Oppression is one of history's most depressing constants, and absolute power is known to corrupt absolute. Queens are not immune to this truth, as evidenced by the ruthless reigns of history's most cruel queens. These are the worst queens in history, who between them are charged with unnamab...
The arc of this history begins in 1892, the year Charles-Émile Reynaud first used his Théâtre Optique system to screen his moving pictures — to our mind, the first animated cartoons ever produced — for the public (and long after the invention of the magic lantern). From there, we ...
According to a New York Times article, almost forty neighbors witnessed the event of Kitty Genovese being savagely attacked and murdered in Queens, New York in 1964, but not one neighbor called the police for help. Some reports state that the attacker briefly left the scene and later returned...
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Isabella I is considered to be one of the most powerful, yet controversial, queens in Spanish history. She is best remembered for sponsoring Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Western Hemisphere, initiating the Spanish Inquisition, and unifying the remaining independent Spanish kingdoms into one na...
If you look at some of the most legendary witches in history, from the enchantresses of ancient mythic lore to real witches that walked the earth, a pattern emerges: the invocation of the primal. They preside over the the darkness, the moon, death, and rebirth. They collude with the eart...
Hayek was ranked fourth in The Hollywood Reporter’s Latino Power 50 starting in July 2007, a list of the most influential members of the Latin community in Hollywood. In the same month, Hayek was called a “sexy celebrity” in a poll of 3,000 men and women; the poll found that “65...
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