List of some of my favorite Wikipedia pages

List of Mass Panic Cases (folie a duex and mass psychosis) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_panic_cases

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List of Bank Robbers and Bank Robberies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_robbers_and_robberies

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List of Prison Escapes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prison_escapes

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FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI_Ten_Most_Wanted_Fugitives

• Ryan Wedding (Olympic Snowboarder turned drug lord): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Wedding

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The Weather Underground (Leftist revolutionary group associated with the Black Panthers who robbed the FBI and took documents related to COINTELPRO: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground#COINTELPRO     

• Bernadine Dohrne (leader of the Weather Underground, remained a fugitive until 1980 when she turned herself in): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardine_Dohrn

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1996 Everest Disaster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster

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Anchoresses (Women who seclude themselves from society for religious reasons): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchorite

• Julian of Norwich: medieval anchoress and Christian writer/poet:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_of_Norwich
• Margery Kempe: met Julian of Norwich and considered the first author of an autobiography in the English language: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Kempe

Anchoresses are so interesting to me because of their subversion of gender roles through their writings and preaching within the confines of Christianity. Their importance as spiritual leaders was strengthened in part by their emotional worship practices such as wailing and crying-- while hysteria has often been considered a negative quality of women, their physical enactment of their faith was perceived as a sign of their closeness to God.

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Incroyables and Merveilleuses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incroyables_and_merveilleuses

Riveting style and subculture that came out of the French Revolution from 1795-1799. For anyone interested in fashion, the styles for women included extremely sheer linen and gauze dresses often worn with no undergarments, often dampened to increase transparency. They also carried tiny bags called reticules that looked like tiny chainmail pouches. Relatives of those who lost parents to the guillotine would attend "bals de victemes" and often wore red ribbons around their neck to symbolize the macabre death of beheading, and instead of curtsying would mimic beheading by running their pointer finger across their neck.

I will make a longer post about this because I have too much to say!

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List of Books Bound in Human Skin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_bound_in_human_skin

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Paris Green (poisonous green pigment used in wallpaper, dresses, books, etc): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_bound_in_human_skin

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The Hope Diamond (45 carat blue diamond said to curse anyone who owns it): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Diamond#Curse_mythology

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Hedy Lamarr: Austrian and American film star and inventor who discovered the radio technologies that aided Axis powers in transmitting secure radio communications which are the basis for modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr