FACEBOOK, April 22 Answer of the Day Really? Barbie is a feminist icon? Can you believe it? Today is Take our Daughters and Sons to Work® Day in the US, and one of the partnering sponsors is Barbie®. As the Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work website explains, For 120 careers and counting, Barbie® doll has proved there isnt anything a girl cant conquer or discover or become. There you have it. The day was originally founded in 1993 by Gloria Steinem and the Ms. Foundation for Women as Take Our Daughters to Work Day, to give girls the opportunity to experience the workplace, to give them an educational experience outside the classroom and to help them envision a different kind of future. Ten years later, boys were welcomed into the program. This years theme is 1 Youth, 1 Dream, 2Morrows Leader. Quote If the school sends out children with a desire for knowledge and some idea of how to acquire and use it, it will have done its work. — Richard Livingstone Word of the day (© ) Holiday Earth Day Todays History Pedro Alvares Cabral: landed on the coast of Brazil, claiming the land for Portugal (1500) Henry VIII: much-married king of England ascended to the throne (1509) In God We Trust: US Congress mandated that all minted coins bear this inscription (1864) Oklahoma Land Rush: began officially at noon with thousands of homesteaders staking their claims (1889) Earth Day: first observed (1970) Todays Birthdays Isabella I (1451-1504): queen who sponsored Christopher Columbus voyage to the New World; also, world leader Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924) Henry Fielding (1707-1754): novelist playwright, Tom Jones; plus, authors Germaine de Staël (1766-1817), Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) and Janet Evanovich (67) Immanuel Kant (1724-1804): German philosopher of the Enlightenment J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967): physicist who headed the Manhattan Project John Waters (64): offbeat film director, Hairspray Peter Frampton (60): rock musician, Fingerprints; also, musicians Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999), Charles Mingus (1922-1979) and Glen Campbell (74) Jeffrey Dean Morgan (44): actor, Greys Anatomy, Weeds; also, actors Charlotte Rae (84), Jack Nicholson (73), Ryan Stiles (51), Sherri Shepherd (43), and Ingo Rademacher and Eric Mabius (both 39) Read more: answers/topic/thursday-april-22-2010-from-today-s-highlights-archive#ixzz2zcan3Gjw
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