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Womens sufferage movement
The women's suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100 years to win that right, and the campaign was not easy: Disagreements over strategy threatened to cripple the movement more than once -
Victorians and death
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Death is everywhere
- in London in 1830 the average life span for middle to upper class males was 44 yrs 25 for tradesman and 22 for laborers
- Fifty seven of every 100 children in working class families weee dead by five years of age
- Deaths was a common domestic fact of life for Victorians
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Robert koch
Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera, and anthrax, he is regarded as one of the main founders of modern bacteriology -
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Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst was an English political activist. She is best remembered for organizing the UK suffragette movement and helping women win the right to vote -
Reform act
Reform Act 1884 (also called the "Third Reform Act"), which allowed people in counties to vote on the same basis as those in towns. Home ownership was the only qualification. ... Reform Act 1928 (also called the "Fifth Reform Act"), which widened suffrage by giving women electoral equality with men.