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  By Alec | Edited By John Kuroski he Confession of Love The Rococo movement was an artistic period that emerged in France and spread thrartisticoughout the world in the late 17th and early 18th century. The word is a derivative of the French term rocaille , which means “rock and shell garden ornamentation”. It began in 1699 after the French King, Louis XIV, demanded more youthful art to be produced under his reign. It is also referred to as Late Baroque because it developed as Baroque artists moved away from symmetry to more fluid designs. The Rococo art movement addressed the most important controversy of the time – color versus drawing – and combined the two to create beautiful pieces. Artists of this period focused more on attention to detail, ornamentation and use of bright colors. Rococo furniture and architecture was defined by a move away from the austere religious symmetrical designs of the Baroque. Instead, they focused on secular, more light-hearte

  This photo was taken when the crew felt they had a good chance of freeing the trapped Endurance from the sea ice of the Weddell Sea, so they put the sails up. As we know, this and other attempts failed, and realizing the ship wasn’t moving Hurley went onto the ice to take this photograph. New details of sea ice have been revealed. Photo by Frank Hurley 1914-1917. Single-use permission from the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers. In what may be one of history’s most famous successful failures, explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and 27 other men set out on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914 to make what they hoped would be the first land crossing of Antarctica. The crew had hardly reached the continent when their ship was swallowed and crushed by ice. Freezing in unfathomably cold conditions, all 28 men survived for nearly 17 months in makeshift camps in a desperate trek back to civilization. Despite losing their ship, expedition photogr

  For millennia, cultures across the globe have venerated mother goddesses who embody maternal roles and symbolize fertility and cosmological creation. For the Inuit, Nerrivik is known as the sea mother and provider, and another deity associated with the sky, Pinga, watches over the hunt. In the Odinani tradition of the Igbo people in southeast Nigeria, Ala presides over the underworld and observes morality, fertility, and creativity. And in Greek mythology, Gaia is poetically portrayed as the personification of the Earth and the ancestor of all living beings. For artist Yulia Brodskaya , the unequivocal power of Mother Earth encompasses a vibrant series of quilled paper portraits that celebrate cultural diversity and women around the world. She says: I create from the place of honoring history and the past—drawing lots of inspiration from various cultures existing on the planet, but at the same time, making a conscious choice to bring forward a new vision of the future: a

  Aloha Wanderwell was born on October 13, 1906, as Idris Galcia Hall in Winnipeg, Canada. The seeds of her adventurous spirit were sown early in life. After the death of her father during World War I, she was sent to a French boarding school. But the confines of the school could not contain her wanderlust. By age 16, she had joined an expedition led by Walter Wanderwell, an explorer and adventurer. It was at this point she adopted the name “Aloha Wanderwell” – a name that would soon become synonymous with courage, exploration, and filmmaking. The Global Expedition In 1922, Aloha embarked on an ambitious expedition aboard a Model T Ford. Her journey began in Nice, France, and would span continents, taking her to places as varied as India, China, and Africa. Driving through treacherous terrains, crossing rivers, and navigating through political unrest, she embraced challenges that would have deterred most. Not just content with traveling, Aloha also documented these unprec

  Born 1934 in New York City, American actress and singer Tina Louise began her career on stage during the mid-1950s, before landing her breakthrough role in 1958 drama film God's Little Acre for which she received Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Louise had starring roles in a number of Hollywood movies, including The Trap , The Hangman , Day of the Outlaw , and For Those Who Think Young , appearing in The Wrecking Crew , The Happy Ending , and The Stepford Wives . She is probably most famous for portraying movie star Ginger Grant in the CBS television situation comedy Gilligan's Island from 1964 to 1967. Take a look at these stunning photos to see the glamorous beauty of this redhead woman from the 1960s.

  Women are weak? No, they're not only fun, strong, but also, sometimes they're dangerous too. Believe or not? Just check out these badass photos of naughty women from between the 1930s and 1960s to see.

  Born 1899 in New York City, American actress Genevieve Tobin had her stage debut in Disraeli in 1912. She appeared in a few films as a child and formed a double act with her sister Vivian. In 1929, she achieved a significant success in the play Fifty Million Frenchmen . She introduced and popularized the Cole Porter song “You Do Something to Me”, and the success of the role led her back to Hollywood, where she performed regularly in comedy films from the early 1930s. Tobin played prominent supporting roles opposite such performers as Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, Claudette Colbert, Joan Blondell, and Kay Francis, but occasionally played starring roles, in films such as Golden Harvest (1933) and Easy to Love (1934). One of her most successful performances was as the bored wife of a wealthy businessman in the drama The Petrified Forest (1936), starring Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, and Humphrey Bogart. Tobin married director William Keighley