In a regular deck of playing cards there are only four women, but in Zach Wahls’ version all 54 cards feature smart, resilient and inspiring women. Beyoncé is (of course) the queen, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the king, Harriet Tubman is number eight, and other well-known names to grace these cards include Ida B Wells, Rosa Parks, Sylvia Rivera, Dr Sally Ride and more. Measuring …
It started with bathhouses. Both Charlotte Hundley and her partner William McCusker had spent time in Budapest’s 16th century bathhouses, before ever meeting each other. “We loved the architecture, meditative rituals, the social aspects, and also the fact that people took hours out of their day to sit, sweat and soak with others—which is awesome,” she tells CH. When the two plotted building their own, …
While a beach vacation seems like a no-brainer these days, it wasn’t always the case. For an incredibly long time (antiquity to the 18th century) the seashore was a place of danger. The coast was known as where natural disasters and shipwrecks occurred; lives were lost. Classic myths were synonymous with the wrath and power of the ocean. But somehow, around the mid-18th century, Europeans …
