Make It in Denim by Hazel Todhunter was published at the beginning of November, 1977.
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American publication Newsweek declares Italian leader Benito Mussolini the “Key Man of the Mediterranean” on the 13th of May, 1940. Fascist Italy sided with Hitler in the Second World War.
On this day: Spinsters Are Wonderful People
On the 10th of May, 1958, the Australian Catholic Truth Society released a pamphlet titled: Spinsters Are Wonderful People: In Praise of Unmarried Women.
It seems this pamphlet may have been produced a number of times, as a version dated 1950 can be read HERE.
An excerpt:
THE CHURCH MAKES A CHANGE
Whatever literature may say about spinsters, and however much history may ignore them – except for outstanding spinsters like Elizabeth of England – the Church’s attitude toward unmarried women has been, from the first, one of reverence. This I came to know when my faith emerged from mere youthful practice to intelligent study and appreciation. Among the Jews a spinster was merely an unfortunate girl not lucky enough to have won a husband for herself. Among the pagans she was usually the slave or bondmaiden, the grudgingly tolerated hanger-on in the house of her parents or her luckier married sisters.
With St. Paul all that was changed. He loved virginity, and he turned to the ministrations and loyalty – as many a parish has done since – of the splendid young and older unmarried women of his time. The legends of St. Paul and St. Tecla – whose name was the Greek word for pearl – are many and beautiful. Phoebe, to whom Paul sends affectionate messages, seems to have been one of the first consecrated Catholic virgins.
On this day: the Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon was first made available on the 26th of March, 1830.
Below is a page from the original version. X
On this day: Literature censorship in the United States
On the 19th of February, 1953, the United States’ first literature censorship board was established in Georgia.
Misleadingly named the Georgia Literature Commission, the first publication targeted was God’s Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell.
Facing legal challenges from the outset, the board lasted about two decades and then was left to die out.
On this day: the first edition of Berlingske
Berlingske, Denmark’s oldest still-running newspaper, was first published on the 3rd of January, 1749.
Front of the first edition.
Originally named Kjøbenhavnske Danske Post-Tidender, the paper was founded by Ernst Henrich Berling and is conservative-leaning.
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