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Savitribai Phule
In fighting the bias of the caste system to spread education, this woman brought knowledge to girls across India.

Jezebel
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.

Pope Joan
This pope was largely assumed to be male until she gave birth in the midst of a procession - and largely assumed to be factual until the 13th century.

Hester Stanhope
100 years before Lawrence of Arabia, this British woman traveled the Middle East by herself, surviving shipwrecks, plagues, and Bedouin attacks in the process.

Olga of Kiev
Brutal princess-turned-Christian saint who burnt down enemy towns using pigeons.

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.

Jane Dieulafoy
A phenomenally successful archaeologist who became a fashion icon for wearing men's clothing.

Janequeo
When her husband was killed by conquistadors, this native Chilean showed the Spanish what "fight like a woman" really means.

La Jaguarina
This undefeated half-Spaniard fencer was a household name in the 1800s - only to vanish into retirement (and obscurity) when she ran out of people to fight.

Pingyang
This unlikely heroine created her own Woman's Army of 70,000 soldiers through good manners and political savvy - and then used it to overthrow one of China's greatest douchebags.