood, an Australian, in order to respect the tradition of native Tongans not touching the king's head? ... that Aleister Crowley's 1941 manifesto controversially asserts a human right to commit tyrannicide? ... that Begüm Pusat, a 15-year-old Turkish wheelchair basketballer, was one of the youngest players at the 2019 Women's U25 World Championship? ... that by losing her constituency of South West Norfolk in 2024, Liz Truss became the first former UK prime minister since 1935 to lose their seat? ... that Carey Wright implemented literacy reforms that led to the "Mississippi Miracle"? ... that Upper Ivory Coast was created from the former French Upper Volta to facilitate the provision of forced plantation labour? ... that Quintus Quincy Quigley preferred Angles to a ring?

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