The Lady Of The Engine Room: Victoria Drummond, Britain’s First Woman Marine Engineer
It is August 25, 1940, and the Panamanian ship Bonita, sailing alone in war-torn waters with its cargo of clay bound for the United States, is suddenly attacke...
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Chronicler Of The Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys Of Isabella Bird
As Isabella Bird, in her seventieth year and in the middle of her last great adventure, sat across from Sultan at Marrakesh, telling him tales of her adve...
What You Should Know About Mary Shelley On Frankenstein Friday
A celebration of the legacy of Frankenstein and an homage to its WYSKy creator, author Mary Shelley....
One Woman Against The Black Death: The Saga Of Dr. Edith Pechey-Phipson And The Fight For Medical Women in India
In 1896, the city of Bombay recorded its first case of bubonic plague, a disease which would grow to claim ten million lives over the following decade as the g...
Jeanne Baret: The Two Stories Of The World’s First Woman To Circumnavigate The Globe
Told one way, the story of Jeanne Baret is an essentially inspiring tale: a woman born a peasant, raised with the expectation of seeing nothing more in her lif...
Florence Bascom: The Many Facets Of Geology’s “Stone Lady”
There is a special poetry in rocks available to a select few and utterly incomprehensible to absolutely everybody else. While ninety-nine pairs of eyes o...
Paola Prestini And The Birth of Classical Music’s New Way Forward
Picture a composer.What you've probably brought to mind is an image of a tortured soul, locked away in a dim attic, quill in trembling hand, trying despera...
13-Year-Old Artist Pays Tribute To RBG, Creates Digital Collage Portrait Using Eight Of Her Acrylic Paintings
Today, September 25, 2020, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020), a true American hero, lies in state at the U.S...
Gertrude Bell, Byzantine Archaeology, And The Founding Of Iraq
The art of Strenuous Living is one we usually associate with the generation of nervous over-achievers who grew up after the US Civil War, during the age that s...