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Angela Jimenez
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When this Spanish merchant went out to pick cabbages, she stumbled upon an unusual kind of pest: a French knight.
Mary Anning
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Man-deok Kim
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Moll Cutpurse
Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.
Cornelia Sorabji
One of the first Indian women to practice law, she fought against -- and inside of -- a system that held no room for her.
Malinche
Sold into sexual slavery to Hernan Cortes, this maligned woman became his interpreter, and it was with her words that…
Tatterhood
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