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League of Nation: The international organization between two World Wars

  The League of Nations was an intergovernmental organization founded on January 10, 1920, as part of the Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I. It was established with the aim of promoting international cooperation, resolving disputes, and preventing future conflicts. The League of Nations was proposed by President Woodrow Wilson of the United States as one of his Fourteen Points for peace. The League's charter was included in the Treaty of Versailles, which was signed by the victorious Allied powers and Germany. The League's headquarters were located in Geneva, Switzerland. The League of Nations consisted of two main bodies: the Assembly and the Council. The Assembly served as a forum for all member states to discuss and vote on important issues, while the Council was responsible for making decisions and taking action on matters of international concern. The Council consisted of permanent members (the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Japan) and non-permanent members e...
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Who is Kitty O'Neil?

 On March 24, 1946, Kitty Linn O'Neil was born. She was an American stuntwoman and racer, given the title as "the fastest woman in the world".



An illness in early childhood left her deaf, and more illnesses in early adulthood cut short a career in competitive diving. However, O'Neil's subsequent career as a stuntwoman and race driver led to her depiction in a television movie and as an action figure. Her women's absolute land speed record stood until 2019. Sadly, O'Neil passed away on November 2, 2018.

Kitty Linn O'Neil was born in Corpus Christi, Texas in 1946. She lost her hearing due to simultaneous childhood diseases and her father died in an airplane crash during her childhood. Her mother taught her lip-reading and speech, eventually becoming a speech therapist and co-founding a school for students with hearing impairment. Kitty became a competitive diver in her teenage years, but had to give up her Olympic dreams due to a wrist injury and spinal meningitis. She later turned to water skiing, scuba diving, skydiving and hang gliding. In her late 20s, she underwent two treatments for cancer.

Kitty O'Neil was a stuntwoman who participated in racing on water and land, including breaking the women's land-speed record in 1976 with a hydrogen peroxide powered three-wheeled rocket car, reaching an average speed of 512.710 mph. She also set a women's high-fall record of 127 feet and later broke her own record with a 180-foot fall from a helicopter. O'Neil appeared in The Bionic Woman, Airport '77, The Blues Brothers, Smokey and the Bandit II, and other television and movie productions as a stuntwoman. She retired in 1982 after several of her colleagues were killed while performing stunts. O'Neil died on November 2, 2018, of pneumonia in Eureka, South Dakota, at the age of 72.

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