Last week, rex_dart posted an awesome picture of women firefighters at Pearl Harbor. They've now been identified and contacted!

Found: Identity of the Female Fire Fighters at Pearl Harbor

Just last week we posted an article about this amazing picture of four women wielding a fire hose, understood for years to be a depiction of women firefighters rushing ( Read more... )

A woman known as “the bird lady” is facing criminal charges for feeding the ducks, geese, and pigeons at a local pond.

Eighty-year-old Claire Butcher has been feeding the birds for 45 years at Flax, Sluice, and Goldfish Ponds in Lynn.

But the controversy really began to simmer back in 2009.

At the time, Lynn officials were fed up with Butcher. They ( Read more... )

Deputies refuse to evict 103-year-old woman. Mankind gets temporary redemption.


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98-year old Judo master makes 10th degree black belt. The first woman to achieve this. Ever.


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 In Russian culture, one iconic image is the elderly woman - in Russian, she's called a "babushka" - sitting on a roadside, selling vegetables from her garden.

One group of babushkas from the village of Buranovo, 600 miles east of Moscow, is blowing up that stereotype.

The dozen or so women - mostly in their 70s and 80s - have become a musical ( Read more... )

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Citing cases dating back as far as 1928, a judge has ruled that a young girl accused of running down an elderly woman while racing a bicycle with training wheels on a Manhattan sidewalk two years ago can be sued for negligence ( Read more... )

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For 70 years the Parisian apartment had been left uninhabited, under lock and key, the rent faithfully paid but no hint of what was inside.

( So what WAS behind the door? )