58th Issue: Cannibals and Child Soldiers
Warning for cannibalism, murder, rape and suicide. I’m kind of in a cranky mood tonight, so here are two kind of depressing stories. The first is about...
57th Issue: Natacha Rambova
Content warning for statutory rape, and domestic violence. Natacha Rambova was born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy on January 19, 1897, in Salt Lake City,...
56th Issue: L. Frank Baum, Maud Baum, and Matilda Gage
Just FYI before I start, I mention some pretty racist statements a historical figure made about Native Americans in this issue. If you would like to skip...
55th Issue: The Kowloon Walled City
Perhaps you knew about it, but I did not know about the Kowloon Walled City. It was located in Hong Kong, and was formed in 1898. By 1990, over fifty...
54th Issue: Action Dads and Spunky Daughters
I was watching a movie on Netflix called Project Power the other day, and it has a teenage girl who is taken under the wing of two father figures – one who...
53rd Issue: Ernest Perron
My apologies for this issue being quite short, but rest assured there is more coming. I just found this guy's Wikipedia page and thought it was really...
52nd Issue: Edgardo Mortara and Maria Hertogh
Hello! I hope you are dealing with social distancing, self isolation, or quarantine as best as you can! I am doing alright myself so I hope you are the same....
51st Issue: Gender Verification in Sports
This issue of the newsletter will discuss with a controversial topic (which shouldn’t be controversial, as the obvious answer is that it is bad and should be...
50th Issue: The Soong Sisters
Hi! Today I am going to tell you about the Soong sisters. They’re pretty famous so you may already know about them, but I didn’t, so I am going to assume...
49th Issue: The Canterbury Female Boarding School
Today’s issue of the newsletter is about a school for young girls in the mid 1800s in Canterbury, Connecticut. A local Quaker teacher, Prudence Crandall, was...
48th Issue: The Garman Sisters
Today we are going to learn about the Garman sisters. I will discuss the three of them – Mary, Kathleen and Lorna. They lived in London at the turn of the...
47th Issue: The 1904 Summer Olympics
I have many half-written newsletter articles but none that have been finished! My apologies! I have been busy with many things! However, right now, I would...
46th Issue: Tippi Hedren and the Making of Roar
Antonio Banderas gave an interview yesterday in which he said that his stepdaughter, Dakota Johnson (best known for Fifty Shades of Grey) called him Paponio...
45th Issue: Fandom Drama
Lately the news is depressing so let’s talk about stuff that is a lot lighter and sillier. Let’s talk about fandom. I feel like most people who are reading...
44th Issue: Lesley Gore
Lesley Sue Goldstein, better known as Lesley Gore, was a singer known for “It’s My Party” and “You Don’t Own Me”, as a teenager in the 1960s. She also worked...
43rd Issue: Mary Seymour, Montague Summers, and Googie Architecture
Hello! Today is a grab bag of three random people and concepts that I found while browsing Wikipedia that were not long enough for their own issue. Enjoy!...
42nd Issue: Frederick Russel Burnham and Stephanie St. Clair
This issue of the newsletter is about two people who had extremely different lives, though both were fascinating, at least to me. Please be warned that the...
41st Issue: Santa Muerte and Jewish Parachutists
If you don’t know Santa Muerte, you are about to. Her full name is Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte . She is a folk saint in Mexican Catholicism. She is the...
40th Issue: Classic Disney Stars
My apologies, this issue may be a little shorter than usual, but I will make up for it by writing another one sooner rather than letting a whole month go by!...
Thirty Ninth Issue: Marie Equi
Marie Equi was the first publicly known lesbian on the West Coast of the United States. Marie was born in 1872, and was one of the first doctors in the...