Beyond 5000 on Instagram: "History remembers the men who got the credit… not the women who did the work. Lizzie Magie wasn’t just the “woman before Monopoly.” She was a game designer, writer and activist who believed unchecked capitalism would crush ordinary people. In 1904, she patented The Landlord’s Game to teach how monopolies exploit the poor. Three decades later, Parker Brothers bought her patent for $500 and erased her role, promoting Charles Darrow as the sole creator and giving him mill

Beyond 5000 on Instagram: "Mary Shelley was only 18 when she wrote Frankenstein, a story that would haunt generations for over 200 years. Born into a world of ideas and rebellion, her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, the famous feminist thinker, and her father William Godwin, a political philosopher. Mary grew up surrounded by radical thinking and intellectual debate. In 1816, she was in Switzerland with her husband Percy Shelley, a celebrated poet, and Lord Byron, the iconic poet known for his s

Beyond 5000 on Instagram: "Ramesses II, known as “the Great,” ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 BC, holding the throne for 66 years and living into his 90s. Over his long reign, he fathered more than 100 children, with some estimates suggesting up to 96 sons and 60 daughters. He had over 200 wives and concubines, including foreign princesses and his own daughters. Four of his daughters, Bintanath, Meritamen, Nebettawy, and Henutmire, became his wives and held the title of Great Royal Wife. Marrying