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mxOGo TIL Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the most politically active women of the 20th Century. She campaigned civil rights in the early 1930’s, regularly spoke on behalf of her husband and pressed the US to join the United Nations. She eventually remodeled the meaning of ‘First Lady’.
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v1KPK TIL London's "Continuum Magazine," which for years promoted the idea that HIV was a social construct created to stigmatize gays, shut down after all its editors died of AIDS.