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"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric to boost worker morale. The poster is generally thought to be based on a black-and-white wire service photograph taken of a Michigan factory worker named Geraldine Hoff. During World War II the image was strictly internal to Westinghouse, displayed only during February 1943, and was not for recruitment but to exhort already-hired women to work harder. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several US politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming prime minister of Australia. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration. (Full article...)

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A meteoroid explodes over Chelyabinsk in central Russia, injuring more than 500 people.

In an EU-wide scandal, horse meat and pork are found in food products labelled as containing beef.

North Korea conducts its third nuclear weapons test.

Benedict XVI announces that he will resign as pope of the Catholic Church at the end of February.

Thirty-six people are killed and thirty-nine injured in a stampede in Allahabad, India, during the Kumbh Mela festival.

At the Grammy Awards, Gotye wins Record of the Year and Mumford & Sons wins Album of the Year.

In association football, the Africa Cup of Nations concludes with Nigeria defeating Burkina Faso in the final.

Argo wins three awards, including Best Film, at the 66th British Academy Film Awards.

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On this day...

February 15: National Day in Serbia

1898 – The United States Navy battleship USS Maine exploded and sank in Havana, Cuba (wreckage pictured), killing more than 260 people and precipitating the Spanish–American War.

1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux began excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.

1965 – Canada adopted the Maple Leaf flag, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign.

1979 – Don Dunstan resigned as Premier of South Australia, ending a decade of sweeping social liberalisation.

2003 – In one of the largest anti-war rallies in history, millions around the world in approximately 800 cities took part in protests against the impending invasion of Iraq.

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An Australian Brushturkey (Alectura lathami) in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. The species, which measures up to 60–75 centimetres (24–30 in) in length, is the largest extant species of megapode. Although physically similar, the species is not closely related to the Turkey.

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