Women

Ching Shih, who lived and pillaged during the Qing Dynasty, has been called the most successful pirate in history.

A group of Canadian teenagers wrote the first popular text on contraception.

Marm Mandelbaum, the Queen of Fences, turned street rats into professional criminals.

Back in the day, women with bare heads may as well have been naked.

The madams of Puget Sound were spitfire entrepreneurs who lived dangerously and died young.

Perhaps thanks to costume dramas, the modesty-minded side saddle has come back into style.

There's a revolution brewing in that pot of Earl Grey.

Two competitors employ a vocally assaultive technique during the European Armwrestling Championship.

Julian of Norwich wrote "Revelations of Divine Love" based on a series of visions she had in 1373 while isolated in religious observance.

Harriet Quimby and Matilde Moisant were best friends and the first women licensed as pilots in the United States.