The figure of Marlene Dietrich continues to fascinate for decades. This German actress, who became a…
Kategoria: Famous Women
Abigail Powers Fillmore: U.S. First Lady
In 1819, twenty-one-year-old teacher Abigail Powers stood before a classroom at New Hope Academy and looked…
Hattie McDaniel. First Black woman with an Oscar
In February 1940, the twelfth Academy Awards ceremony took place at the exclusive Ambassador Hotel in…
Oldest woman in world. What María Branyas ate
From January 2023 to August 2024, María Branyas Morera held the title of the oldest person…
Oriini Kaipara. Breakthrough in Māori television
On a Monday evening in January 2022, millions of viewers in New Zealand witnessed a historic…
Who was Gwenllian, symbol of Welsh freedom?
In 12th-century Wales, women rarely stood at the head of armies. Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd was an…
Why Did the Qajar Princess Have Mustaches?
An old photograph from 1884 is causing a storm online today. It shows a woman with…
Elizabeth Freeman. The first who defeated the system
When residents of Sheffield, Massachusetts celebrated the adoption of a declaration about the equality of all…
Nona Gaprindashvili. The true queen of chess
When a twenty-one-year-old chess player from Georgia defeated the Soviet world champion in 1962, few suspected…
Barbara Hutton. America’s richest orphan
When Barbara Hutton was born in 1912, she was one of America’s wealthiest heiresses. When she…