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January 8, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Fannie Quigley

Miner, Hunter, Brewer, Cook, all-around Badass

This intrepid explorer used mine shafts as a beer fridge and shot bears to get lard for pie crusts.

January 5, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Minnie Dean

The Wickedest Woman in New Zealand

An unlicensed foster mom in an era desperately in need of them, she was unjustly made out to be a bloodthirsty murderer when one of the children in her care died of an accident.

January 4, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Wendy Carlos

The Godmother of Electronic Music

She developed the moog synthesizer. She did the score for Tron. And she's trans. She's probably more awesome than I'll ever be.

January 3, 2018 in Modern Worthies

Suzelle Poole

77-Year-Old Ballerina

"Life is too short not to do what you want to do... It's never too late. So start doing what you love doing now."

December 21, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Elizebeth Smith Friedman

WW2's Most Awesome Codebreaker

J Edgar Hoover called America's first female codebreaker “one of the cleverest woman operators I have encountered. Cultured, businesslike, cunning… she presented one of the most difficult problems in detection the FBI has tackled in this war.”

December 12, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Amla Ruia

The Grandmother Who Built Dams

This nonagenerian entrepreneur helps out villages across Rajasthan, India, by building dams.

November 24, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Dana Fischer

7-Year-Old Magic: the Gathering prodigy

And for those asking, yes, she's doing it in a cosplay outfit.

November 21, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Kimiko Nishimoto

Your New Favorite Photographer

I love 89-year-old Kimiko Nishimoto’s self-portraits. I want to be as cool as her if I grow up.

November 20, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Ann Gregory

First African-American Female Golfer to Compete Nationally

“It was better for me to remember that the flaw was in the racist, not in myself.”

October 31, 2017 in Modern Worthies

Domino Harvey

Model/Bounty Hunter

Starting her young life as a model, she soon turned to bounty hunting - and eventually to drugs. She got a movie in 2005, but it couldn't hope to cover her complexity.