In September 1838, forty-four-year-old aristocrat Henriette d’Angeville stood atop Mont Blanc as the second woman in…
Kategoria: Forgotten Women
Andromachi Papanikolaou. Woman who saved millions of lives
Medical history knows many examples of scientists conducting experiments on their own bodies. Less often, however,…
Maria Anna of Austria. Governor of Austrian Netherlands
Maria Anna of Austria was born in 1718 as the daughter of Emperor Charles VI of…
Anna Maria van Schurman. Icon of women’s emancipation
In the mid-17th century in Protestant Holland, women had no access to university education. However, in…
Fatemeh Hamami. An Artist Unstoppable by Disability
Fatemeh Hammami Nasrabadi came into the world on February 1, 1989, as the second of twin…
Eunice Newton Foote. A Forgotten Scientist
On a summer day in 1856 in Albany, New York, the tenth annual conference of the…
Mrs. Röntgen’s hand. The first X-ray image in history
In late autumn of 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen conducted a series of experiments with a…
Masha and Dasha: The Tragic Story
Maria and Daria Krivoshlyapova, known as Masha and Dasha, came into the world on January 3,…
Why Mukhina was paralyzed before the Olympics
In July 1980, just two weeks before the Olympic Games in Moscow, Soviet gymnast Elena Mukhina…
Vesna Vulović’s Guinness record: what really happened?
In January 1972, twenty-one-year-old flight attendant Vesna Vulović survived a fall from an altitude of over…