I’m so proud of the work the @ObamaFoundation’s Girls Opportunity Alliance is doing to ensure that girls around the world can get an education. Learn more about the grassroots organizations we’re supporting on this International Day of the Girl.
I suddenly remembered other moments of time spent in this landscape, time printed upon silence with all its real colours up, these separate moments, quite loose, not stitched together except by their parentage in the same quality of feeling. . . .
— Lawrence Durrell
Corfu
A devoted Missionary, Archbishop Anastas Janullatos stayed, to rest eternally amidst the Albanian orthodox community, to keep nurturing their faith, as he did whole heartedly for a long period of his life. Blessed be his Memory!🙏❤️
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678
He was an Italian 🇮🇹 composer and violinist, celebrated as one of the most virtuosic violinists of his time and a true master of Baroque music
This is his Winter, from The Four Seasons
Simply breathtaking 🎻
https://t.co/RbQtIhofP7
555 years ago today Erasmus was born.
You've probably heard his name before — but who was Erasmus and why does he matter?
This is the story of history's greatest educator...
I voted by mail – it was easy and a great excuse to say hi to some neighbors. If you're voting by mail like me, get your ballot in the mail right away. No matter how you vote, make sure you have a plan and get it done: https://t.co/V3uLF7Ypg1
E pakrahasueshme ndjesia ngazëlluese kur merrnim në dorë librin tuaj më të fundit dhe kërshëria përvëluese për të zbuluar atë çka fshihej nën rreshta...
"Ca pika shiu ranë mbi qelq, për ty unë befas ndjeva mall, jetojmë të dy në një qytet dhe rrallë shihemi sa rrallë..." Lamtumirë i madhi Kadare! Me Ju mbyllet një Epokë e bukur e letërsisë të realizmit socialist dhe viteve menjeherë pas saj.
In ancient Greece, women were forbidden to study medicine for several years until someone broke the law. Born in 300 BC, Agnodice cut her hair and entered Alexandria medical school dressed as a man. While walking the streets of Athens after completing her medical education, she heard the cries of a woman in labour. However, the woman did not want Agnodice to touch her although she was in severe pain, because she thought Agnodice was a man. Agnodice proved that she was a woman by removing her clothes without anyone seeing and helped the woman deliver her baby.
The story would soon spread among the women and all the women who were sick began to go to Agnodice. The male doctors grew envious and accused Agnodice, whom they thought was male, of seducing female patients. At her trial, Agnodice, stood before the court and proved that she was a woman but this time, she was sentenced to death for studying medicine and practicing medicine as a woman.
Women revolted at the sentence, especially the wives of the judges who had given the death penalty. Some said that if Agnodice was killed, they would go to their deaths with her. Unable to withstand the pressures of their wives and other women, the judges lifted Agnodice's sentence, and from then on, women were allowed to practice medicine, provided they only looked after women.
Thus, Agnodice made her mark in history as the first Greek female doctor, physician and gynecologist. This plaque depicting Agnodice at work was excavated at Ostia, Italy.
#drthehistories
Në 📍 Kombinat po punojmë me kapacitet të plotë për të ndërtuar pallatet 🏢 që do të strehohen familjet e prekura 🧑🧑🧒🧒 nga tërmeti.
E kemi treguar se kur lejohemi të punojmë nga partitë që s’kanë bërë asnjë punë, bëjmë gjëra të mrekullueshme. 💪🏻😊
March 9, 432 BC: The Parthenon was finished after 15 years under Pericles' leadership, and stands atop the Acropolis overlooking Athens. The magnificent temple was built in dedication to the goddess Athena.