Few women would have worn masks like the otherwise historically accurate one sported by Wonder Woman villain Doctor Poison. However, many of them were created by a woman—an American sculptor named Anna Coleman Ladd.
It was 100 years ago this very night that something miraculous happened along the Western Front. After months of bitter fighting, soldiers on both sides gathered in no-man's-land in a spontaneous show of peace and goodwill. Here's what happened on that historic day — and why it marked the end of an era.
If the Dashwood sisters can find true love and Mr. Darcy can inspire a whole industry of erotic fanfiction, reading Jane Austen might really be the best thing to soothe one’s addled mind and remind us all that, sometimes, people really have adorable double marriages and miraculously recover from mysterious fevers. …
We always assumed that Hitler had no children, but there's new evidence that appears to show that the world's least popular man had sex with a French teenager and fathered a son back in 1918. The supposed son, a man named Jean-Marie Loret, wrote an autobiography back in 1981 called Your Father's Name Was Hitler, but…
You might have noticed British celebrities and politicians sporting red flower pins over the past few days — even Julian Assange wore one. Allow us to explain what they're all about.
This 1919 photo shows a Girl Scout harvesting crops near Washington D.C. During World War I, the Woman's Land Army of America brought more than 20,000 city women to rural areas to replace male farm workers.
We love these rarely seen images of women working for the war effort during World War I in London and America. Here's a spirited look at some of our favorites.
[Brighton, England; July 30. Image via Getty]
Why haven't we heard more about the WWI-era Woman's Land Army of America?
A woman believed to be the last female World War I veteran, Gladys Powers, has died in British Columbia at the age of 109. A tomboy, at 15 the British-born Powers lied about her age and joined the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, later moving to the RAF as a barracks waitress. Clearly an indomitable lady, Mrs. Powers…
