We all know that women's rights have been late to the party. State laws didn't start allowing us to control our own earnings until the mid-nineteenth century, and in many states, women couldn't manage their own property after they were married. Laws prohibited women from doing things that men took for granted (like smoking in public or using contraception) on the pretext of "protecting women's health." Divorce, extremely difficult to obtain, was fraught with social and financial peril ... VIEW POST
Gone but not Forgotten: San Francisco’s Amazing Sutro Baths
Has winter weather got you fantasizing about splashing about in a fun-sized pool? If you Google "largest swimming pools in the world," you'll find a list of mind-boggling, ultra-luxurious, man-made complexes that resemble lagoons more than pools. Most are outside and are used for water sports like rowing and kayaking, with only limited sections open for swimmers. Few of them, by the way, can be found in the United States. But the "granddaddy" of such acquatic complexes did exist in America, ... VIEW POST
The Baltics: A Primer in Three Parts (Part Three)
Part Three - Estonia: A Captive People Sings its Way to Freedom Estonia is the smallest of the Baltic countries. It’s about one third the size of New York but has less than seven percent of that state’s population—talk about wide open spaces! So why would such a small country in both size and population be of interest to any larger foreign power? The answer lies in one word (or is it three?): Location, location, location. Estonia sits on the Gulf of Finland and is in fact just a ... VIEW POST
The Baltics: A Primer in Three Parts (Part Two)
The other day I accompanied a gal pal and some of her friends (whom I didn’t know) to the movies. At one point my friend, referring to me, said, “She’s the only person I know who has been to Lithuania!”—to which one of the other women replied, incredulously, “Why would you go there?” I think that pretty much sums up what many Americans think about the Baltic States, but I’m here to tell you those countries are well worth visiting (for their beauty and culture) and studying (for their tragic ... VIEW POST
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