Today in 1955, Matilde Mallet née de Obarrio hosted a luncheon in her home, Curry Mallet Manor.
Born in 1872 in Guayaquil, #Ecuador, to Panamanian parents, Matilde grew up in Ecuador, the USA and Panama.
In 1917, she founded the #Panama#RedCross.
#Somerset#history
It's not refugees in the Epstein Files.
It's not assylum seekers in the Epstein Files
It's not Trans people in the Epstein Files.
It's rich white men, the billionaires and the politicians.
It's the very ones telling you to fear refugees, assylum seekers and trans people.
Roj is a desolate camp housing thousands of women and children in northeastern Syria. Of the roughly 2,300 camp residents, an estimated 1,400 are children. The residents suspected of crimes need to be investigated and prosecuted; however, many residents, particularly the children, are victims of brutal circumstances.
Read more from Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau, the Bradford M. Freeman Managing Director of Global Policy at the Bush Institute, on how the U.S. needs to lead in dissolving these camps, which are often incubators for the next generation of extremism: https://t.co/NhMyXvkTiA
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Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
Do not stop talking about the Epstein Files!
“The situation is catastrophic at night"
Women in al-Roj camp, which remains in the hands of the SDF, told MEE that women and children had suffered mistreatment, including beatings, during nightly raids by security forces
https://t.co/a7l63vs4yC
🎉On This Day in #Somerset: A Calendar of Women is released today! 🎊
It's got...
🔱 Roman goddesses
🗳 Courageous suffragettes
🌍 African royalty
🧙♀️ Witches
👷♀️ Trailblazers
... and much much more!
#book#Somersethistory#historybook#womeninhistory
🎉 Just hit a milestone: 700 books sold! 📚✨
Thank you SO much to everyone who’s supported my writing journey, every single purchase means the world to me. Here’s to many more history adventures! 💖
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Happy Read A Book Day! What are you reading today?
Slide 2: my current reads (I always have several on the go!)
Slide 3: a collection of the books I've written
#readabookday#books#bookstagram#readabook
Hope you're enjoying the summer (or winter)!
These could make a great holiday read for you and/or the kids in your lives.
Epic journeys through hundreds of years of #SouthAmerican legends, history, culture and even football.
Head to https://t.co/wFIKKMLy3C
#kidslit#kidsbooks
For what it's worth, I'm adding this to the copyright page of my books from now on:
No portion of this work may be used for training artificial intelligence without written permission from the author.
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