Some families will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. In the background of history’s most devastating wars and economical crises stand the ambitions and thirst for power of influential families that called the shots. People, governments and even countries were pawns that they played to mold human civilization as we know it. 10. Nehru-Gandhi…
Author: Octavia Drughi
“Behind every great man there’s an even greater woman.” No one knows the exact origins of this saying, but it applies throughout history. Behind the scenes, women played aggressive roles in violent revolutions and uprisings. It was a young woman who struck the marching drum and led the Women’s March on Versailles in 1789, joined…
“Well-behaved women seldom make history” (Laurel Thatcher Ulrich). Black widows, purveyors of poisons, and bloodthirsty female serial killers who served venom on a silver platter play the leading roles in the following stories of misandry and fortune hunting Poisons have been around since the dawn of time. Locusta, the world’s first documented serial killer and…
Oh, love. The eternal enigma… and such a drag. Mastering the art of seduction and a certain sexual open mindedness were required of royal mistresses, while virtue beyond all doubt was demanded of princesses and queens. A king without a mistress was weak, a cheating queen was a traitor. The power of their sex was…
Was there really a time when the Earth was ruled by giants and dragons, working their sorcery on the land, fighting for supremacy and leaving such a mess behind? Could aliens have visited these realms and exploited them for some cunning purposes? Sure, scientists did manage to find plausible explanations for the world’s unearthly landscapes.…