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

There was a group of five guys who went out in their small whaling boat in Hawaii to fish in 1979. There was a storm, and they never came back. Ten years later, their boat was found on the shore of…

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.

Baphomet is the demonic entity allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templars who later became a symbol for Satanic worship. During the Inquisition of the Templars in the 14th century, the knights were falsely accused of worshipping this figure.