Sylvia Rose
Poppaea Sabina: Child Bride to Roman Empress
Poppaea Sabina is a beautiful, ambitious woman embroiled in the plots and schemes of Imperial Rome. She manipulates her way to the bed of...
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Sylvia Rose
Jun 36 min read
Women Scientists of the Ancient World
Women scientists work wonders in the ancient world. Science in history includes astrology, astronomy, medicine, alchemy, chemistry,...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 264 min read
Screaming Swiss Spirit: Pfaffenkellnerin
Pfaffenkellnerin means "parson's waitress". She's the housekeeper of a parish priest before the Protestant Reformation. Screaming and...
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Sylvia Rose
Apr 74 min read
Fänggen (Fangga): Man-Eaters of Tyrol
Fänggen are fearsome female tree spirits who dwell in the alpine forests of Tyrol, Austria, between Germany and Italy. Giants as big as...
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Sylvia Rose
Feb 183 min read
Eye of Ra Egypt - Wrath of the Woman
Anger of the Eye of Ra blazes across storming skies and battlefields. She burns the crops of evil men and punishes those who seed...
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Sylvia Rose
Nov 15, 20234 min read
Sobekneferu - Queen of the Pharaohs
The first female Pharoah, Sobekneferu (Neferusobek) reigns in the mid-18th century BCE. Her name means 'beauty of Sobek', a reference to...
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Sylvia Rose
Nov 13, 20235 min read
Puduhepa - Queen of the Hittites
Puduḫepa ( Puduḫepa, Pudu-Kheb ) takes her job as Queen seriously. In the 13th century BCE she rules beside her husband, Hattusili III,...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 25, 20234 min read
Spiritual Alchemy - Attuning the Self
Spiritual alchemy is a set of methods using mental processes, colors, phases, archetypes, integration, practical application and...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 19, 20233 min read
Women of Alchemy - Mary the Jewess
Mary the Jewess, Maria the Jewess or Maria Prophetissa is considered the world's first alchemist. Working in Alexandria, Egypt, she's...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 19, 20233 min read
Cleopatra the Alchemist of Alexandria
Cleopatra the Alchemist is an intriguing figure in the hazy history of science and magic. She works and writes in the 3rd or 4th...
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Sylvia Rose
Oct 8, 20234 min read
Sun Goddess: Creator to Cannibal Myths Australia
The Sun Goddess or Sun Woman is a creator, mother goddess, fertility deity or solar divinity in myths and lore of Indigenous Australia....
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Sylvia Rose
Sep 3, 20233 min read
Angel of Long Point - Abigail Becker
Many seamen would have perished without the courage of Abigail Becker. Besides raising fourteen children in a trapper's cabin, she waded...
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Sylvia Rose
Aug 28, 20233 min read
Pioneering German Women - Anita Augspurg
Daughter of a lawyer, Anita Augspurg (1857 - 1943) was one of the foremost advocates of women's rights in Germany. The late nineteenth...
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Sylvia Rose
Aug 20, 20232 min read
Famous Women Inventors - Anna Connelly
Anna Connelly saved countless lives when she invented and patented the first modern fire escape in 1877. After the Civil War, Americans...
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Sylvia Rose
Aug 1, 20234 min read
Great 19th Century German Woman Artists
Women artists of the late nineteenth century include Elisabet Ney, Anna Peters and Dora Hitz. In the youthful German Empire women's...
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Sylvia Rose
Jun 9, 20234 min read
19th Century: Home Gym, Bicycles, Antiseptic
The home gym, antiseptic, bicycles and Bunsen burners all emerge in the 19th century . European engineers, scientists, physicians and...
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Sylvia Rose
May 17, 20233 min read
3 Great German Artists for Art Lovers
Here are three amazing German artists everyone should know. Franz Marc is a founder of German expressionism. Käthe Kollwitz depicts war...
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