Even then, the naked dress wasn't exactly new. In the 1920s, Josephine Baker shocked audiences with her barely-there performance ensembles. Marilyn Monroe wore her famous nude-colored, ...

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Designed by French architect Louis Gilbert in the 1890s, the 12-bedroom villa—dubbed Le Beau Chêne—features elaborate Louis XIII-style stone and brickwork with turrets, Juliet balconies, and a ...

November is a month well known for being a transition month on the Great Lakes. Powerful storms, intense winds, arctic air and even bursts of warmth all play a role in creating the tumbler of weather ...

Villa Beau-Chêne, the 12-bedroom Parisian mansion where dancer and activist Josephine Baker made her home in the 1930s and ’40s, is on the market for €20.84 million (US$24.45 million). Baker, the ...

Hemingway called her “the most sensational woman anybody ever saw.” If you read any well-informed account of the life of le tout Paris between the wars, you’ll almost certainly run across her name.

A whispered warning, a stunned senator, and a nation transformed — the inside story of Gough Whitlam’s dramatic 1975 dismissal. Peter Baume was sitting in the Senate's red leather backbenches when the ...

Where does an artist who sculpts history’s most prominent women start? “The heart is where I begin,” says Loveland sculptor Jane DeDecker. “Sometimes I'll even layer that area so that you can kind of ...