Dorothea Lange was an American photographer and photojournalist born on May 26, 1895 in Hoboken, New Jersey. Despite her childhood hardships—she contracted polio at age seven and her father abandoned her family at age twelve—she took photography classes in New York City and moved to San Francisco in her early twenties, where she opened a [...]

The effects of aging on body weight have been discussed in recent years, as the life expectancy of our population increases, along rates of diet- and lifestyle-diseases including obesity, type II diabetes, and heart disease. In addition, women’s metabolic rates slow as we age, particularly after menopause.
Luckily, there are foods that help combat this type [...]

Safety Girl sells a lot of stun guns, and they can be great self-defense weapons, but what about the possibility of an attacker being prepared for the volt of your stun gun? Safety Girl’s Cell Phone Stun Gun is the answer to your concerns!
The Cell Phone Stun Gun delivers the ultimate surprise: it looks exactly [...]

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico, to a Hungarian-Jewish father and Mexican mother. Kahlo is famous for her bold and shocking images, many of them self-portraits with bright colors and a flattened, two-dimensional style. Kahlo’s images are said to reflect her unsettled childhood and adult life.  She survived polio during her childhood, [...]

“All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children…. I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.”
–Anne [...]

Aside from skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer afflicting women. Each year 180,000 women are diagnosed with the disease in the United States, and over 40,000 women die as a result.  Breast cancer is found in women of many races, including Caucasians, African Americans, Asians, and Native Americans.  Although the rate of [...]

Although not terribly common, female hair loss is more prevalent than one might think. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, approximately 30 million women suffer from hair loss, and some are as young as fifteen years of age. Female hair loss is a medically diagnosable and treatable problem.  While a normal hair grows about [...]

The Women’s National Basketball Association, or WNBA, played its first season in June 1997 and enters its fourteenth season this year. Although basketball is traditionally a winter/spring sport, the WNBA plays its season during the summer and fall when fewer sports are played.  WNBA games are broadcasted live, and the league has had partnerships with [...]

Cleopatra VII Philopator, the last Egyptian pharaoh, was born in late 69 BC. As a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of one of Alexander the Great’s generals that took control of Egypt.  Although most Ptolemaic rulers spoke Greek for this reason, Cleopatra learned Egyptian and thought of herself as a reincarnation [...]

I’m Nobody! Who are you?
Are you — Nobody — Too?
Then there’s a pair of us!
Don’t tell! they’d advertise — you know!
How dreary — to be — Somebody!
How public — like a Frog –
To tell one’s name — the livelong June –
To an admiring Bog!
–Emily Dickinson
Indeed, Emily Dickinson, born in 1830 in Amherst, Massachusetts, was a [...]