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Emancipation

Clippity Cloppity Emily Davison confronted race horses losing her life dissident suffragette indiscriminately committed sabotage chaos and strife Hickory Dickory Leonora Cohen hunger strike ends with the cat and mouse ploy campaigning for justice legitimisation Scapegrace to magistrate ending in joy 1 / 28 / 2021. During the 1913 Epsom Derby, Emily Davison threw herself under King George V horse Anmer. Dying from her injuries 4 days later. Leonora Cohen in 1913 vandalised a display case containing the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. Defending herself, she was released on a technicality. After another act of vandalism, she went on hunger strike while in prison, but was released early. This was due to Lord Asquith's cat and mouse act. Giving prisoners time to recover, preventing needless deaths while incarcerated. Leonora was trampled on by a mounted police horse, during one protest march. She died aged 105 , serving as magistrate for 25 years and receiving the O.B.E. incidently she was born in the city of Leeds, where I too was born and bred.

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Date: 3/5/2021 7:00:00 AM
Nice one George! Congratulations on the win! Linda
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Date: 3/5/2021 3:08:00 AM
My heartfelt appreciation for your participation and you have my compliments on your 3rd Place win. I will post your 1-Year Membership on 2021 March 9th, lest during the interim, I receive your soupmail instructing me to do otherwise. Aloha my friend!
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