December 12, 2014 Hundreds Of Armed Women Defend Mexican City From Cartels In the words of an armed mother of two: "Women are brave and we are capable of defending our town."
December 11, 2014 Miss Sanderson’s womanly art of parasol self-defense In Edwardian London, female suffragists regularly put themselves at risk of violence in their protests. In response, one developed a rather unique martial arts style.
December 11, 2014 in Modern Worthies Margaret Hamilton Lead software designer, Apollo missions Hamilton's work prevented an abort of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Hamilton coined the term "software engineering." Hamilton was a badass.
RP Theatre Rejected Princesses Theatre: La Maupin’s Guide to Online Dating In which Julie "La Maupin" d'Aubigny gives some stellar love life advice. Well, some love life advice. Uh. Let's just go with advice.
December 9, 2014 In 1911, Albert Einstein Told Marie Curie To Ignore The Trolls New correspondence was recently found from Einstein to Marie Curie, in which he told her, in so many words, that "haters gon' hate." Preach it, Albert.
December 9, 2014 in Modern Worthies Phylis Latour Doyle The spy who defeated Nazis with hairbands From A Mighty Girl: Wartime spy finally accepts she is a French heroine – Telegraph At age 23, British secret agent Phyllis Latour Doyle parachuted into occupied Normandy in May 1944 to gather intelligence on Nazi positions in preparation for D-Day. As an agent for the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), Doyle secretly relayed 135... Read more »
December 8, 2014 in Community, Corrections Inuit Assassin’s Creed: continued! Ever thought that Inuit (or Mi'kmaq, or Inupiat) clothing is awesome? This is the post for you.
December 5, 2014 in Modern Worthies Umm Abdu Aleppo's Embattled Nurse This pistol-packing medic refuses to abandon her war-torn city. “Getting justice from this war has become a personal jihad for me,” she admits. “I can’t work without it [the gun] any more.”
December 4, 2014 Princess Rap Battles A YouTube rap battle series starring famous princesses - this one is Galadriel versus Leia. Starts slow, but some good stuff starting in the second verse.