Episode 5: Dames a Pirating

Lai Choi San and Grace O'Malley: Pirates. Need we say more?

      

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Further Reading:

Lai Choi San

I Sailed With Chinese Pirates, written by American journalist, Aleko Lilius. Oxford University Press. (1930)

Grace O'Malley

Ireland's Pirate Queen, The True Story of Grace O'Malley by Anne Chambers 

Pirate Queen, the life of Grace O'Malley by Judith Cook

The Pirate Queen: In Search of Grace O'Malley and other Legendary Women of the Sea by Barbara Sjoholm

Music: Dim Allentown Cove Pt. 1 by Humanwine

Episode 4: Dames of Espionage

Virginia Hall and Melita Norwood: Wily spies.

Norwood in her cottage garden in Bexleyheath, England after finally being exposed as a top KGB atom spy.

*Apologies on the audio quality, not as up to par as the others, had the wrong setting on when recording.*





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Further Reading:


Virginia Hall
"The Wolves at the Door : The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy" Judith L. Pierson (2005) The Lyons Press
The People of the CIA: Virginia Hall 
"The Women who lived for danger" Marcus Binney (2003) Harper Collins


Melita Norwood
"Mistresses of Mayhem: The Book of Women Criminals." Francine Hornberger (2002) page 161.
"The Spy Who Came in from the Co-op." David Burke. (Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2008)
Overview of the Melita Norwood papers
Melita Norwood: The Intelligence Officer's Bookshelf
A brief history of the family of Mrs. Letty Norwood (March 2000) The Melita Norwood Papers.




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Music: Nina Simone - Feeling Good

Hacker Girl Scout?! Hell Yeah

Wow, I thought I was cool for a Girl Scout just cuz all we wanted to do was camp, listen to Green Day, and drink IBC root beer. I had, and let's face it, have nothing on this girl. Cyfi, I salute you!

Oh. Spies will be up soon. Lindsay, like Scruffy, has a schedule conflict. Then Pirates!

Episode 3: Dames Grotesquerie

Mary Shelley and Flannery O'Connor: Innovators of grotesque, macabre and religious literature; science-fiction.

**O'Connor with her cherished peacocks in Millidgeville, Georgia.**

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Further Reading:
Flannery O'Connor:
"O'Connor Collected Works." Library Classics of the United States, Inc., New York. (1988)
"O'Connor Letters." published by Regina O'Connor by arrangement with Farrar, Straus and Giroux.          (1979)
"Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor." by Brad Gooch. (2009)
"Flannery O'Connor: A Life." by Jean W. Cash (2002)
For O'Connor's cartoons: http://www.gcsu.edu/flannerycartoons/
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-498


Mary Shelley
"Mary Shelley" by Miranda Seymour
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley with critical essays
"The Last Man" by Mary Shelley
"Lives of the Most Eminent French Writers" by Mary Shelley
Cabinet Cyclopedia Volumes: 
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of Italy, Spain and Portugal, I, II,III 
(For Italy, Shelley Wrote : Petrarch, Boccaccio, Lorenzo de'Medici, Marsiglio Ficino, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Angelo Poliziano, Bernardo Pulci, Luca Pulci, Luigi Pulci, Cieco Da Ferrara, Burchiello, Bojardo, Berni, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Vittoria Colonna, Guarini, Chiabrera, Tassoni, Marini, Filicaja, Metastasio, Goldoni, Alfieri, Monti, and Ugo Foscolo. For Spain and Portugal, she wrote all but Ercilla.)
Lives of the Most Eminent Literary and Scientific Men of France, I, II  
(Shelley wrote:Montaigne, Corneille, Rochefoucauld, Molière, Pascal, Madame de Sévigné, Boileau, Racine, Fénelon, Voltaire, Rousseau, Condorcet, Mirabeau, Madame Roland, and Madame de Staël)


Music: Bottom Below by Holly Golightly



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Episode 2: Dames of Incest and Political Prowess

Agrippina the Younger and Queen Semiramis of Assyria/Babylon: Political savoir faire; incest

**Semiramis is said to be the inspiration for the
Starbucks symbol and the statue of liberty.**

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Further Reading:

Queen Semiramis: 
"The Two Babylons" by Alexander Hislop (1853). 
"Famous Women" by Giovanni Boccaccio (1361). 
Pergamon Museum Babylon: Myth and Truth 
The Legend of Semiramis
Semiramis - Queen of Babylon
*For more about the myth of Semiramis (Shamiran) here's an enlightening video 


Agrippina the Younger:
Agrippina: Sex, Power and Politics in the Early Roman Empire by Anthony A Barrett
Representing Agrippina: Constructions of Female Power in the Early Roman Empire by Judith Ginsburg
Annals by Tacitus
The Women of the Caesars by Guglielmo Ferrero 
Twelve Caesars by Suetonius
Roman History by Cassius Dio

Music: Gloria Jones - Tainted Love

Dame is a Four Letter Word would like to take this moment to acknowledge that incest is not psychologically or biologically healthy, no matter what ancient Babylon, ancient Rome or Return of the Jedi would have you believe.

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Badass Physicist: Lisa Randall

So, Lisa Randall is this physicist doing pretty interesting work at Harvard. Her articles are pretty fascinating. I suggest having a gander.


Here's a post of hers I found called "The Beauty of Branes."

"Sisterhood of Spies"

Just an awesome article I stumbled across. Nothing like two sweet-looking old ladies telling stories that involve grenades as a practical joke.


The Adventures of Doris and Betty


And oh yes, there will be a spy episode soon.