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I hate to break it to you.
Ave Maria. And by a country mile.
100 Most influential Women in History ๐ง
1. ๐ช๐ฌ Cleopatra
2. ๐ซ๐ท Joan of Arc
3. ๐ฌ๐ง Queen Elizabeth I
4. ๐ฌ๐ง Queen Victoria
5. ๐ฌ๐ง Queen Elizabeth II
6. ๐ซ๐ท Marie Curie
7. ๐ฌ๐ง Florence Nightingale
8. ๐บ๐ธ Rosa Parks
9. ๐บ๐ธ Harriet Tubman
10. ๐ฎ๐ณ Indira Gandhi
11. ๐ต๐ฐ Benazir Bhutto
12. ๐จ๐ณ Wu Zetian
13. ๐ฎ๐ณ Rani Lakshmibai
14. ๐ฎ๐ณ Mother Teresa
15. ๐ต๐ฐ Malala Yousafzai
16. ๐ฌ๐ง Margaret Thatcher
17. ๐ฉ๐ช Angela Merkel
18. ๐บ๐ธ Eleanor Roosevelt
19. ๐บ๐ธ Michelle Obama
20. ๐บ๐ธ Oprah Winfrey
21. ๐บ๐ธ Amelia Earhart
22. ๐ท๐บ Valentina Tereshkova
23. ๐บ๐ธ Sally Ride
24. ๐บ๐ธ Ruth Bader Ginsburg
25. ๐ฌ๐ง Mary Wollstonecraft
26. ๐ฌ๐ง Ada Lovelace
27. ๐บ๐ธ Katherine Johnson
28. ๐บ๐ธ Helen Keller
29. ๐บ๐ธ Susan B. Anthony
30. ๐ฌ๐ง Emmeline Pankhurst
31. ๐บ๐ธ Sojourner Truth
32. ๐บ๐ธ Gloria Steinem
33. ๐บ๐ธ Betty Friedan
34. ๐บ๐ธ Sandra Day OโConnor
35. ๐บ๐ธ Shirley Chisholm
36. ๐บ๐ธ Madeleine Albright
37. ๐ณ๐ฟ Jacinda Ardern
38. ๐ฎ๐ฑ Golda Meir
39. ๐ซ๐ท Simone de Beauvoir
40. ๐ซ๐ท Coco Chanel
41. ๐ฒ๐ฝ Frida Kahlo
42. ๐ฎ๐น Artemisia Gentileschi
43. ๐ฌ๐ง Jane Austen
44. ๐บ๐ธ Maya Angelou
45. ๐บ๐ธ Toni Morrison
46. ๐ฌ๐ง Virginia Woolf
47. ๐ฏ๐ต Murasaki Shikibu
48. ๐จ๐ณ Ban Zhao
49. ๐ช๐ฌ Hatshepsut
50. ๐ช๐ฌ Nefertiti
51. ๐ฌ๐ง Boudica
52. ๐ฌ๐ท Sappho
53. ๐ฌ๐ท Hypatia
54. ๐ช๐บ Catherine the Great
55. ๐ฎ๐น Catherine deโ Medici
56. ๐ช๐ธ Isabella I of Castile
57. ๐ต๐ฑ Irena Sendler
58. ๐บ๐ฆ Lesya Ukrainka
59. ๐ฉ๐ช Sophie Scholl
60. ๐ฐ๐ช Wangari Maathai
61. ๐ช๐น Empress Taytu Betul
62. ๐ฌ๐ง Mary Seacole
63. ๐บ๐ธ Rosalind Franklin
64. ๐บ๐ธ Grace Hopper
65. ๐บ๐ธ Elizabeth Blackwell
66. ๐บ๐ธ Nellie Bly
67. ๐บ๐ธ Madam C. J. Walker
68. ๐ฏ๐ต Queen Seondeok
69. ๐ต๐ญ Corazon Aquino
70. ๐ต๐ญ Gabriela Silang
71. ๐ฎ๐ท Shirin Ebadi
72. ๐ฎ๐ท Simin Behbahani
73. ๐ช๐ฌ Huda Shaโarawi
74. ๐ฒ๐ฝ Sor Juana Inรฉs de la Cruz
75. ๐ง๐ท Maria da Penha
76. ๐ธ๐ช Greta Thunberg
77. ๐บ๐ธ Katharine Graham
78. ๐บ๐ธ Billie Jean King
79. ๐บ๐ธ Emily Dickinson
80. ๐ฌ๐ง Anne Frank
81. ๐จ๐ณ Soong Ching-ling
82. ๐ฏ๐ต Sadako Sasaki
83. ๐จ๐ญ Helen Bamber
84. ๐ฌ๐ญ Yaa Asantewaa
85. ๐ฟ๐ฆ Winnie Mandela
86. ๐บ๐ธ Barbara Jordan
87. ๐จ๐ฆ Viola Desmond
88. ๐บ๐ธ Patsy Mink
89. ๐บ๐ธ Rachel Carson
90. ๐บ๐ธ Jane Goodall
91. ๐ณ๐ด Gro Harlem Brundtland
92. ๐น๐ท Halide Edib Adivar
93. ๐ง๐ฉ Begum Rokeya
94. ๐ฎ๐ณ Savitribai Phule
95. ๐ง๐ฆ Queen Katarina Kosaฤa
96. ๐ต๐น Amรกlia Rodrigues
97. ๐จ๐ณ Wu Yi
98. ๐ญ๐ฐ Anson Chan
99. ๐บ๐ธ Ida B. Wells
100. ๐ฎ๐ณ Sarojini Naidu
Source: Compiled from Britannica, TIME & BBC
That makes me so sad. I have a fantastic leather Dunlop golf bag that cost a fortune at the time. 40 years ago.
The other week a guy at @GolfVilladEste asked if I would sell it.
Thanks Greaves. Proper shop.
Honest question. All this starts with the Glazers getting in. Thatโs the cancer.
Can we ask who facilitated that? Became an ambassador for them, for fortunes?
Does anyone have that list? Is @GNev2 on it? If he is, he should sit this one out. @DerbyshirePhil @codney67
Top.
"At least I ******* ran!" ๐ก
An emotional @WayneRooney tears into the Man United players after another humiliating defeat.
Roger Mitchell retweeted
"The dollar rises against paper currencies because all men must pay their paper debts in paper. But the dollar falls against gold because no wise man will store his future in paper! When both rise together, look closely: it is the sound of the burning room shrinking."
#FreeGold
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I started subscribing to @TheEconomist in 1987, after the crash. 25 years maybe. Religious reader.
It went woke and dumb a while ago. But this woman is indeed killing it. Stone dead.
Iโve never been a fan of @TheEconomist but this woman who is editor in chief is doing irreparable damage to the brand
I was reading about the shambles of game 6 midday midweek game. The @WNBA is the worst run league in the world.
Then the product. Itโs horseshit. We need to stop sugarcoating it. The racism. Disrespecting the National anthem?
A disgrace.
@SantiagoAuFund @ttmygh @SamuelAgini
instagram.com/reel/De13H79ACโฆ
Nothing better than Catholic superiority put-downs.
โHe started my church โ๐๐๐๐
This is who is managing all the tax you pay. These people shouldnโt be in charge of the Christmas raffle. You feeling confident?
Itโs on all of you if you vote for these retards. Because they feel cuddly and nice. Nice But Dim.
@ttmygh @Raffadaisy @LucaMitchell200
I find it very ironic that two of the most respected sages in this era are Sly and Arnie.
Both have matured very well.
This got more engagement than I expected. So to clarify, I think Gaga is a top top artist. Hard worker. Great writer. I saw her do a live Paparazzi on UK breakfast tv at too-early-o-clock. Magnificent.
Iโm just asking what gave her all that, from the crap that is in this video.
Some humans are just special.
Every time a German Messerschmitt pilot wanted to escape a Spitfire on his tail, he did the same thing.
He pushed the nose down.
In a dive, the German engine kept running โ it used fuel injection. The British Spitfire's engine cut out. For one and a half seconds the Merlin went dead, the aircraft shuddered, and by the time it caught again the German was gone. Worse: if a German was behind a British pilot and the British pilot dove to escape, the German could follow and keep shooting while the British engine was silent.
Pilots were dying because of a carburetor.
The engineers at Farnborough knew about the problem. They were working on a long-term solution โ a redesigned carburetor that would take years to perfect and manufacture.
A woman named Beatrice Shilling fixed it with a washer.
She was born in Hampshire in 1909 and was the kind of child who spent her pocket money on Meccano sets and tools. At fourteen she bought her first motorbike. Her mother, with the inspired instinct of someone who understood what her daughter actually was, found the Women's Engineering Society and arranged an apprenticeship at an electrical firm.
She went to Manchester University โ one of the first two women ever to study engineering there โ graduated with a degree in electrical engineering, stayed another year for a master's in mechanical engineering, and in 1936 joined the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough as a scientific officer.
By the late 1930s she was one of the best carburetor engineers in Britain. She was also one of only three women to hold the British Motorcycle Racing Club's Gold Star โ awarded for lapping the Brooklands racing circuit at over 100 miles per hour on a motorcycle.
She had reportedly told her future husband, an engineer named George Naylor, that she wouldn't marry him until he earned his own Brooklands Gold Star first.
He earned it. They married in 1938.
The problem with the Merlin was specific and lethal. The SU carburetor used a float chamber to regulate fuel flow. Under negative g-forces โ the forces experienced in a sudden dive โ the fuel flooded to the top of the float chamber and starved the engine for 1.5 seconds. Just enough time for a German pilot to turn the tables entirely.
The RAF had known about this since the Battle of France. The formal solution โ a redesigned pressure carburetor โ was in development but wouldn't be ready for years.
Shilling was thirty-one years old, working in carburetor research, and she designed a fix in weeks.
A brass thimble with a precisely calibrated hole in the center โ later simplified to a flat washer โ fitted inline in the fuel line just before the carburetor. It restricted maximum fuel flow to just enough to prevent flooding without cutting off power. The key breakthrough: it could be fitted without taking the aircraft out of service. No downtime. No factory return.
The old guard at the RAE looked at it and called it a plumbing fix. They called her a plumber. The first batch of 5,000 units was made by a Birmingham firm that normally manufactured plumbing fixtures, which they found embarrassing.
The RAF pilots who flew Spitfires with Messerschmitts on their tails called it something else.
They called it Miss Shilling's Orifice. With deep affection.
By March 1941 she had organized a small team and was personally touring RAF fighter stations across England โ traveling between bases on her old racing motorcycle โ fitting the device to every Merlin engine they could reach. Squadron leaders all over the country were demanding installations. The word spread faster than the official channels could keep up with.
The Germans noticed. They couldn't explain why British fighter pilots had suddenly started following them into dives. They were baffled by the new aggression. They didn't know about the washer.
The restrictor remained in use until 1943, when the full pressure carburetor finally arrived. It had kept British pilots alive for two years in the middle of the war they couldn't afford to lose.
After the war she worked on the Blue Streak missile. She studied what wet runways do to braking distances. She helped design a bobsled for the RAF Olympic team. In 1967 she solved overheating problems on an Eagle Mk1 Formula 1 car.
She never received a top promotion at the RAE. Such positions, she was told, were for men.
She received an OBE in 1949. The citation said "services to aviation." It did not mention the washer.
She retired from the RAE in 1969. She kept racing motorcycles and sports cars. She modified and tuned both in her home workshop until she couldn't anymore.
She died on November 18, 1990. She was 81.
The Battle of Britain is one of the most documented events in British military history. Hundreds of books. Dozens of films. Memoirs by the pilots who flew in it. Almost none of them mention the carburetor problem. Almost none of them mention her.
The pilots who benefited most never knew her name. They just knew that when they pushed the nose down, the engine kept running.
My father had a great spidey sense for the character of people. Seldom wrong.
Iโm not in his class, but I donโt need to be to know that this guy is so so not the โright stuffโ.
At best a lightweight opportunist. At worst a bad man.
@ttmygh
bbc.com/sport/football/articโฆ
โYoure too pleased with quadruple trebles. The club is regressing and youโve got the champagne out. Domestic trophies are meaninglessโ.
Now mainstream. They all get there in the end.
Celtic by now isnโt a club, itโs just a Balance Sheet.






















