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September is Women of Achievement Month? This state was the first to grant women the right to vote and elected the first female Governor. Can you name the state and the Governor?
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In 1869, Wyoming’s territorial legislature declared that “every woman of the age of twenty-one years, residing in this territory, may at every election…cast her vote.” Though Congress lobbied hard against it, Wyoming’s women kept their right to vote when the territory became a state in 1890. In 1924, the state’s voters elected the nation’s first female governor, Nellie Tayloe Ross.
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Now that we know September is Women of Achievement Month, try to guess what ironic honorary week exists within the month of September?
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International Housekeepers Week. You just cannot make-up this stuff.
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It is also National Sewing Month in September. Put on your Dr. Suess thinking cap and try to think, and read this out loud, 'who sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's nose?'
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Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.
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Septembet 17th is Constitution Day. What is the size restriction that the US Constitution places on the House of Representatives?
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You may think it is 435 members, but that restriction was a law passed congress. The constitution only states their will be no more than one representative per 35,000 citizens. Today one representative represents around 750,000 citizens. Because congress has capped the members the number of House members, our vote becomes more and more diluted.
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College football is in full swing now and this is the last year the Big Ten has 11 teams. Nebraska will join the confernce in 2011. Only one university has left the Big Ten and not rejoined. Name that university.
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The University of Chicago was an initial member of the Big Ten when it was formed in 1896. It left the conference in 1946. Michigan left the conference in 1907, but rejoined in 1916.
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