protest
Oddlets tagged protest.
The Man Who Stabbed a Bible
A century before the Civil War, a four-foot-seven cave-dweller in a military coat walked into a Quaker meeting and sprayed fake blood on every slaveholder in the room.
The Woman Who Practiced Madness in a Mirror
Nellie Bly spent one night practicing insanity in a mirror, then fooled every doctor who examined her.
The Woman Who Discovered Climate Change from Her Seat
She discovered the greenhouse effect in 1856, then sat in the audience while a man read her paper aloud because women weren't allowed to present their own work.