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The Story Of The Radium Girls And Their Decades-Long Fight For Justice
The hundreds of young women who worked in watch factories throughout the 1920s were exposed to so much radium that they used ...
They thought this ‘miracle’ metal would change the world – until people started to die
The wonder of Radium, a glowing treasure discovered by Marie Curie, blinded the world to its perils... and it quickly became ...
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Museum exhibit sheds light on Ottawa’s tragic radium dial history
The Ottawa Historical and Scouting Heritage Museum has a permanent exhibit dedicated to the young women who used radium paint ...
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Kate Moore (authorkatemoore) on BuzzFeed - I am the author of The Radium Girls, the incredible true story of the American women who stood up and fought for justice and in so doing changed the world.