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Today, Mental Floss presents a list of five of history's famous "Scorned Women." They are defined rather loosely as: the white hooker who got African-American boxer Jack Johnson sent to jail, British tribal queen Boudicca, Lady Mao, Roman Queen Herodias, and this shape-shifter from Pueblo legend. Besides being kind of a crap list (I mean, I can think of better avengers off the top of my head - hell, off the top of Bullfinch's Mythology- and being raped by Roman soldiers doesn't really count as being 'scorned,' MentalFloss) it's rather annoying to see the old highly emotional, unstable, irrational woman saw trotted out. And I know it should piss me off, but the truth is, whenever I read about some badass historical scorned woman (see Medea, left, and no, Tricia Walsh-Smith, you do not qualify), I get a little warm feeling of pride. Because in my considered, this is actually one of the few historical cases in which women come out quite unilaterally on top. More »
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• Uh oh! Yet another fashion thief is on the prowl, and this time he is targeting Victoria Beckham. Posh's dressing room was ransacked and two pairs of shoes costing $11,500 each, as well as a red silk Roberto Cavalli robe saying "Mrs. Beckham" on the front and "Posh" on the back were amongst the stolen goods. We're picturing some fashion larceny version of Antiques Roadshow wherein the thief's great-nephew finds out his gay uncle's shoes once retailed for $11,500... [Page Six]

Officials with London Fashion week will begin doing "spot checks" on models' health starting with the Fall 2008 shows, which start in London on February 15. Auditors will be hired to be on the lookout for drugs, girls under the age of 16, and health certificates claiming that they're not like anorexic or whatever. [WWD, sub req'd]

Natalie Portman, being the good little indie hipster intellectual that she is, will be designing a line of vegan shoes for label Te Casan. [Sassybella] More »
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