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The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization. It was among the first organizations of women devoted to social reform with a program that "linked the religious and the secular through concerted and far-reaching reform strategies based on applied Christianity."
In 2005, the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was awarded jointly to Reporters without Borders, Nigerian human rights lawyer Huawa Ibrahim, and the Ladies in White.Five of the leaders of the movement were selected to receive the prize: Laura Pollán, whose husband Hector Maseda is serving a 20-year sentence; Miriam Leiva, whose husband Oscar Espinosa Chepe has been conditionally released ...
The association was created after the honorary admission of María Isidra Quintana de Guzmán y de la Cerda and María Josefa Alfonso Pimentel y Tellez-Girón to the Real Sociedad Económica Matritense. After a public debate over the admittance of women, the Junta de Damas was created to be a separate section of the society to provide a public ...
The painting is alternately known as The Christian Virgins Exposed to the Rabble, [1] Jovenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho (Christian Maidens Exposed to the Populace), [3] Christian Virgins Presented to the Populace, [4] [5] The Christian Virgins Being Exposed to the Populace, [6] and Christian Virgins Exposed to the Mob.
Arturo Rivera y Damas (30 September 1923 – 26 November 1994) was the ninth Bishop and fifth Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador. Msgr. Rivera's term as archbishop (1983–1994) coincided with the Salvadoran Civil War. He was the immediate successor of Archbishop Óscar Romero. During Romero's archbishopric (1977–1980), Rivera was Romero ...
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Las Damas Romanas (literally, "The Roman Dames"), also known as The Roman Maidens, The Roman Women, [1] or The Roman Ladies, [2] [3] is an oil on canvas painted in the style of Neo-Classicism by Juan Luna, one of the most famous Filipino painters of the Spanish period in the Philippines. [4]
Damas Gratis (Spanish for "Ladies for Free") is an Argentine cumbia villera band started by keyboardist and singer, Pablo Lescano in 2000. They are one of the most influential bands in Argentina and well-known in all of Latin America .