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James Springer

Women have played crucial roles throughout the history of space flight, but they have largely taken second place to men. Commercial space flight could change that by democratising space.

Women have traditionally been expected to be passive and to do domestic duties. Relatively few are in the world's armed forces, and even fewer receive combat training.

A collection of paintings brought together over 30 years shows how North Vietnamese artists portrayed Vietnamese communists as intelligent, expressive individuals, far from the biased interpretation of being red-eyed bogeymen.

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