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Princess post up later today – for the time being, enjoy these pictures of the Black Mambas – a majority-female anti-poaching squad in South Africa.
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Random Princesses
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Daring journalist who infiltrated insane asylums, exposed slavery rings, and raced around the world in under 80 days.
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…
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Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
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