At the height of the Roaring Twenties, the Whittemore Gang targeted banks and jewelry stores across the East Coast, stealing upward of $1 million in diamonds and precious gems (around $15 million ...

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“There is no reason why a woman cannot go wherever a man goes, and further,” explorer Harriet Chalmers Adams said in 1920. “If a woman be fond of travel, if she has love of the strange, the mysterious ...

If highly accomplished Bryn Mawr and Wellesley graduates couldn’t get jobs in the male-dominated sciences in early 20th-century America and Britain, they found another alternative: Board a steamer, ...

Vanessa O'Brien is the first woman to achieve the Explorer's Extreme Trifecta. The 57-year-old woman scaled the peak of Mount Everest, dove 36,000 feet to the deepest point of the Pacific Ocean and ...

March 21 -- Ann Bancroft and Liv Arnesen just spent 94 days pulling 250-pound sledsacross 1,717 miles of the most inhospitable landscape in the world. We’re talking the distance from LA to Chicago, ...

Elise Wortley didn’t set out to be an adventurer. After moving from the Essex countryside to busy London in 2017 when she was in her late 20s and being diagnosed with anxiety, she started going on ...