Dame avec des Fleurs (Lady With Flowers) Leopold Schmutzler
From the unflappable flappers to the Black Is Beautiful women to the hats and dresses of hard working designers, black women have influenced American fashion in fabulous ways. 10 Fashionable Black Women Mildred Blount Source
Japanese women in the Japanese Garden at the 1904 World's Fair. Photograph by Jessie Tarbox Beals, 1904. Missouri History Museum Photographs and Prints collection. Louisiana Purchase Exposition. n16150.
While he was busy snapping the upper echelons of society, the late Patrick Litchfield also had his lens fixed on the female figure.
James Bond would never have made a great spy because too many of his enemies knew his identity. Great spies are anonymous—as any fule kno. They carry out their work covertly. Only their handlers know of their existence and their stealthy actions. At her trial for espionage in 1917, the dancer and courtesan Mata Hari was described by her accusers as “perhaps the greatest woman spy of the century.” She was charged by the French of spying for the Germans during First World War. It was alleged her cunning double-dealing had been responsible for the deaths of at least some 50,000 soldiers. Her actions were denounced as unmitigated evil. Her liberated sexuality deemed a cover for her career as a spy and worse—a threat to the moral substance of the honorable French people. In truth, the French were shitting themselves. Their country had been invaded by Germany. They were dependent on the Allies to defend their homeland and defeat the might of the invading German army. If this weren’t humiliating enough—after the failure of the Nivelle offensive in 1917, there was widespread mutiny among the French troops. It looked as though France was about to capitulate under the...
New details point to the identity of the sleeping woman in the saffron gown.
“When you talk to a sympathetic mind about technology, gender, age and experience disappear completely.”
Tuareg women can have more than one sexual partner outside their marriage.
Julia Cameron, Rosebud Garden of Girls, 1868
Richard Rhodes The fascinating story of a Hollywood-starlet-turned-inventor whose radio system for remote-controlling torpedoes laid the foundations for technologies like wifi and Bluetooth. But her...
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Reading, detail (1860). Ferdinand Max Bredt (1860–1921). Though little known today, Ferdinand Max Bredt was widely recognized in his lifetime for his Orientalist works. Indeed, two of these, inspired...
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The most popular tarot deck in the western world was illustrated by a queer woman who is often ignored in esoteric history and omitted from the deck itself. Read about how awesome she is here!
When China invaded her native land, this would-be monk put down her pacifist dreams and took up arms.
The classic Victorian arcades are one of the jewels in the city's crown and are known around the world. These brilliant pictures show how they've changed over a century and more
batsbrains: “ alluringalliteration: “ jnautilid: “ Julie D’Aubigny was a 17th-century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who killed or wounded at least ten men in life-or-death duels,...
50 Women From All Around The World Who Are Known Internationally For Their Stunning Beauty
