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Women's Forest Service Reserves
A picture showing women in 1943 practicing how to combat forest fires.
Mom walks 30 hours through snow and wilderness to get help for family
When the family car fell into a ditch, 46-year-old Karen Klein walked for 30 hours through 26 miles of snow, subsisting on twigs and her own urine, to get help for her husband and 10-year-old son.
Japan's greatest warlord... a woman?
There's a theory going around Japan that could dramatically rewrite their history. It posits that Uesugi Kenshin, one of their greatest warlords, was actually a woman. And there's some pretty compelling evidence.
All-girl rocketry team going to nationals
The rocketry team of Notre Dame Academy (in Los Angeles), whose members are all girls, earned a spot in the Team America Rocketry Challenge national competition.
The changing roles of Cherokee women
Cherokee women traditionally were equal to men, politically, economically, and sexually. As white settlers coerced the tribes to adopt European manners of living, women lost much of the power they originally possessed.
Stephanie Steninger
“He invaded *my* space,” she said. “I have a right to be on that trail.”
Deals for Mother's Day!
I just put the new book on the store for Mother's Day - and put up some discounts!
Inventions by women
The stereotypical inventor is male. Here then is a list of inventions by women throughout history.
The greatest weapon against women's suffrage: LOLCats
100 years ago, pictures of cats were used to mock the women's suffrage movement. Cannot imagine that it worked, because they're adorable.
‘Sade’, A Pitch About An African Princess, Sells To Disney
'bout damn time.
Random Princesses
Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
Princess Caraboo
This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time - but the truth she was hiding was far darker.
Taytu Betul
This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.
Dhat al-Himma
Sword-slinging Arabian heroine who stars as the heroine of an extremely long and entertaining epic tale.
Tamar of Georgia
Saint, sovereign, and fiercely independent woman, she quashed two rebellions from her ex-husband, expanded her nation's borders, and ushered in a golden age.
Ani Pachen
When China invaded her native land, this would-be monk put down her pacifist dreams and took up arms.
Alice B. Clement
Chicago detective whose crime-busting exploits grew so popular she had her own newspaper series and starred in her own movie.
Sonya Golden Hand
Russia's greatest female thief was so slippery that even once she was re-captured after escaping from a Siberian prison, nobody was totally sure it was her.
Sigrid the Haughty
When some scrubs hit on her, she burnt them alive. When a king slapped her across the face, she obliterated his kingdom. Sigrid the Haughty was not to be messed with.
Mercadera
When this Spanish merchant went out to pick cabbages, she stumbled upon an unusual kind of pest: a French knight.