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Women in Switzerland won the right to vote in 1971.

A bikini is usually a women's abbreviated two-piece swimsuit with a bra top for the chest and panties cut below the navel.

What happens when you are the best at what you do, but not beautiful enough...

Many of the doves released at the opening ceremony of the 1988 Seoul Olympics were accidentally roasted alive when the Olympic flame was lit.

At Stalin’s funeral 500 people were trampled to death.

A brilliant mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer, Hypatia was one of the great thinkers of the ancient world (the only woman for whom such a claim can be made). image licence: Public Domain

RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early morning of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New Yor…

When Star Wars came out in 1977, France was still using the guillotine.

You may have thought 1980s perms were huge but Georgian ladies* were the mistresses of big hair.