They were mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives. But above all these women were warriors. All across time, and all around the globe, they brandished swords and guns, fought battles, and faced off with royalty. Though outnumbered by their bands of brother

Category:Orientalist nude photographs by Lehnert & Landrock - Wikimedia Commons

An etching by François Morellon de La Cave depicting the arrest of Adamites in a public square in Amsterdam (mid-18th century CE). From Wikimedia Commons (Public Domain). Today we're taking a brief look at some hippie heretics of yore known as the Adamites. The 2nd century Christian sect, claimed

antonio-m:L’Intérieur d’atelier (The Studio Interior), by Émile Friant (1863-1932). French painter. oil on panel

I am so terrified.

Music is a powerful thing: It can raise our spirits, carry us through athletic challenges, and make us weep. Its very fabric is a source of power and intrigue, too, since just a measly few tones might do anything from shatter glass to manifest the Devil’s

Theodore Lent carried his wife with him; both alive and dead. Julia Pastrana, who was labeled the "ugliest woman in the world" and would not be buried until she had been dead for more than 150 years.

1908, New Mexico

Reading Sade in the age of #MeToo and Jeffrey Epstein is an uncanny experience, for his novels are also a blueprint for the world of the sexual predators of today.

Paolo Veronese (1528–1588), St. Jerome in the Wilderness, 1566–67. Oil on canvas, 91 × 57 1⁄4 inches, San Pietro Martire, Murano Photo: Ufficio Beni Culturali del Patriarcato di Venezia. NEW YORK, NY .- This fall, The Frick Collection presents a focused...