"Sydney Opera Illuminates With The Works Of Gustav Klimt."

"Sydney Opera illuminates with the works of Gustav Klimt."

That’s 1920. Women voted in the election that November, which was a presidential election. (Unfortunately, Warren Harding won by a landslide.)

On August 26, 192: The 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution by proclamation of Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. #OnThisDay

"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."

Happy Birthday, William E. Gladstone (1809-1898)

Vera Elkan     Anti-fascist Internationalist Volunteer Dr Norman Bethune (center) Talking With Two Anti-fascist Spanish Soldiers, Madrid     Dec.1936

“Medicine, as we are practising it, is a luxury trade. We are selling bread at the price of jewels… Let us take the profit, the private economic profit, out of medicine, and purify our profession of rapacious individualism… Let us say to the people not ‘How much have you got?’ but 'How best can we serve you?” Norman Bethune