Helloooo, October! The pumpkins are out and the spooky month arrives with plenty of excitement in the air. Last weekend's Tallahassee Film Festival drew big crowds and costumed fans packed into "Rocky ...

After braving political chaos, major train disruptions and threats of defecating in the Seine, the Paris Olympics are finally about to kick off under cloudy skies. Years in the making, this opening ...

From Denmark to Azerbaijan, Germany to Georgia, Russia to the United Kingdom, swathes of Europe established at least limited voting rights for women in the 1910s. Finland enfranchised women even ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For a lot of people, mention of the French Revolution conjures up images of wealthy nobles being led to the guillotine. Thanks to ...

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“I killed one man to save 100,000,” Charlotte Corday allegedly claimed during her trial for the grisly assassination of the revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat. Disillusioned with the radical and violent ...

She fought to give women the right to divorce and campaigned on behalf of children born out of wedlock. But in late 18th century France, her radical thinking proved too much for her contemporaries in ...

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More than 500 people guillotined during the French Revolution may have been buried in the walls of this 19th-century chapel. Photo by Elise Hardy / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Historians have long ...

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In a new series, we look at under-acknowledged women through the ages. Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village south of Liège in modern Belgium. From a ...