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Onorata Rodiani
When an unrequited admirer began threatening her, this early fresco painter became one of history's first warrior artists.
Amaridevi
To ensnare the scheming ministers who were ruining her life, this princess used guile, cunning, and a sophisticated knowledge of civil engineering.
Moll Cutpurse
Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.
Thákane
When her deadbeat brothers demanded the impossible, this South African princess carried through, and slayed a dragon.
Banu Goshasp
This superhero of early Iranian mythology starred in her own stories, and plenty of them.
Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…
Zelia Nuttall
This single mom developed the field of Mexican archaeology, while fiercely protecting it from the sleazy and opportunistic.
Masako Hojo
When her shogun husband cheated on her, she raised an army and destroyed the other woman's house. Later she deposed her incompetent son to become the first nun to rule Japan.
Anahit
This Armenian folktale princess saved her hapless beau - by making him get a job.
Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.