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Yusra Mardini
A dinghy, built for six but holding twenty refugees, broke down in the Aegean Sea. Mardini, her sister Sarah, and two others jumped out and swam for three hours, pushing the boat all the way to Lesbos.
Fabiola Gianotti
The former project leader of one of the teams that discovered the Higgs boson has been promoted to director-general of CERN, the first woman to hold that position.
Disney stops gendering its Halloween costumes
Instead of dividing up costumes as "for boys" and "for girls", Disney is labeling all kids' costumes as "for kids".
Malawian chief annuls child marriages, sends kids to school
Senior Chief Inkosi Kachindamoto annulled hundreds of marriages involving children so they could go to school.
Indian widows defy taboo to celebrate Holi
Thousands of widowed women celebrated the spring festival of Holi at temples this year, defying traditional expectations that curb what activities a woman may do after her husband's death.
A peek at the lives of Afghani schoolchildren
NPR talks to schoolchildren in Kabul about their days and their dreams.
"Uncle" Olive Yang
So here's a wild story: lesbian (possibly trans) Burmese princess becomes opium-trading warlord to escape arranged marriage.
Ishita Malaviya
For most of her life she thought she'd have to go to California to surf. When she discovered she could surf along India's own coast, she co-founded the Shaka Surf Club to let everyone else know that too.
Ha'a Keaulana
Keaulana trains for surfing by carrying a 50-pound boulder across the sea floor.
Phoebe Snetsinger
After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Snetsinger became driven to become the world's best birder, eventually seeing around 85% of the bird species on the entire planet.
Random Princesses
Nana Miriam
When a firebreathing shapeshifting hippo menaced her people, this shaman faced it down in a magic battle - and then hurled it into space.
Anahit
This Armenian folktale princess saved her hapless beau - by making him get a job.
Iara
When this indigenous Brazilian warrior mermaid proved too awesome for her tribe, she just took up residence in the water, and started an aquatic harem of passers-by.
Micaela Bastidas
The strident partner of the eponymously-named Tupac Amaru Rebellion of native peoples against the Spanish, she handled army and bureaucratic…
Jeanne de Clisson
When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.
Vera Peters
When she was told to "go do women's work" after upstaging the medical community in her treatment of Hodgkin's disease, Dr. Vera Peters revolutionized breast cancer treatment through years of painstaking, meticulous work.
Osh-Tisch
The last Crow nation baté (Two Spirit mystic) in history, she earned her name -- which means "Finds Them and Kills Them" -- by tirelessly fighting to preserve her way of life.
Sita
After being saved from demonic forces, this legendary Indian princess is then subjected to endless purity tests by her own husband. She eventually puts an end to his questions in a manner that surprised everyone.
Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.
Taytu Betul
This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.