This post has received a big update for 2024, with several new players added, along with the removal of a number of players whose careers have petered out into obscurity. We have also updated many pictures to more recent ones so you can see if they’re ageing like fine wine. Enjoy. Co...
According to the paper, hurricanes with female names lead to the same estimates regarding danger as unnamed hurricanes. Doesn’t this mean it’s not that women are taken lightly, but rather that a hurricane associated with a male name is taken as more dangerous? It’s the fear of men/male...
Dorothy Maud Wrinch (12 September 1894 – 11 February 1976; married names Nicholson, Glaser) was a mathematician and biochemical theorist best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure...
Alexandra wants one thing: to train with her sword, never mind the outraged public. But when the achingly handsome Monsieur Philippe kisses her, she finds herself willing to give up her heart and even her blade to be with him. That is, until she learns Philippe took another woman to bed...
Reaching FEWs with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services has been difficult because of their hidden and stigmatized nature. Mobile-phone-based interventions may be an effective way to reach this population and connect them with the existing services. This article describes study design and ...
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the Nationalists starting planning armed revolution. On October 30, 1950, Blanca and others took up arms which she had stored in her home and marched into the town of Jayuya, taking over the police station, burning down the post office, cutting the telephone wires, and raising the Puerto Ri...
names of Maud Powell, Marie Hall, and Michele Auclair. As for the fact that it is "hard to get recordings", it really isn't. The recordings just haven't been well-publicized, usually because they're printed on small niche labels, or haven't been released on disc, period. With the ...
Building people’s self-power ‘from the ground up’, to increase positivity in the world, starting with the people in her country, describes Swamini’s understanding of her role as the female Śaṅkarācāryā of Nepal. In a televised interview with a Nepali journalist that was broadcast...
Starting from then, women accused of witchcraft were burned at the stake all over Poland (but not as often in comparison with the other parts of Europe). However, the first performances by Chór Kobiet (Women’s Choir, later renamed as The Witches’ Choir) gained huge popularity. Women ...