Execution of Mary Dyer

From The Examiner : On this day, June 1, in 1660, American colonist Mary Dyer was hanged in Boston for violating Massachusetts Bay Colony la...

Egypt: Virginity Test On Female Protestors

From Bikyamasr : In yet another sign of the poor treatment of women in Egypt, its military rulers attempted to defend so-called ‘virginity’ ...

Blackbeard's anchor recovered off NC coast

AP: By MARTHA WAGGONER, Associated Press Martha Waggoner MOREHEAD CITY, N.C. – An anchor from what...

Books on Women

Two new and different books on women: Scribling Women by Marthe Jocelyn Jocelyn features 11 women writers in her portraits. Some are highly ...

Standing Up to Fight: Does It Explain Why We Walk Upright and Why Women Like Tall Men?

ScienceDaily — A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when...

Clues to Neanderthal hunting tactics hidden in reindeer teeth

Scientists have found that our cousins the Neanderthal employed sophisticated hunting strategies similar to the tactics used much later by...

Egyptian princess was first person with diagnosed coronary artery disease

The Egyptian princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon, who lived in Thebes (Luxor) between 1580 and 1550 BC and who is now known to be first person in ...

Did William Wallace aspire to be King of Scotland?

H istorians from the University of Glasgow have found evidence to show that, as far as the English were concerned, Scots patriot and hero...

Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon - Diagnosis

From Eureka Alert : The coronary arteries of Princess Ahmose-Meryet-Amon - as visualised by whole body computerised tomography (CT) scanning...

Secret Life of Handbags

From the Irish Times :   For many women, their handbag is more than something to carry their make-up – it’s their whole life in a leather co...

Zambia: Female President??

From Lusaka Times : It is clear that many women in Zambian politics, ancient and modern played and have continued to play a crucial role in ...

Notable Female Indian Politicians

From the Bangalore Mirror : For the first time in the history of our democracy, four states are being led by women chief ministers. Here’s l...

Bahraini Women & the Peace Protest

From AhlulBayt News Agency : Dozens are detained in prison facing torture and humiliation for participating in peaceful protests. Bahrain re...

Ann Smith - Veterans Oral History Project

From Gainsville : In retirement, Ann Smith is not content to sit back and relax. As coordinator of the Veterans Project for the Samuel Proct...

Confederate Women - Two Stories

From GO San Angelo : Recently, folks here recognized a lady not too well-known when her burial place in Fairmount Cemetery was singled out f...

Beatriz de Dia - Trobairitz

From the Mid Sussex Times : Unsung Heroine is a new performance piece which explores the imagined history of the redoubtable 12th-century w...

Women of the Crusade of 1101

Reprinted with the kind permission of author extraordinare Nan Hawthorne : Women of the Crusade of 1101 - Backdrop to Beloved Pilgrim Resear...

The Green Lady of Caerphilly Castle

From Reuters : Legends say she is the spirit of Alice de la Marche of Angouleme, France, niece of Henry II and the disgraced lover of a knig...

Willa Cather's Unfinished Novel

From Google : A passage from Willa Cather's unfinished and purportedly destroyed novel "Hard Punishments" was among a new coll...

India's Glamour Royal Women

From rediff.com : These queens and princesses had hordes of admirers in their time and it's easy to see why. The Duchess of Cambridge an...

Solving Darwin's Medical Mystery

Charles Darwin shook the world with his theory of evolution, but he couldn't figure out what ailed him. Read the rest here.

Crocodile God Temple Featured Croc Nursery

Egyptian authorities put another archaeological site on the country’s tourist map yesterday by opening a visitor center at Madinet Madi in ...

France returns first Maori head to New Zealand

ROUEN (Reuters Life!) - France on Monday handed back the tattooed, mummified head of a Maori tribesman to New Zealand authorities, markin...

Celtic Princess Grave

From Irish Central : German archaeologists are examining a Celtic grave in the Danube heartland when they found the remains of a Celtic prin...

Generations of Remarkable Women

From the Deccan Herald : The women in this story are undoubtedly brilliant, but what shines through making their story so compelling is the ...

Two "New" Novels By DE Stevenson

From BBC News : Two "new" novels by Scots author DE Stevenson are being published nearly 40 years after her death. The manuscripts...

Four Women Western Writers

From New West : When we did the Western Literature Association survey of Most Important Authors, very few women made the list. Willa Cather ...

Cleopatra - Art Throughout The Ages

From the National : The Greek writer Plutarch first wrote about her in a book called Parallel Lives sometime around 100 AD. He said she met ...

Warrior Moms in History

From Live Science : Mother's Day usually celebrates all of the sweet and loving moms out there. But there's another breed of moms th...

Qajar Women

Women's World in Qajar Iran : Explore the lives of women during the Qajar era (1796-1925) through a wide array of materials from private...

Famour Women in Hungary

From Xpatloop : When one lists the outstanding personalities of Hungarian history, one tends to think of crowned kings, valiant commanders, ...

Fleet Street Editor: Rachel Beer

From the Jewish Chronicle Online : Until very recently if you Googled the name Rachel Beer you would not come up with anything very much, ce...

Historic Women of Waukesha

From Waukesha Patch : History books about our area are replete with the men who made Waukesha famous, from spring prospectors like Col. Dunb...

Victorian Secrets

From Dayton Daily News : We tend to think of “discomfort” to describe women’s undergarments of the Victorian period. Yet there’s evidence th...

The Woman in the Sunbonnet

From RGJ.com : If it weren't for the courageous, long suffering pioneer women who left their families to come West in the mid1800s, Neva...

Closure: Joan of Arc Museum

From Mail Online : A museum detailing the life and death of the French heroine Joan of Arc could close if nobody offers to buy it. Opened wh...

Celtic Princess Grave

From BBC News : German experts are carefully taking apart a complete Celtic grave in the hope of finding out more about the Celts' way o...