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Pensioners become pop idols with their band KBG84 playing to sell out crowds, although defibrillators are close at hand at concerts
You’re never too old.
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Some have questioned why I write about brutal and morally reprehensible people, instead of just focusing on good role models. I have thoughts on the matter.
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International jewel thief Doris Payne, now 84, has a criminal history that dates back to the 1950s.
Harriet Tubman National Historical Park
Harriet Tubman's home outside Auburn, New York, has been declared part of the National Park Service system. It will focus primarily on the activism of her later years, such as her work as a suffragist.
Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship accepts 10 year old girl
The Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship gives 20 applicants funding, tools, space, and mentorship to work on technology to improve the city. Most applicants are computer science PhDs or urban designers, but 10-year-old Eva saw there was no age limit and applied for the fellowship.
Today I learned that WW2 spies used exploding camel shit to disable Nazi tanks in northern Africa.
Giving new meaning to "blowing shit up."
Random Princesses
Marjana
The actual hero of the Ali Baba myth, this slave girl saves the titular character by singlehandedly dispatching the forty thieves - without him even knowing.
Marie Marvingt
Ludicrously over-accomplished athlete who invented flying ambulances and won the only gold medal ever awarded by the French Academy of Sports for "all sports" - yes, all of them.
Sermerssuaq
An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
Penta
When her brother of this fairytale princess decided to marry her, she warded him off by cutting off her own hands. Then she gave birth to a dog. It got weirder after that.
Constance Markievicz
Socialite turned sniper turned socialist politician - Ireland's first woman elected to office had quite a life.