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Although her tribe was destroyed and she was forced into an unwanted marriage, this indomitable woman came to run the world's largest empire - with a woman as her companion.
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Led colony of escaped slaves and protected them from the English using borderline supernatural abilities.
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When a government magistrate unjustly killed her son, this unassuming middle-aged wife spent years raising an army to topple that same government.
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This single mom developed the field of Mexican archaeology, while fiercely protecting it from the sleazy and opportunistic.
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