Tales of beautiful “Amazon” women. Plus, Angelina Jolie. Need we say more?
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| | The village leader played it smart. She knew reporters were coming to her town with wild tales of beautiful “Amazon” women running it. If someone wanted to play up the beauty and strength of the villagers, so be it. It forced competition among those looking for spouses. And the world found a place where not only did women outnumber men, the residents took charge of day-to-day operations—and everyone worked collaboratively.
There’s a lot you can learn from Brazil’s Noiva do Cordeiro, including acceptance and tolerance.
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Anything you can do: Residents work together to harvest crops, such as kale (above). The village eats some of it; sells another part; and saves more to feed livestock. Shown at top, Bruna Oliveira Fernandes, one of the 350 or so residents. | | | |
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Catching shade: Part of the village’s culture is to help each other raise the kids. “There are lots of arms to hold him,” Daiane Fernandes de Araújo (second from left) says of her son. | | | |
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Meet the boss: Since 1995, Delina Fernandes has led the village. Above, Fernandes, 78, sits for a portrait with some of her 15 children. | | | |
| | Judge not: Wearing formal attire for a portrait, Alexsander Estéfano Moreira Morais helps his partner, Marco Antonio Fernandes Emediato, fix his bow tie. In a country with one of the highest rates of violence against LGBTQ+ people, Noiva is a refuge. Read more. | | | |
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| | Designed to keep Asian immigrants out: Angel Island immigration station, built in 1910 and often referred to as the “Ellis Island of the West,” was anything but a welcoming port of entry into the United States. Instead, during its 30 years in operation, the center processed around 500,000 immigrants from 80 countries—and about 175,000 Chinese and 60,000 Japanese were detained there. (Above, Japanese passengers are examined by U.S. officials.)
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A Chinese-American pioneer: She immigrated to the U.S. from China in the mid-1900s. She became Princeton’s first female physics instructor—and then joined the top-secret research program now known as the Manhattan Project. Who was Chien-Shiung Wu (pictured above)?
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Today’s soundtrack: Run the World (Girls), Beyoncé
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