Mary Kingsley was born #onthisday (October 13th) in 1862. Her parents died when she turned thirty, and she used her inheritance of £4300...

Latifa Nabizade (born in1969) is one of the first two women pilots in Afghanistan, who qualified to fly a Mi-17 helicopter. The other was...

Elizabeth Gaskell was born today (September 29th) in 1810. Her novel, North and South is one of my favourite novels, though innate...