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JWHJohn Wesley Harding
JWHJournal of Women's History
JWHJulia Ward Howe (author)
JWHJohn Wieland Homes (Smyrna, GA)
JWHJAL (Japan Airlines) World Hotels (reservation and discount service)
JWHJamming with Heather (Beatles bootleg)
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The American tradition of honoring mothers every second Sunday of May has only begun in May 9, 1914 through the efforts of Julia Ward Howe (wrote a Mother''s Day Proclamation as a call for peace and disarmament in 1870), Ann Jarvis (she attempted to improve sanitation through what she called Mothers'' Work Days in 1858), and Anna Jarvis (the daughter of the previously mentioned who also started a movement to impose a memorial day for women in 1907).
It's Time to Give Mom Something Special by Timothy Spencer / Home improvement and landscaping community
1, Howe Family Manuscripts, Harvard University Library, Houghton; and Julia Ward Howe Diary, Oct.
"Crete the opening wedge": nationalism and international affairs in ... by Prior, David / Journal of Social History
Julia Ward Howe wrote a Mother's Day Proclamation that spoke to peace on earth and goodwill towards all.
SiStarhood Gather the Women by Tonya K Freeman / Women's issues/gender studies community
 
 
 
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