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Today (November 3) marks 45 years since Dominica adopted its flag. It is the only national flag using the color purple outside a coat of arms. (El Salvador and Nicaragua have purple in their CoA). (upload.wikimedia.org)

(Since you almost need a magnifying glass to see the small purple fields in the rainbows of the flags of El Salvador and Nicaragua, I think they barely count.)...

230th anniversary of death of Olympe de Gouges, pioneer of feminism (upload.wikimedia.org)

Olympe de Gouges was a very early French feminist who was active during the French Revolution and was killed by Robbespierre during his reign of terror. She was particularly noteworthy because her activism could be regarded as an early form of intersectional feminism, because she fought not only for the rights of women, but also...

Larger-scale warfare may have occurred in Europe 1,000 years earlier than previously thought (phys.org)

A re-analysis of more than 300 sets of 5,000-year-old skeletal remains excavated from a site in Spain suggests that many of the individuals may have been casualties of the earliest period of warfare in Europe, occurring over 1,000 years before the previous earliest known larger-scale conflict in the region....

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