More learn'n

Do you know who the Iron-Jawed Angels were?
How about the first east coast state to allow women to vote?
Do you know all the Beatles names and albums? (High school students don't.)
Ever heard of the Oregon newspaper The New Northwest? It was edited by a woman named Abigail Scott Dunniway who was a suffragist. Her brother started the Oregonian...he was opposed to women suffrage and made it known in his paper.
By the way, why the term suffrage? Anyone???

What's the difference

What's a pandemic verses an epidemic? Easy maybe for those of you who remember your prefixes. Pan relating to "world" and epi relating to "cover"...but what does that mean regarding these two words? All important now that the swine flu, according to the media, is called a pandemic and is going to kill us all. Apparently an epidemic is relating to a specific region whereas a pandemic is worldwide. So, in my book, that means people should stop calling AIDS an epidemic. Right?

Mark Twain on Women Voting

From a letter to the St. Louis Missouri Democrat, March 1867

"I think I could write a pretty strong arguement in favor of female sufrage, but I do not want to do it. I never want to see the women voting, and gabbling about politics, and electioneering. There is something revolting about the thought. It would shock me inexpressibly for an angel to come down from above and ask me to take a drink with him (though I should doubtless consent); but it would shock me still more to see one of our blessed earthly angels peddling election tickets among a mob of shabby scoundrels she never saw before."

I wonder what his thoughts would be now...