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The result was: promoted by
Cwmhiraeth (
talk) 06:23, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
... that in 1972
Colorado engineering technician Janet Bonnema legally challenged the superstition that a woman who went underground into a tunnel or mine brought bad luck? Source: "The old superstition that says there's no telling what dangers might ensue if a woman goes underground is the legacy of Welsh miners who came to work in Colorado in the 1850s. Janet doesn't think that superstition is legal". (
LIFE, pp. 49-50)