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Raising Dion
It's not often that comic books get trailers, but these both look interesting.
RP on Refinery29!
Refinery29's piece on the RP book reveals the illustrations for several of the book-only entries, including by far the most elaborate one of all.
Cree Summer
Summer has a career as a voice actor that spans over three decades and well over 200 roles. Chances are you've heard speak some lines before.
Fabiola Gianotti
The former project leader of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson has been promoted to director-general of CERN, the first woman to hold that position.
The discovery of the "breast cancer gene" has a hell of a backstory
Mary-Claire King (covered here previously) tells a tale of divorce, burglary, cancer, and Joe DiMaggio that must be experienced.
Victorian-era female archers had style
Found a bunch of pictures of Victorian-era female archers. Thought I'd share.
Missed in History podcast on Vera Peters
The Missed in History podcast does an in-depth investigation into Modern Worthy Vera Peters - worth checking out!
RP on Bustle!
The RP book got covered by Bustle!
Kung-fu nuns bicycle to oppose human trafficking
The Drupka nuns are embarking on a 2500-kilometer bicycle trek to raise awareness about human trafficking, which increased a lot after the 2015 earthquakes.
Random Princesses
Ada Blackjack
The lone survivor of an ill-fated scientific expedition, this Inuit woman persevered for two years on a remote arctic island in order to get money to treat her ill son.
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Spirited poetry-spouting princess who lived an audacious life and put her cheating lover on blast with her expert slam poetry.
Kate Shelley
To save an oncoming passenger train, this 15-year-old girl climbed across a collapsing bridge, with nothing but flashes of lightning to keep her from falling to her death in the flooding river below -- a river that had already killed her father.
Mandukhai Khatun
Destined to be a mere political pawn, this Mongol queen rode into battle while pregnant, united the warring tribes, and was considered to be the second coming of Genghis Khan.
Anacaona
When Columbus and his crew ravaged her land, this native Haitian poet gave all to keep the peace.
Emmeline Pankhurst
This unassuming middle-aged woman became one of Britain's most notorious terrorists in her unyielding quest to win women the right to vote.
Ching Shih
Headed a squadron of 80,000 pirates, ruled the Chinese seas for two decades, and actually retired happily - but not before extorting a nice pension from the Chinese government.
Mata Hari
This amateur dancer escaped a life of abuse by pretending to be an Indonesian princess - and eventually became a victim of the maniacal world of espionage.
Mother Lu
When a government magistrate unjustly killed her son, this unassuming middle-aged wife spent years raising an army to topple that same government.
Angela Jimenez
Tomboy, daughter, spy, soldier, foster mom, innkeeper, gold miner, nurse, activist; veteran: Angela Jimenez doesn't need a movie so much as a mini-series.