The Canary Girls were British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene (TNT) shells during the First World War (1914–1918). The nickname...
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bright yellow, which resulted in their acquiring the nickname "canary girls" or simply "canaries". People exposed to TNT over a prolonged period tend to experience...
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Black Canary is the name of two superheroines appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. As one of the earliest female superheroes in the...
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Mikron Theatre Company (redirect from Canary Girls (play))
Mikron's 2016 tour featured Canary Girls by Laurence Peacock, about 1914 munitions factory workers (who were known as Canary Girls because their skin turned...
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yellow colouration on the skin, which can be peeled off.[citation needed] Canary Girls Xanthoproteic acid Chatterjea, M.N. (2009). Textbook of biochemistry...
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Bill Canary, also William Canary, is a Republican campaign consultant in Alabama. His wife, Leura Canary, was the United States Attorney for the United...
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of which about 100 were fatal. Munition workers were sometimes called Canary Girls, British women who worked in munitions manufacturing trinitrotoluene...
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playwright and dramaturg based in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. His Canary Girls, about the canary girls (munitions workers) of World War I, was one of Mikron Theatre...
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women's skin turned yellow, and they were known as the "Chilwell Canaries" or "Canary Girls". A substantial part of the National Shell Filling Factory was...
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the teen drama Gossip Girl (2010–2012). Cassidy had her breakthrough in 2012, after being cast as Laurel Lance / Black Canary, on The CW television series...
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