| 12-22 TABLE of CONTENTS:
The Symbol of Soviet Resistance
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Molly Ivins.
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Event, December 1941: the German army captured
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, a Soviet partisan. Rape, torture, and mutilation
could not break her, so they hanged her in public and left her half-naked
body on display as an "example" to others. She became the symbol
of Soviet resistance to Nazi occupation. German generals noted that Soviet
battle resolve hardened soon afterwards.
| PRIOR DATE |
| HOME |
| WOA INDEX |
| NEXT DATE |
| RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
|
12-22 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-22-1789, Ann Hasseltine Judson, eulogized
by a number of poets and novelists, she
was the first wife of noted missionary Adoniram Judson, and the first American
woman to become a foreign missionary. Her noted husband's conversion to
the Baptist faith left them destitute in India when their Congregationalist
sponsors withdrew financial support. She also converted and went with him
to Burma, living in great poverty where she ministered and preached to
Burmese women while he wrote a Burmese New Testament. She returned once
to the United States for health reasons but returned to Burma within two
years.
During the Burmese war
with Britain, Judson was imprisoned and Ann lost her health permanently
while caring for her infant daughter, an adopted Burmese girl, and nursing
her husband in prison at incredible peril and poverty. She died shortly
after his release.
B. 12-22-1802, Sara Coleridge, English translator.
A talented poet in her own right but she is always referred to as the editor
of the works of her father, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
B. 12-22-1853, Maria Teresa Carreno, Venezuelan
pianist, composer, singer. Debuted in
the U.S. at nine, toured Europe 1865-75. MTC was known for her great technical
virtuosity and dramatic intensity.
B. 12-22-1912, Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson,
better known as Lady Bird, held a journalism
degree, helped her husband Lyndon Johnson every inch of the way to prominence
in the U.S. Senate and later as an effective president. CATJ was an extremely
capable businesswoman, and took an active role in public affairs.
B. 12-22-1926, Deborah Partridge Wolfe, chief
of education (1951), House of Representatives
Committee on Education and Labor.
| PRIOR DATE |
| HOME |
| WOA INDEX |
| NEXT DATE |
| RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
|
QUOTES DU JOUR
IVINS, MOLLY:
"Also
a bit beyond my ken is the furor over women in combat. Of course there
has to be a single standard of physical ability for soldiers; by one estimate,
95 percent of women don't have the upper body strength to lug mortars around.
Fine, so admit the 5 percent who do.
"Look at it this way: a woman with that much
upper body strength can deck anyone who sexually harasses her."
-- Molly Ivins, syndicated columnis, columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
| PRIOR DATE |
| HOME |
| WOA INDEX |
| NEXT DATE |
| RETURN TO TOP OF PAGE
|
|
