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Anthony, Susan Brownell, 1820–1906, American reformer and leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Adams, Mass. daughter of Daniel Anthony, Quaker abolitionist. From the age of 17, when she was a teacher in rural New York state, she agitated for equal pay for women teachers, for coeducation, and
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2 arrested for trying to smuggle drugs worth R10 million into SA from Mozambique
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Olympia, Washington activists at George Floyd protest chant ‘All cops are bastards!’
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Florida State Attorney to Re-Examine Case of Man Who Punched 14-Year Old Black Girl in the Face
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Newswire : On the run, Rwanda genocide suspect, Felicien Kabuga, arrested in French hideout
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