I saw Hale - Bop in Australia, where I live in 1997 I sat in our sprawling yard as it was a sheep station and watched it float in the horizon. Its tail was utterly magnificent. We had set up chairs and cold beverages to hydrate our open mouths. I also took a few flying lessons and one I remember being over Melbourne from Essendon airport. I didn't land it as I was a beginner but the take off was all entrusted into my shaky but exhilarated hands. I've tandem jumped out of one too. Hungover on my last day holidaying in Dunk Island. I landed on the soft beach in an exceedingly sober frame of mind. I love flying or anything to do with flying and Im not surprised given my totem (Im an Indigenous Australian) is the Wedge Tail Eagle. Just a bit of my trivia the first Indigenous Female to get her commercial pilots licence was Virginia Wykes in 1982. Love your videos and your wit, intelligence and compassion. Keep them coming as I look forward to them each week. : )
Love the tropical shirt! Also, I saw Hale-Bopp with the naked eye when I lived in Boston during the 1990s. Lastly, my several times great grandmother graduated from Hollins College in Virginia in the early 1850s, winning the prize for French. I still have the French language bible with which she was presented.
Brilliant. I hold out as long as I can to enjoy all the more; deferred gratification: it's a dying art! Husband at work, mother sorted, my time with Sandi and Debbie; priceless! :))))))
Partner at work ✅ Children at work ✅ Cat dropped out the back door ✅ Cuppa and a scone with jam and Cornish Clotted Cream ✅ And... “Ahhhhh” it’s Friday. 🥳 Sandi, THANK YOU a million times thank you xx
Loved the ending, it was 😂😂. Still not an easy occupation to get into here in the UK for females. I do believe that the UK have the title of having the youngest female commercial captain in the world. I only know this because for years, my 14 year old granddaughter has said that she wants to be a pilot, and she told me about Captain Kate.
Thank you for the sanity and delight you bring to us all in lock down. And with such insights and histories of brave and wondrous women all delivered with wit. It's going to be while before any of us can fly again, and being over in Thailand and all my siblings and my mother in the UK I will at some point need to go there again,. So thanks again for helping us while away the hours
RIP Bessie....simply inspiring! Does anyone else out there wish that our wonderful Ms Toksvig would collate and transfer every single one of these broadcasts into book form - a pandemic plethora of sorts. Come on Sandi, get your publisher interested...PLEASE?!
I hope you continue with VOX long after the pandemic. Just wonderful to list to you and learn a lot about some great women. You are in the same category. Jane, Philadelphia
Friday mornings I wake up and check youtube so I can start my day with VT and my coffee and learn something interesting, have a gentle laugh, see her kind intelligent eyes and see them light up when she looks at her lovely bride. Sandi and Debbie make this time so much better. I am grateful for their efforts.
Ah Sandi, you are a breath of clean fresh air. Thank you for a so eloquently presenting a selection of uplifting examples of human achievement. You are also very funny. 😉
Missed you and your history. I love it that the french gave her what her own country wouldn't France seems to have done that for a lot of women in history.
Today's chat reminded me of the very enjoyable film "The Aeronauts" - I liked it, anyway - with the great Felicity Jones as just such a daredevil ballooning ladyperson as Sandi describes. Eddie Redmayne's in it too.
You might want to check out "The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and her Famous Brothers." It tells the story of her support of her brothers. I have very much enjoyed "VOX TOX," and shared the links with my nieces.
Liz Davis Mozart did too! Oh well And then there were those magnificent women who flew unarmed planes in WWII, ferrying them from point A to point B, for the further pleasure of their male counterparts. Difficult to find out about them, they seem to be a grubby secret. Can’t have the girls outdoing/doing as well as the Men now, can we
@@jandrews6254 If you're interested, the BBC documentary was Spitfire Women. They repeated it recently, so if you can access the BBC I Player and want to see it, it's still available for about a week. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tw1m1/spitfire-women
The new Sydney airport, to replace the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith airport, will be called the Nancy Bird Walton airport. You may be interested in her story. Thx Sandi
Thank you for making these videos. I just love to listen to historical information and your comedic take is brilliant! You have given me a new reason to look forward to Friday!
Thanks Sandy and family, your posts are a sanctuary in the pandemic and youtube idiocy. As a feminist the focus on women is appreciated and added to my knowledge of our achievements
He had a cameo on QI. th-cam.com/video/dGcOdkWhgho/w-d-xo.html I fall asleep to an old QI episode every night so I know them all pretty much word by word. Not as "stalky" as it might first appear. :)
A great New Zealand woman flier, Jean Batton made the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936. She had such an amazing life making and breaking many flying records. Sadly, she died from a dog bite and alone. Please, 'check her out' and discover her, as well as all these other fabulous women.
1590 views, 159 likes and then ME!!!!!!!! I'm like number 160. and comment number 37. Thank You Sandi and crew for putting these up. Enjoyable is a soft word for this experience. Intellectually Stimulating gets close...BRain Candy from the sweetest lady you can imagine.
Dear Sandy I had no idea who you were until I begin watching Qi on TH-cam. I'm truly enjoying these pieces now. I'm a retired engineer here in Texas, I had heard of Bessie before. Until this episode I never realized she come from very near my hometown. I'm from Corsicana, Texas, a in hour south of Dallas. waxahachie is about half way in between. I'm proud to know that someone who represents so much history is from there. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings to you and your loved ones, and thanks making the lock down pass more easily. Not to be pedantic but it's pronounced (wac sa hatch ie), an Indian word. I'm to old to be PC and use another national description. I also really like your Apollo 11 story. I'm working on a painting about Apollo 11, more of a off beat social commentary on the selfie culture. If you wish I can send a link when I finish. Thanks & good evening. Scott.
I regret to inform you that you featured prominently in a dream I had last night. Nothing inappropriate as far as I can recall and as you are the first of the female species to appear in a remembered dream for a long while, I doubt anything inappropriate did occur. We were in my bathroom but fully clothed and wondering why the blue dye from my jumper was running down the bathroom wall and why dog hair from my previous day's washing of the dog were still plastered over the wall. Welcome to my subconscious Sandy, pleased to have you aboard.
Oh wow, that was stupendous! Although so very unjust just how many extraordinary people, and women in particular have been virtually written out of the history books, I find it exhilarating each week as you send me a Googling like a cybernetic bloodhound in search of yet more to each titbit you dangle before me. As a lover of flying too, this week had me agog. However, as an eco warrior (albeit way too late in the game), it also helped give me a little reminder of what I missed the most - yep, the gourmet nuts and a wee drinkypoo!! ... Thanks for the wonderful guffaw that elicited 😆 Hmm, wonder if I have a stale bag in the back of my kitchen cupboard... See you next week. Only one suggestion comes to mind - can you at least try not to wear such dull clobber? 🤪✌🏻 Stay safe, I need the sanity!!
Debbie is appalled by my clothes. I call it Lockdown liberation. I have zero interest in fashion and dress for comfort, I'm afraid. Normal clothing service will resume when I'm back in the TV studio and someone else is choosing.
The Wright brothers had a sister who took care of them and nursed them back to health. She was a teacher. When late in life she wanted to get married her brother got upset because she wouldn't be taking care of him after that. They also had a brother, Lorin who gave the brothers a niece and nephew . David McCullen wrote a biography of the Wright Brothers but my favorite is James Tobin's To Conquer the Air. I bet you would like both books. You would learn what an amazing woman Kate Wright was. I love your show. I am from Michigan.
I've been loving the relaxed and informative Vox Tox videos every time they are uploaded. For once, I have something to add myself. The Wright Brothers understood patents very well, but they were not the pioneers responsible for mastering the technical aspects of flying. That title belongs to Glenn Curtiss. He made engines for airplanes as early as 1904, but the Wright Brothers pushed him out of history almost entirely by claiming that he violated their patent that they made in 1906...
Lovely episode! I read that there were female pilots during WOII that flew newly built planes to the various bases, WHILE reading their manual for the first time.
Congratulations on a fantastic installment. I've learnt so much - what an astonishing set of people to go find out more about. You'll always be Ethel Davis to me.
I'm really surprised that you didn't mention the Speed Queen, Jacqueline Cochran. She won the Bendix. She was the first woman to break the sound barrier. She headed the Women Air Force Service Pilots. By her death, no other pilot - male or female- held more records for speed, distance or altitude in aviation history. She was a life-long friend of Chuck Yeager who was a great supporter of hers. She was also awarded several honors for her military service. Her story is even more amazing when you consider that she came from a poor family in the panhandle of Florida.
Forgive me for being *that* person but... It isn't Haley's comet (with a long a sound), but Halley's comet (i.e., with a short a sound). People often mispronounce it because of the band Bill Haley and the Comets
During the lock down I have been looking into the lives of great Canadian women. So I was a bit disappointed when you did not mention Kathleen "Kit" Coleman. Died May 16 1915. Born in Ireland came to Canada and to make extra money writing for a Toronto news paper. Soon she had her own "Woman's Column" but feeling that woman wanted more than just knitting and child rearing she began to add politics and science. She became the first accredited female war correspondent in the world. She covered the Diamond Jubilee, and the Worlds Fair. And when she asked the paper for a 5 dollar a week raise to be equal with male reporters and they said no. She quit. Hopefully it will be over, but if not. Viola Desmond end of July 1965. she's on or ten dollar bill. Dr. Lucille Teasdale, August 1 1996. She just might be the bravest person that you've never heard of. Stay safe.
Sandi, I would love to offer my help in doing this for you...if you need an extra body, then I am a free resource for you! That said, I have attached a useful TH-cam video for you. Seems you can download the closed captioning that TH-cam generates and correct it. It looks VERY straight forward. I hope this helps even if I can’t. th-cam.com/video/qfJthDvcZ08/w-d-xo.html. Jo
@@sandit1570 If you work from a script, you can upload it, and TH-cam will automatically sync it into captions. In the Video Editing page, go down to Subtitles, then click on ADD. It'll open another page where you'll have the option of uploading a file. Upload the script and TH-cam will do the rest. I realise everyone is working for free - but consider all the things that people have access to while in quarantine, and now consider how much of that is accessible. Not a lot. 1 in 3 will benefit from captions, besides the 1 in 6 deaf and hard of hearing, those with English as a second language, many with auditory processing and other similar conditions and anyone who needs to keep the sound down to avoid disturbing others. These videos are fabulous, but I can't share them with my friends, family and colleagues because they aren't accessible.
Thank you for pointing this out and thank you for offers of help. Alex seems to have sorted it! We’ll try and fix them from now on. Together we can all make this venture better.
Sandi. You have the name of the comet wrong. It is Halley's Comet, not Bill Haley's comet and the 'a' in it is pronounced like the 'a' in 'cat'. Bill Haley named his backing group 'The Comets' as a rather bad pun on the similarity between his name and that if the famous astronomer. Sadly many adopted the pun after Haley's hit and deprived the original discoverer of the naming rights he had rightfully earned. I had not expected you to do likewise, and I find myself hoping, but without much certainty, that it is the only basic factual error you have made in these enjoyable posts.
In all likelihood Sandy T will never read this, and I will get nothing but stupid mockery, but I will say this all the same: I didn't like ST making fun of Louis 16th. Of course the man was a fool, and probably psychologically damaged as well - absolutely the worst person to be in charge in a crisis - but so what? First it wasn't his fault, and it nobody would think it appropriate to laugh at a living person with his flaws; and second he paid for his mistakes with his life, and so did his wife, and so did his little son. Do not mock the afflicted.
No matter where she sits, Ms Toksvig is *always* First Class.
I saw Hale - Bop in Australia, where I live in 1997 I sat in our sprawling yard as it was a sheep station and watched it float in the horizon. Its tail was utterly magnificent. We had set up chairs and cold beverages to hydrate our open mouths. I also took a few flying lessons and one I remember being over Melbourne from Essendon airport. I didn't land it as I was a beginner but the take off was all entrusted into my shaky but exhilarated hands. I've tandem jumped out of one too. Hungover on my last day holidaying in Dunk Island. I landed on the soft beach in an exceedingly sober frame of mind. I love flying or anything to do with flying and Im not surprised given my totem (Im an Indigenous Australian) is the Wedge Tail Eagle. Just a bit of my trivia the first Indigenous Female to get her commercial pilots licence was Virginia Wykes in 1982. Love your videos and your wit, intelligence and compassion. Keep them coming as I look forward to them each week. : )
THANK GOODNESS IT'S FRIDAY has a whole new meaning!! x
Thank you Sandi for giving us these delightful videos. You are a rare and precious gem.
Love the tropical shirt!
Also, I saw Hale-Bopp with the naked eye when I lived in Boston during the 1990s.
Lastly, my several times great grandmother graduated from Hollins College in Virginia in the early 1850s, winning the prize for French. I still have the French language bible with which she was presented.
I love your stories. Aviation history and the aviators that made it, hold a special place in my heart. Thank you!
Brilliant. I hold out as long as I can to enjoy all the more; deferred gratification: it's a dying art! Husband at work, mother sorted, my time with Sandi and Debbie; priceless! :))))))
Partner at work ✅
Children at work ✅
Cat dropped out the back door ✅
Cuppa and a scone with jam and Cornish Clotted Cream ✅
And... “Ahhhhh” it’s Friday. 🥳
Sandi, THANK YOU a million times thank you xx
Cream or jam first ?
Jane West being in Cornwall means jam definitely first! 😉
@@catherinegaskain6419 You passed the test ! My SIL lives in Cornwall near Rhoddas HQ and Prima bakery
Jane West I’ve lived here since I was a child, various places now living just outside Liskeard down some windy country lanes. Our slice of heaven. Xx
Loved the ending, it was 😂😂. Still not an easy occupation to get into here in the UK for females. I do believe that the UK have the title of having the youngest female commercial captain in the world. I only know this because for years, my 14 year old granddaughter has said that she wants to be a pilot, and she told me about Captain Kate.
Thank you for the sanity and delight you bring to us all in lock down. And with such insights and histories of brave and wondrous women all delivered with wit. It's going to be while before any of us can fly again, and being over in Thailand and all my siblings and my mother in the UK I will at some point need to go there again,. So thanks again for helping us while away the hours
RIP Bessie....simply inspiring! Does anyone else out there wish that our wonderful Ms Toksvig would collate and transfer every single one of these broadcasts into book form - a pandemic plethora of sorts. Come on Sandi, get your publisher interested...PLEASE?!
I hope you continue with VOX long after the pandemic. Just wonderful to list to you and learn a lot about some great women. You are in the same category. Jane, Philadelphia
Friday mornings I wake up and check youtube so I can start my day with VT and my coffee and learn something interesting, have a gentle laugh, see her kind intelligent eyes and see them light up when she looks at her lovely bride. Sandi and Debbie make this time so much better. I am grateful for their efforts.
Ah Sandi, you are a breath of clean fresh air. Thank you for a so eloquently presenting a selection of uplifting examples of human achievement. You are also very funny. 😉
Missed you and your history. I love it that the french gave her what her own country wouldn't France seems to have done that for a lot of women in history.
They weren't that nice to everyone, but the point is well taken.
You probably already know about Eugene Bullard, but, if you don't, there are videos on TH-cam. He also has a remarkable story, with some similarities.
@@thistlenstar I have heard of the name I will have to look him up thanks.
@@karlmortoniv2951 it does go both ways but I know what you mean.
Didn't have the right to vote until the 40's though
Today's chat reminded me of the very enjoyable film "The Aeronauts" - I liked it, anyway - with the great Felicity Jones as just such a daredevil ballooning ladyperson as Sandi describes. Eddie Redmayne's in it too.
It reminded me of Poncho Barnes. An amazing pilot.
What a perfect way to start my morning. Thanks so much!!
I keep scanning the shelves behind for new things to read. Loving these!
You might want to check out "The Wright Sister: Katharine Wright and her Famous Brothers." It tells the story of her support of her brothers. I have very much enjoyed "VOX TOX," and shared the links with my nieces.
And you more certainly ARE in First class!
You're just awesome. Big love from USA.
Thanks, Sandi, for this!! Just a quick note that the Wright brothers also had a surviving sister, Katharine, who was outstanding in her own right!
Liz Davis Mozart did too! Oh well
And then there were those magnificent women who flew unarmed planes in WWII, ferrying them from point A to point B, for the further pleasure of their male counterparts. Difficult to find out about them, they seem to be a grubby secret. Can’t have the girls outdoing/doing as well as the Men now, can we
@@jandrews6254 If you're interested, the BBC documentary was Spitfire Women. They repeated it recently, so if you can access the BBC I Player and want to see it, it's still available for about a week. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tw1m1/spitfire-women
Always admiring the creativity
The new Sydney airport, to replace the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith airport, will be called the Nancy Bird Walton airport. You may be interested in her story. Thx Sandi
I'm watching you right now on Whose Line Is It Anyway! I'm so glad I got to know who you are so I can enjoy your performance.
The ending really made me chuckle 🤭🤭 Best Wishes to you and Debbie 💖
Thank you I was so worried that you were only going to be podcasting from now on . . . .but here you are! Wonderful stories thank you
Thank you for making these videos. I just love to listen to historical information and your comedic take is brilliant! You have given me a new reason to look forward to Friday!
I do hope you continue. I came late to this party but I’m learning quite a bit and I am enjoying your musings thoroughly.
Thanks Sandy and family, your posts are a sanctuary in the pandemic and youtube idiocy.
As a feminist the focus on women is appreciated and added to my knowledge of our achievements
A excellent episode! I particularly enjoyed the shirt 🤩 Thank you.
She has a son right? Can you imagine being raised by such a person? He s so lucky.
And a daughter
He had a cameo on QI. th-cam.com/video/dGcOdkWhgho/w-d-xo.html
I fall asleep to an old QI episode every night so I know them all pretty much word by word. Not as "stalky" as it might first appear. :)
@@hanstun1 I do that too, I find them relaxing.
She also has two daughters.
@@KylieWillison Oh my, that makes three of us! I thought I was the only one.
A great New Zealand woman flier, Jean Batton made the first solo flight from England to New Zealand in 1936. She had such an amazing life making and breaking many flying records. Sadly, she died from a dog bite and alone. Please, 'check her out' and discover her, as well as all these other fabulous women.
Thanks Janette! www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/jean_batten_bio.html
@@andrew.whitfieldcook Truly an amazing lady. Thank you Andrew
1590 views, 159 likes and then ME!!!!!!!! I'm like number 160. and comment number 37. Thank You Sandi and crew for putting these up. Enjoyable is a soft word for this experience. Intellectually Stimulating gets close...BRain Candy from the sweetest lady you can imagine.
Dear Sandy I had no idea who you were until I begin watching Qi on TH-cam. I'm truly enjoying these pieces now. I'm a retired engineer here in Texas, I had heard of Bessie before. Until this episode I never realized she come from very near my hometown. I'm from Corsicana, Texas, a in hour south of Dallas. waxahachie is about half way in between. I'm proud to know that someone who represents so much history is from there. Thank you for sharing this. Greetings to you and your loved ones, and thanks making the lock down pass more easily. Not to be pedantic but it's pronounced (wac sa hatch ie), an Indian word. I'm to old to be PC and use another national description. I also really like your Apollo 11 story. I'm working on a painting about Apollo 11, more of a off beat social commentary on the selfie culture. If you wish I can send a link when I finish. Thanks & good evening. Scott.
Woo-hoo, just spotted a second book on Sandi's shelves of which I also own a copy. It makes me feel so cultured! 😊
I regret to inform you that you featured prominently in a dream I had last night. Nothing inappropriate as far as I can recall and as you are the first of the female species to appear in a remembered dream for a long while, I doubt anything inappropriate did occur. We were in my bathroom but fully clothed and wondering why the blue dye from my jumper was running down the bathroom wall and why dog hair from my previous day's washing of the dog were still plastered over the wall. Welcome to my subconscious Sandy, pleased to have you aboard.
Abs loving these xxxx
Oh wow, that was stupendous! Although so very unjust just how many extraordinary people, and women in particular have been virtually written out of the history books, I find it exhilarating each week as you send me a Googling like a cybernetic bloodhound in search of yet more to each titbit you dangle before me. As a lover of flying too, this week had me agog. However, as an eco warrior (albeit way too late in the game), it also helped give me a little reminder of what I missed the most - yep, the gourmet nuts and a wee drinkypoo!! ... Thanks for the wonderful guffaw that elicited 😆 Hmm, wonder if I have a stale bag in the back of my kitchen cupboard... See you next week. Only one suggestion comes to mind - can you at least try not to wear such dull clobber? 🤪✌🏻 Stay safe, I need the sanity!!
Debbie is appalled by my clothes. I call it Lockdown liberation. I have zero interest in fashion and dress for comfort, I'm afraid. Normal clothing service will resume when I'm back in the TV studio and someone else is choosing.
Sandi T dressing for comfort is the only thing I know how to do! Every decade or so, I find myself inadvertently in fashion - most embarrassing...
Sandy (& Debbie) thanks once again for another fun and educational talk always interesting and fun to listen to.
I grew up in Chicago but never knew more about Bessie Coleman than her name. Thank you, Sandi!
Wonderful
The Wright brothers had a sister who took care of them and nursed them back to health. She was a teacher. When late in life she wanted to get married her brother got upset because she wouldn't be taking care of him after that. They also had a brother, Lorin who gave the brothers a niece and nephew . David McCullen wrote a biography of the Wright Brothers but my favorite is James Tobin's To Conquer the Air. I bet you would like both books. You would learn what an amazing woman Kate Wright was. I love your show. I am from Michigan.
Thank you so much for these marvellous chats. I'm an ex-pat living in northern Thailand and your lovely fireside chats keep me cosily smiling.
I've been loving the relaxed and informative Vox Tox videos every time they are uploaded. For once, I have something to add myself. The Wright Brothers understood patents very well, but they were not the pioneers responsible for mastering the technical aspects of flying. That title belongs to Glenn Curtiss. He made engines for airplanes as early as 1904, but the Wright Brothers pushed him out of history almost entirely by claiming that he violated their patent that they made in 1906...
Loving the tropical look!
Ah fantastic to see more! Nice way to wind down the workday.
"I once owned a very similar garment myself" LOL :D
Lovely episode! I read that there were female pilots during WOII that flew newly built planes to the various bases, WHILE reading their manual for the first time.
Congratulations on a fantastic installment. I've learnt so much - what an astonishing set of people to go find out more about.
You'll always be Ethel Davis to me.
*giggling* I just love you quirky lady!
Hooray! We made it to another Friday! Thanks, Sandi!
I'm really surprised that you didn't mention the Speed Queen, Jacqueline Cochran. She won the Bendix. She was the first woman to break the sound barrier. She headed the Women Air Force Service Pilots. By her death, no other pilot - male or female- held more records for speed, distance or altitude in aviation history. She was a life-long friend of Chuck Yeager who was a great supporter of hers. She was also awarded several honors for her military service. Her story is even more amazing when you consider that she came from a poor family in the panhandle of Florida.
I like the shirt
Oh Sandi, the hallucinations have set in as eventually I thought they would. 🤣
Thank you
Hubby suggests you look into electric gliders. We have them in the states and certainly they have a smaller carbon footprint. Soar high.
Every week when I watch you I realise how little I know
Wonderful :-) Thank you so much :-)
I think Sandi Toksvig is turning into Uncle Monty in Withnail and I.
i have just read the obituary of Sally Rowley, freedom rider and flyer.
Superlative!
One aviatrix, two aviatrixes or aviatrices.
But these Latin-derived plurals are too high flying for me.
❤️
brilliant
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Bobby Knitwit cannot be a real name..! It's as funny as Randy Brush. ;-)
I think it's the name of the assistant Sandi has knitted and is standing on the mantelpiece...😊
I thought it's the name of her dog?
Bessie Coleman has a road at O'Hare Airport maned after her.
It's worth mention that the perihelion of the Sun has recently emerged from the Milky Way's dark ages across the cosmic multiverse.
Good day, would you please explain the tiny door and window on the shelf behind the chairpole and above your left shoulder? Thank you
Katharine Wright, their sister, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Wright
Forgive me for being *that* person but... It isn't Haley's comet (with a long a sound), but Halley's comet (i.e., with a short a sound). People often mispronounce it because of the band Bill Haley and the Comets
Alas, haven't watched every VOXTOX but what about female P.I.s such as Maud West? Has that topic been covered?
That’s some shirt!
The fem version of "aviators" is "aviatrices".
I always thought it was kind of sexy. XD
During the lock down I have been looking into the lives of great Canadian women. So I was a bit disappointed when you did not mention Kathleen "Kit" Coleman. Died May 16 1915. Born in Ireland came to Canada and to make extra money writing for a Toronto news paper. Soon she had her own "Woman's Column" but feeling that woman wanted more than just knitting and child rearing she began to add politics and science. She became the first accredited female war correspondent in the world. She covered the Diamond Jubilee, and the Worlds Fair. And when she asked the paper for a 5 dollar a week raise to be equal with male reporters and they said no. She quit. Hopefully it will be over, but if not. Viola Desmond end of July 1965. she's on or ten dollar bill. Dr. Lucille Teasdale, August 1 1996. She just might be the bravest person that you've never heard of. Stay safe.
Please, please caption these.
I absolutely would but I'm afraid I don't know how. Everyone is working for free and doing their best. If you know someone who can please let us know.
Sandi T , I’m going to use my FOAF network to see if I can find the answer for you... my first step is an app called Discord... be back later.
Sandi, I would love to offer my help in doing this for you...if you need an extra body, then I am a free resource for you! That said, I have attached a useful TH-cam video for you. Seems you can download the closed captioning that TH-cam generates and correct it. It looks VERY straight forward. I hope this helps even if I can’t. th-cam.com/video/qfJthDvcZ08/w-d-xo.html. Jo
@@sandit1570 If you work from a script, you can upload it, and TH-cam will automatically sync it into captions. In the Video Editing page, go down to Subtitles, then click on ADD. It'll open another page where you'll have the option of uploading a file. Upload the script and TH-cam will do the rest.
I realise everyone is working for free - but consider all the things that people have access to while in quarantine, and now consider how much of that is accessible. Not a lot. 1 in 3 will benefit from captions, besides the 1 in 6 deaf and hard of hearing, those with English as a second language, many with auditory processing and other similar conditions and anyone who needs to keep the sound down to avoid disturbing others. These videos are fabulous, but I can't share them with my friends, family and colleagues because they aren't accessible.
Thank you for pointing this out and thank you for offers of help. Alex seems to have sorted it! We’ll try and fix them from now on. Together we can all make this venture better.
Fabulous - thank you! Find out more about early women pilots and engineers at www.magnificentwomen.co.uk.
Sandi. You have the name of the comet wrong. It is Halley's Comet, not Bill Haley's comet and the 'a' in it is pronounced like the 'a' in 'cat'. Bill Haley named his backing group 'The Comets' as a rather bad pun on the similarity between his name and that if the famous astronomer. Sadly many adopted the pun after Haley's hit and deprived the original discoverer of the naming rights he had rightfully earned. I had not expected you to do likewise, and I find myself hoping, but without much certainty, that it is the only basic factual error you have made in these enjoyable posts.
I’m afraid I grew up in New York and that’s how we used to say it. Not sure that counts as a factual error but thanks.
😂
In all likelihood Sandy T will never read this, and I will get nothing but stupid mockery, but I will say this all the same: I didn't like ST making fun of Louis 16th. Of course the man was a fool, and probably psychologically damaged as well - absolutely the worst person to be in charge in a crisis - but so what? First it wasn't his fault, and it nobody would think it appropriate to laugh at a living person with his flaws; and second he paid for his mistakes with his life, and so did his wife, and so did his little son. Do not mock the afflicted.