In an era before producers established censorship guidelines, anything went in Hollywood, including films starring hyper-sexualized toddlers pretending to be prostitutes, drunks, and disparaged veterans....
While in prison for avenging her husband in broad daylight, Pupetta Maresca transformed into a sort of Godmother. By the time she was released, she...
Emma Lazarus was a renowned Jewish-American writer whose most famous poem, ‘The New Colossus,’ is immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. WIkimedia Commons/Getty ImagesEmma Lazarus’...
Queen Anne was the first to rule over a united Britain, but her reign was marred by 17 failed pregnancies and accusations of a lesbian...
Crowned when she was only 18, Marie Antoinette was reviled for buying gowns and diamonds while her kingdom starved. But how much of her reputation...
One historian traced Queen Charlotte’s ancestry to a Moorish mistress through six different bloodlines. Wikimedia CommonsThe queen’s portrait by Allan Ramsay, who was a known...
The scale was between one and five and found that women with the most severe form of endometriosis were generally better looking than women of...
In the 1960s, Ann Atwater could feel the breeze through the cracks in her house’s walls. Then a housing advocate recommended she attend a community...
Shoshana Ovitz survived Auschwitz, where her mother was handed to Dr. Josef Mengele and never seen again. Once liberated, she met the man who became...
Cleopatra’s perfume was so legendary that Marc Antony could supposedly smell the queen from miles away before her ships even arrived on the shores of...
