Long before Jack the Ripper took to the streets in London, a Roman woman named Locusta earned the title of “World’s First Serial Killer” due to her penchant for poisons… and assassinations.
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Sometimes if you want to meet someone, you gotta get sent to a wartime labor camp.
read nowThe Italians thought they knew what they were getting into when they tried to colonize Ethiopia. They were wrong.
read nowWhen I was nineteen, I earned $250 for correctly pronouncing “Worcester.” By the time she reached 19, Mary Patten had faced down a mutiny and commanded a merchant ship.
read nowTurns out, Betsy Ross did a whole lot more than just sew a flag.
read nowThis is not a story about a princess in need of saving. This is a story about a princess who saved herself.
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If you think your last Thanksgiving was bad, be glad you weren’t a guest at Nitocris’ banquet.
read nowSarah Emma Edmonds’ dad was such a d*ck that she ran away from Canada to join the United States’ most self-destructive war.
read nowWhen the Nazis killed her husband, Mariya Oktyabrskaya killed ’em right back.
read nowIt’s 1861. A plot has been uncovered to assassinate everyone’s favorite top-hatted president, Abraham Lincoln. Who you gonna call? The answer my friends is Kate Warne; trailblazer, spy, and all around Badass Bitch.
read nowLillie Hitchcock Coit was her name and gamblin’ was her game.
read nowHell hath no fury like a woman whose husband got ripped in half by birch trees.
read nowNever send a man to do a woman’s job.
read nowWe don’t have any actual way of proving this, but we’re pretty sure the inspiration for James Bond came from this one-legged, prison-breaking badass bitch.
read nowIt’s almost Mother’s Day, a time when you celebrate the woman who brought you into this world whether you liked it or not.
read nowThis is the story of Violet Jessop, an Irish woman who survived not one, not two, but three of the most catastrophic ship disasters of the 20th century.
read nowTime has revealed that Columbus’ legacy is not one of glory, but of death and destruction. Now, we say it’s time to reveal the legacy of Haitian queen, Anacaona.
read nowAda Lovelace, daughter of famed British poet Lord Byron, was a force to be reckoned with herself. Why? Well, she’s considered to have written the language for the world’s first computer program… all the way back in the 1800s.
read nowFew people today know that a black woman was “barnstorming” her way across America in the 1920s, but they need to.
read nowCleopatra wasn’t just some incredibly beautiful woman hellbent on having affairs with Roman rulers. She was closer to Cersei Lannister: a ruthless military and political leader that Rome was absolutely terrified of.
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By turns both Queen of France and England, Eleanor of Aquitane was beautiful, intelligent, and took no prisoners. We can learn a lot about female leadership from her.
read nowRome wasn’t built in a day. It didn’t fall in a day, either – over centuries, cracks appeared that would eventually splinter the empire’s carefully laid foundation. One of those cracks was a powerful Celtic Queen named Boudica.
read nowIf you think that George Washington or Marquis de Lafayette won the Revolutionary War, think again. The real victors of the American Revolution were spies, one of which was a bad*ss bitch with the moniker “Agent 355.”
read nowBig Alma Spreckels was a big woman with an even bigger story. But who was this larger than life lady who graced the golden gated city by the bay?
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