It is hard to separate the topic of AW
's travel from that of her activism, since most her travelling is undertaken to further specific causes. In 2003 she was arrested for protesting against the...
Timeline
1 June 1980: CNN, the world's first 24-hour television...
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1 June 1980
CNN
, the world's first 24-hour television news channel, was launched in the USA. It went on to change the style of news reporting worldwide.
“Some Defining Moments of CNN’s First 25 Years”. CNN.com, 19 June 2005.
11 September 2001: An orchestrated attack against the USA used...
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11 September 2001
An orchestrated attack against the USA used hijacked commercial airlines to fly into and destroy the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, as well as damaging the Pentagon.
Stackhouse, John. “A Day of Infamy”. The Globe and Mail, 12 Sept. 2001, p. A1, A13.
A1, A13
Zimmerman, Laura. “Where are the women?”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
