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Sor Juana Inés de La Cruz
This brilliant poet rose from illegitimacy and poverty to become one of the luminaries of her age - until she flew too close to the sun.
Sor Juana and Lyudmila Pavlichenko get their turn in the sun!
Proving RP is ahead of its time, two previous entries have just gotten their own TV series and a movie released in America!
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Matilda of Tuscany
Fiery defender of the pope who made kings kneel before her.
Sarraounia
The "panther queen" of the Azna defeated some of the greatest villains of French colonial history through wits, cunning -- and possibly magic.
Vasilisa Vasilyevna
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Ida B. Wells
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Mary Seacole
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Osh-Tisch
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Elisabeth Bathory
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Ada Lovelace
History's first computer programmer, who invented algorithms for the first computer - which didn't even exist during her lifetime, so…