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Philip II was the son of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. He was Charles V's only living legitimate son, as his father had only two living legitimate daughters, while his other sons died young (There's also John of Austria, but he was illegitimate). It was under Philip II...

How would it have impacted the British/Victorian national consciousness if the first major serial killer in modern history is 1, caught, and 2 discovered to be a woman? If this alternate 'Jane the Ripper' went on to give interviews before her inevitable execution where instead of more...

What if a woman would sit on the election throne of Poland? As we know from the example of Anna Jagiellon, it was difficult for a woman in Poland at that time to exercise independent power, even if it was the woman who was the last representative of the dynasty. However, what if among the...

What if Arnold Schwarzenegger was born as a woman?

So personally i think if i have to guess from what i know of ancient times that back in the day it was mostly man that had a strong interest in literature and knowledge about history and that studied history and litterature etc, am i wrong or right about this?, what do you guys think?.

This might be a bit NSFW topic for some people, but I've read that in late 19th century and early 20th century Paris and Budapest, public toilets with "Female Pissoirs" were pretty widespread. They were like male urinals, except they had a longer and wider forward-reaching area to catch the...

Courtesy to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, Cosmonauts from various "brotherly countries" have got to visit Space and become early human pioneers in exploration of the Final Frontier. For example in OTL, the first non-American, and non-Soviet person in space ended up being a Czech person...

What do you think is the earliest divergence point for cultures around the world to not consider female bodily functions displayed openly to be strange? For example, I've read that during the airing of the Horror movie "Black Christmas" this year, many men were confused by the concept of the...

Okay, so your challenge here is incredibly simple yet pretty difficult: give a woman dictatorial power over a country. Absolute monarchs don't count. Bonus points if they have the necessary disposition and retain power for long enough to do some incredibly fucked up shit.