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Back in 1788, when the Finns were helping Sweden to fight the Russians, a Finnish woman named Lotta Svärd went to war along with her husband, and, after he was killed, stayed with the Army, cooking for the soldiers and nursing the wounded. What made Lotta a two-time Molly Pitcher was the fact that in 1808, when Russia overran Finland, she volunteered again and served throughout...
...Finland organized a women's auxiliary corps and named it for Lotta Svärd. Finland's tough and brawny Lottas, 100,000 strong, not only nurse and cook. In wartime they take the places of the mobilized Civic Guardists in fire and police departments. They staff the hun dreds of air and naval observation posts, keep sharp watch for raids...
...about the time of Edda's birth Mussolini's journalistic fortunes were changing. Having made a success in Forli with his own paper La Lotta di Classe (The Class Fight), he became editor of Avanti!, Italy's leading Socialist journal. Edda was scarcely able to walk when Papa Benito, loudly opposing the "imperialist" Italian-Turkish War over Libya, spent six months in jail for "resisting" public authorities, and general anti-war violence. Soon afterward he founded Il Popolo d'ltalia, at Milan, still the Mussolini family paper, and changed his anti-war tune to an aggressive...
Among the church's oddities: a font made of a broomstick and a bread bowl; a stained-glass window of dust from precious stones; a window offered to another church by Lotta Crabtree, and refused because she was an actress...
...earthquake) with its ruins & ashes, then of "the almost childish delight of a people who have a continental love for artistic pursuits." In his scherzo he quoted from Cara Nome, harking back to the Christmas Eve in 1910 when Luisa Tetrazzini sang it on the square by Lotta's Fountain. In the finale he loudly attempted to glorify modern engineering, the skyscrapers and the great new bridge over San Francisco...