Helaine Becker

Let the rump-us begin! With its cheeky pictures and riotous rhymes, Ode to Underwear gets behind that most overlooked, underappreciated wardrobe essential: underwear! In brief: Be prepared to laugh your butt off. Let's hear it for our underwear Our fun to wear best underwear It keeps us warm and dry down there So give a cheer for underwear!

The most powerful pirate in history was a woman born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the late 1700s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years...