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Kuwaiti Women Secure the Vote

Kuwaiti women win the right to vote, and women on the front line in World War One; battling smog in Mexico, America's first incident of Islamic terror, and artist Georgia O'Keeffe

Women in Kuwait win the right to vote, and the only women on the front line on the Western Front in World War One; battling smog in Mexico City in the 1980s, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and America's first incident of Islamic terror forty years ago.

Photo: the first women candidates for parliamentary elections in Kuwait in 2006, Aisha al-Rashid (R) and Rola Dashti (C)
(Credit: Yasser al-Zayya/AFP/Getty Images)

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