HISTORY BUFF IS TRAVELING TO INDIA....

To research my next two books and.... (as some of you already know) to GET MARRIED!!!!! I'll be gone for a few months, but when I retur...

New Ancestor?

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Newly revealed Coptic fragment has Jesus making reference to 'my wife'

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Have archaeologists found church where Richard III was buried?

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Third 5,000-year-old figurine found at Orkney dig

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Evelyn McHale - Most Beautiful Suicide

From Iconic Photos : The photo was taken on May Day, 1947 at the bottom of the Empire State Building. Photography student, Richard Wiles, wa...

Obstetric Fistula - Ignored

From Science Blogs : It’s estimated that  up to 3.5 million women currently suffer from fistulas   , with somewhere from 50,000 to 130,000 n...

Oceanographer Marie Tharp

From Huffington Post : On February 2, 2009, thanks to  Google Ocean  , the ocean floor's topography was revealed for millions of people ...

Interview: Irene Bedard

From Indian Country Today Media Network : Since portraying Mary Crow Dog in the Television production of  Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Kne...

Malian treasures trapped in a culture war

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Ancient poem deifies wife of brutal Roman emperor Nero

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100 Years Ago, French Artists Predicted The Future With Eerie Accuracy

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Amelia Earhart - Case Closed

Fred Noonan & Amelia Earhart I have just finished " Amelia Earhart - Case Closed " by Mike and Marjie Markowski, the revised e...

Amelia Earhart - Lost Evidence?

From CNN : CNN reported Sunday that a 1937 photo may be key in finding, with certainty, the final resting place of Earhart as well as her na...

Iran: Women Banned From University Programs

From Ynet News : Universities in Iran  have announced that dozens of academic programs in the coming year will be "single-gender,"...

FACES OF OUR ANCESTORS

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10 of America's best historic restaurants

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PREHISTORIC HUMAN BRAIN FOUND PICKLED IN BOG

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Mary Toft - Bunnies In The Oven

From the Wellcome Library : In November 1726, a woman named Mary Toft was at the center of a public debate that included some eminent physic...

The Daylight Gate

From the Guardian : Pendle:  a place synonymous with witches  and Britain's most notorious diabolism trials. The candle-passing parlour ...

Queen Victoria's Bad Boy Bertie

From Mail Online : Perhaps no Prince of Wales in history has been less trusted — or more spied upon — than the boy everyone knew as Bertie. ...

Unusual "Royal" Aztec Burial

From Associated Press : Mexican archaeologists say they have found an unprecedented human burial in which the skeleton of a young woman is s...

Lady Anne's Great Books of Record

From Science Daily : A three-year study into a set of manuscripts compiled and written by one of Britain's earliest feminist figures has...

Was Narmada valley the centre of human evolution?

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Manchester Female Reformers At Peterloo Massacre

From the Guardian : The  Peterloo massacre    on Monday 16 August 1819 - 193 years ago tomorrow - took place when a peaceful crowd, assemble...

Mary Pearcey - Jill The Ripper?

From History Channel : It’s true that while many theories about the killer’s identity have emerged over the years, some of them more implaus...

PREHISTORIC SHARK SPECIES FOUND IN ARIZ.

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Ancient Seal May Add Substance to the Legend of Samson

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THE SECOND EMPRESS has debuted!!!!

My fifth novel, about Napoleon's court and the women who inhabited it, debuted today, and I could not be more excited!!!! Please visit m...

Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History

Environmental journalist Florence Williams says that "Breasts are bellwethers for the changing health of people.” It was after reading...

‘Ancient’ Olympics revival shuns commerce

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Chocolate residue found on early Maya plates, a first

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Sea gives up a portrait of ancient Rome

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A Danish Royal Affair

From History Today : In 1769 the German outsider, Johann Struensee, arrived in Copenhagen as the physician and companion to the deranged Chr...

La Malinche - Heroine or Temptress

A small army of Spaniards left Cuba in February 1519 on eleven ships headed for the Mainland. The expedition was led by Hernán Cortés who ha...

Mass grave in London reveals how volcano caused global catastrophe

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Historic Chocolate

From The Mary Sue : Although these chocolate traces aren’t the oldest to our knowledge, preceded by beverage vessels found in excavations of...

Women Excavate Metropolis

From Hurryiet Daily News : A fter 22 years of male only excavation teams, women have recently joined ongoing excavation works in the ancient...

Archeologists unearth extraordinary human sculpture in Turkey

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HISTORY'S HORRORS IN THE PRESENT: 11-year-old girl married to 40-year-old man

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Did a recently found bird spear belong to a kidnapped Greenlander?

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Mary Louise Rasmuson

From the New York Times : Mary Louise Rasmuson, who joined the Women’s Army Corps when it was formed during World War II,   rose to be its d...

Twelve Rooms of the Nile

“To speak the names of the dead is to make them live again.” –The Book of the Dead There is no more apt way to introduce celebrated poet and...

Marilyn by Lois Banner

MARILYN: The Passion and the Paradox  -  Hers was a life lived fully and ambitiously, and cut short tragically; this much we all know is tru...

2,500-year-old chocolate may have been used by Mayas as condiment, not just beverage

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Modern culture emerged in Africa 20,000 years earlier than thought

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Ancient Mummy Shows Person Had Lung Infection at Time of Death

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House of the Telephus Relief: raising the roof on Roman real estate

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6,500 year old hunting trophy found in eastern Croatia

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