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Fighting Women: Tomoe Gozen, the Fearsome Female Samurai
Fighting Women: Lakshmibai, Indian Warrior Princess
Anne Bonny: Fierce Female Pirate of the Caribbean
The Shaggs: A Prophecy, a Dad’s Delusions, and an Awful Album that Became a Cult Classic
The Tycoon and the Teenager: When Actress Jane Greer Rejected His Advances, Howard Hughes Bought a Studio to Wreck Her Career
Megastar Josephine Baker Risked Her Life for the French Resistance to Spy on the Nazis in WWII
Iva Toguri: The American Woman Stranded in WWII Japan Who Became ‘Tokyo Rose’
Business Pioneer Edna Murphey Created the Deodorant Industry by Convincing Women they Smelled Bad
Wealthy Heiress Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army: From Kidnapped Rich Girl to Radical Revolutionary
Sayyida al-Hurra: The Pirate Queen Who Terrorized the Mediterranean
Strongwoman Katie Sandwina, the ‘Lady Hercules’ and Pioneer of Women’s Strength Sports
Himmler’s Family After WWII: The Alternate Moral Universe of a ‘Nazi Princess’
Before Rosa Parks, there was Claudette Colvin: The Teenager Who Defied Segregation
‘England’s Worst Husband’: The Marriage of Andrew Robinson Stoney and Mary Bowes, King Charles III’s Ancestress
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Rachel Wall: America’s First Female Pirate
Typhoid Mary, and How Far Government Can Go to Protect Public Health
Shammuramat, the Real Life Queen Behind the Legend of Semiramis
Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre: A Marriage that Started With a Massacre and Ended in an Annulment
Women Who Should be Better Known: WWII Heroine and SOE Pioneer Lise de Baissac
Barbara Rose Johns: The Teenager Who Set in Motion the End of Segregation
Mary Wolverston, Lady Killigrew: Elizabethan Pirate Queen of Cornwall
Phyllis Latour: The WWII SOE Agent Who Posed as a Teenager in Nazi-Occupied France
Fighting Women: Khawla bint Al Azwar, the Muslim Mulan
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
World War I Heroine Milunka Savic, History’s Most Decorated Female Soldier
Teuta: The Ancient Pirate Queen Who Defied Rome
Frances Glessner Lee, the ‘Mother of Forensic Science’ Who Revolutionized Criminal Investigations
Mother Bickerdyke: The Heroic US Civil War Nurse Who Saved Thousands of Lives
Fighting Women: Vitka Kempner, the Inspirational WWII Jewish Partisan Leader
The Forty Elephants: The All-Female Gang That Preyed on London’s Elites for Generations
Saint Olga of Kiev’s Vicious Vengeance Campaign
Belva Ann Lockwood: The First Female Attorney to Practice Before the US Supreme Court
Age Is Nothing But a Number: Cora Coralina Published Her First Book in Her Seventies, and Became a Literary Icon in Her Nineties
Joan of Arc at the Siege of Orleans: A Victory That Transformed France
Rosalind P Walter, the Real Life Rosie the Riveter, and the Background of an Iconic Image
Fighting Women: Eta Wrobel Led an Anti-Nazi Partisan Unit in WWII
Looty: Queen Victoria’s Looted Dog
The Crimean War’s Other Nurse: Mary Seacole
Golden Girl Bea Arthur Was a WWII US Marine Sergeant
The Story Behind an Iconic Photo: ‘Children’s Friend’, a Viral Stalinist Image With a Tragic Aftermath
Fighting Women: Joan of Arc, the Teenager Who Saved France, and Was Abandoned by Her Countrymen
A Tragic Love That Scandalized a Country and Ended in Execution: Camila O’Gorman and Father Ladislao Guiterrez
Rosalind Franklin: The Unsung Heroine of DNA Discovery
Fighting Women: The Trung Sisters, Vietnam’s National Heroines
Fighting Women: Teenaged Zinaida Portnova Made the Ultimate Sacrifice Resisting the Nazis in WWII
Medieval Divorce Duels: When Couples Had to Fight Their Way Out of Unhappy Marriages
Audrey Hepburn vs the Nazis: The Hollywood Icon Was Once a Child Courier for WWII’s Dutch Resistance
Joanna the Mad: The Queen Who Dug Up Her Buried Husband’s Corpse and Slept With it For Years
Fighting Women: Queen Zenobia of Palmyra Almost Ended the Roman Empire
Agnes Sorel: The Royal Mistress Who Started a Bare Boob Fashion Fad
Fighting Women: Queen Ahhotep I Took Over Egypt’s Armies and Fought Invaders Who Killed Her Husband
Fighting Women: Simone Segouin, French Resistance Teenage Girl Who Liked to Kill Nazis
Fighting Women: Empress Matilda Was So Formidable, They Named Two Tanks After Her
Folklore and Mythology: Amazons in Wonder Woman vs Amazons in Ancient Greek Myths
Eerie Accounts of Queen Catherine Howard’s Screaming Ghost at Hampton Court Palace
Fighting Women: Boudica, the Warrior Queen Who Wreaked Havoc on the Romans
Victorians Feared that High Train Speeds Might Make Women’s Uteruses Fly Out of Their Bodies
Revolutionary War Heroine Sybil Ludington, The Female Paul Revere
Pink Became a Feminine Color Relatively Recently
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