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...Free State was the first province to issue them for women to establish tighter controls over domestic service employment. In 1913, a mass meeting of women in Bloemfontein decided refuse to carry their passes any longer, tearing and burning them. One of the organisers was Charlotte Maxeke. Charlotte Makgomo Manye was born in 1874 and received a missionary education. She...

...course offers an introduction to the study of religions, and in particular to six major religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism, including the various roles of their founders and leaders, their texts, rituals, practices and behaviors. This practical insight will enable you to develop a better understanding of different beliefs and...

...courses, or burnished the golden corn-ricks clustered near the long roofs of some midland homestead, he saw the full-uddered cows driven from their pasture to the early milking. Perhaps it was the shepherd, head-servant of the farm, who drove them, his sheep-dog following with a heedless, unofficial air, as of a beadle in undress. The shepherd, with a slow and slouching...

...course, from coal tar. Although the structure of anthracene itself was not known at the time, a starting material for the laboratory synthesis of alizarin was now available. In June 1869, Perkin and the German dye company, BASF, filed patents for the same synthetic route to alizarin just one day apart. As a result, the industry producing the natural dye was killed off...