Women

Amy Johnson is presumed to have died in 1941. There are still unanswered questions about what really happened to her. — During WWII, British women were banned from being pilots in the army. Army officials believed that it was immoral to put women in dangerous situations. Although no British women were fighter pilots, there were female pilots who contributed to the British war effort. They worked for an organization called the…

Her husband laughed at her fears and ultimately went down with the “unsinkable” ship There is a tragic figure in Greek mythology, Cassandra, a Trojan priestess who had the gift of telling the future and the curse of never being believed. One could say that Esther Hart, a second-class passenger…

One man reacts to the imposition of outstretching of arms. — I spent this past weekend at a concert series a few hours north of where I live. The folks I attended with are part of a sizeable group of friends. We would get together in the mornings and have coffee and mimosas. The morning after the first night, we were…