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After disguising herself as a man to be the physician women needed, she was put on trial - and won.
Micaela Bastidas
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America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
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Sex worker who became empress of the Byzantine Empire, and used her political power to safeguard her interests, and her…
Cornelia Sorabji
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Empress Myeongseong
Picked to be an impotent figurehead, this savvy intellectual quickly learned how to play politics and modernized the nation to ward off invasion.
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This princess held her father to his word in the most unexpected way: by demanding to marry the stupidest man in Korea.