From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2025-03-08, Ross Clark  wrote:   
      
   > It shows up on my master list as a national holiday only in Russia,   
   > Belarus and Ukraine.   
      
   In Germany, it's a regional holiday in... *checks schulferien.org*...   
   Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.   
      
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Women%27s_Day   
   >   
   > /Ob sci.lang:  The Wikipedia article features a dynamic poster for IWD   
   > in Germany, 1914. "This poster was banned in the German Empire."   
   > One line on the poster reads: "Heraus mit dem Frauenwahlrecht."   
   > I find it hard not to translate that as "Out with women's right to   
   > vote"; but in English that would give the opposite of what I'm sure was   
   > the intended meaning. So it's really something like "Come out and show   
   > your support for....". Am I right?   
      
   That would be my guess as well.  It's an odd phrasing from today's   
   perspective.   
      
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   Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
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