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The UEFA Euro 2020 final was a football match between England and Italy that took place at Wembley Stadium (pictured) in London, England, on 11 July 2021 to determine the winner of UEFA Euro 2020, which had been delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Italy won their second European Championship, beating first-time finalists England 3–2 in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw after extra time. England's Luke Shaw opened the scoring in the second minute of the match, the fastest goal ever scored in a European Championship final, only for Leonardo Bonucci – who was later named the man of the match – to equalise midway through the second half. England had a 2–1 advantage in the shoot-out after two kicks each, but Italy came back to win. The event was marred by crowd disorder and incidents of violence; the English Football Association was punished by UEFA. Racial abuse on social media directed at England's final three, unsuccessful, penalty takers led to a police investigation. (Full article...)

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"We Can Do It!"

"We Can Do It!" is an American Second World War poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale. It depicts a woman in a blue work shirt and a red-and-white polka-dot bandana flexing her right biceps while looking out at the viewer, with the title "We Can Do It!" in a speech bubble at the top of the poster. No more than 1,800 copies were printed. It was not initially seen beyond several Westinghouse factories in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the midwestern U.S., where it was scheduled to be displayed for two five-day work weeks starting Monday, February 15, 1943. The poster was little seen during the war, but was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s.

Poster credit: J. Howard Miller; restored by Adam Cuerden

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