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The Sea Women of South Korea
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Random Princesses
Ani Pachen
When China invaded her native land, this would-be monk put down her pacifist dreams and took up arms.
Luisa Capetillo
In 1915, this rowdy Puerto Rican activist was arrested for wearing pants in public. It wouldn't be the last time she wore pants, or got arrested.
Carolina Maria de Jesus
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Xtabay
Chaste and virtuous woman spends life assuming she's better than her more sex-positive neighbor, and for this haughtiness becomes in…
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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.
Eréndira
When horse-riding Spaniards invaded, she defied her tribe to befriend one of the abandoned horses, using her new bond to fight off the Spanish.
Elizabeth Bisland
Rose from poverty to become a respected journalist who raced Nellie Bly around the world.
Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
Banu Goshasp
This superhero of early Iranian mythology starred in her own stories, and plenty of them.