women

    Wearing heels is a fashion statement that increases your confidence and charm. The boosted height, elegance in steps, and posture all give women a great boost in confidence to appear in public gatherings. This is why high heels are the most preferred foot...

    Wearing heels is a fashion statement that increases your confidence and charm. The boosted height, elegance in steps, and posture all give women a great boost in confidence to appear in public gatherings. This is why high heels are the most preferred foot...

    From her apartment’s rooftop just as the sun sets, Rosa Marín curves her left index and thumb to form a circle in the air. Her two fingertips meet and create a little tunnel that seems to erase the rest of the landscape before her. With the improvised pee...

    HISTORYDid an Enslaved Woman Try to Warn the Americans of Benedict Arnold’s Treason?New research sheds light on Liss, who was enslaved by the family of a Culper Spy Ring leader and had ties to British spymaster John André As recent archival finds an...

    As bizarre as it may seem, a number of women have married serial killers. According to psychologists, some wed such murderers due to a sexual paraphilia known as hybristophilia. Professor John Money, a sexologist, explains that such wives are sexually aro...

    Stigmatathe mysterious manifestation of wounds on a persons body that correspond with the crucifixion wounds suffered by Jesus Christmay be a form of hysteric mind over matter or a religious miracle depending on your beliefs. The first stigmatic recorded ...

    History and pop culture have given us hundreds, if not thousands, of stories involving damsels in distress. Only occasionally do we hear of figures such as Mulan and Boudicca who show the strength and prowess of women on the battlefield. Here are tales of...

    Throughout history, a few remarkable women managed to rise to the top of male-dominated societies and take power in their own right. Their names echo through history: Hatshepsut, Cleopatra, Wu Zetian. But it was more common for powerful women to need to c...

    Born in Paris in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was a feminist philosopher, writer, and teacher. She won the Prix Goncourt, France’s prestigious literary award, for her 1954 novel The Mandarins. But her best-known work, The Second Sex, set off a feminist bombsh...

    Just as the letter J is derived from I and the letter U is derived from V, G actually began life around 2300 years ago as a variant of the letter C. Before then, C had been used in Latin to represent both the hard “g” sound and, alongside letter K, the so...

    The modern reader may seem strange, but there are still places in the world where the foot of the fair sex has not gone, even in our days! Very often, these strict prohibitions are based on religious prejudices, others simply because of the “strange...

    SMART NEWSMeet the Muses Who Inspired Some of the World’s Most Iconic ArtworksA new book examines the lives of muses across history and the role they played in shaping treasured works like “The Kiss” and “Ophelia” Museum visi...

    The ratio of men and women in the list of billionaires remains extremely unequal. But in the world of billions of capitals, there is a place for ladies who are world’s richest women.2017 is the year of records for women-billionaires. This year, the ...

    Have you ever wondered why foreigners prefer to date Russian women online or in real life? What encourages them to choose Russians? For many people, Russia is a distant, cold and gloomy country. Why do Russian women allure foreign men so much? The thing i...

    SMART NEWSHistory of NowIn 1973, a Leak at the Supreme Court Broke News of an Imminent Ruling on Roe v. WadeNearly 50 years later, a similar disclosure revealed that the court is poised to overturn legalized abortion in the U.S.Demonstrators at a pro-choi...

    Think some American politicians have shown a bad attitude toward women lately? The nineteenth century saw terrible things done to the fairer sex, some amounting to what wed consider abusebut which were considered normal at the time. Here are ten ways the ...

    Here is a list of ten truly intriguing women, all of whom have one thing in common: at some point in their lives, they gave their bodies over to the enjoyment of men in exchange for money.I have tried to find a wide array of fascinating women to introduce...

    Strongwomen, no less than strongmen, have long been an audience pleasing feature of circuses and carnivals, vaudeville, variety theater, fairgrounds, and music halls right up until the modern century. The 10 famous ladies of steel on this list were buff, ...

    In 1945, a 19-year-old Norma Jeane Baker signed up with modeling agency Blue Book. The receptionist wrote down her measurements as 36-24-34, which at 5’5” and 118 pounds would be considered, by today’s BMI standards, a completely healthy, average size. Bu...

    In 1979, the United States came the closest it’s ever been to a commercial nuclear catastrophe.A malfunctioning valve led to a partial meltdown in one of the two reactors at the nuclear power plant on Three Mile Island, a small island located in Lake Fred...