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Women
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
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
Stephanie St. Clair: The Harlem Gambling Queen Who Took On the Mafia and NYPD
Shammuramat, the Real Life Queen Behind the Legend of Semiramis
Women Who Should be Better Known: WWII Heroine and SOE Pioneer Lise de Baissac
Meowing Nuns: The Weird Mass Hysteria that Swept a Medieval Convent
World War I Heroine Milunka Savic, History’s Most Decorated Female Soldier
Mother Bickerdyke: The Heroic US Civil War Nurse Who Saved Thousands of Lives
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
The Crimean War’s Other Nurse: Mary Seacole
Golden Girl Bea Arthur Was a WWII US Marine Sergeant
A Tragic Love That Scandalized a Country and Ended in Execution: Camila O’Gorman and Father Ladislao Guiterrez
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
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
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
The Chauvinist Prank That Backfired and Led to the Election of America’s First Woman Mayor
Fighting Women: Fearsome French Buccaneer Anne Dieu-le-Veut
Fighting Women: Queen Tomyris Ended a Great Conqueror’s Career in Dramatic Fashion
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