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Female WWII pilot gets back in the air
Joy Lofthouse returns to flying a Spithouse plane after 70 years.
Edith Clifford
Edith Clifford was a sword swallower of such skill that her closing act involved a cannon firing a bayonet down her throat.
Women scientists use Twitter to show off their toys
After an interview joked that scientists are "boys with toys", women took to Twitter to show off their toys
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
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Interview with Women's Voices Now
Women's Voices Now has an interview about RP up in their publication, The WVoice.
Annie Duke
NPR took a look back at the first World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions in 2004, and how being the only woman in the tournament both harmed and helped the winner.
Doris Payne
International jewel thief Doris Payne, now 84, has a criminal history that dates back to the 1950s.
Arming Kabul's girls with skateboards
A nonprofit has taken to empowering Afghan girls in an unorthodox way: teaching them how to skate.
The 1920s Women Who Fought For the Right to Travel Under Their Own Names
They weren't okay with being listed "and wife."
Random Princesses
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.
Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.
Julie d'Aubigny
Sword-slinging, opera-singing bisexual rock star of the 17th century - who burnt down a convent to romance a nun and had to be pardoned by the king of France TWICE.
Tin Hinan
The greatest leader of the nomadic Tuareg tribe of northern Africa, who put their men in veils and let their…
Micaela Almonester
After decades of gaslighting and emotional abuse at the hands of her in-laws, this iron-willed woman survived being shot four times point blank, won a separation from her husband, and became one of the most respected business icons in New Orleans.
Empress Myeongseong
Picked to be an impotent figurehead, this savvy intellectual quickly learned how to play politics and modernized the nation to ward off invasion.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
Brash, funny, and difficult, this mother of three wrote her way out of extreme poverty with her uncompromising look at Brazilian society - and was alternately lauded and berated for it.
Rosalind Franklin
The three men who accepted the Nobel Prize for "the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century" neglected to mention one thing: they owed much of their success to one brash, brilliant, and overlooked female scientist.
Kurmanjan Datka
A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
Xtabay
Chaste and virtuous woman spends life assuming she's better than her more sex-positive neighbor, and for this haughtiness becomes in…