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Headed a squadron of 80,000 pirates, ruled the Chinese seas for two decades, and actually retired happily - but not before extorting a nice pension from the Chinese government.
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This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time - but the truth she was hiding was far darker.
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Led colony of escaped slaves and protected them from the English using borderline supernatural abilities.
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Indomitable pirate queen who ran Morocco and ruined Portuguese trade.
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Fort constructs mobile shelters and grows food to help out the homeless.
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The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.
Fredegund
Possibly the most cartoonishly evil woman to have ever existed, this Merovingian queen was an endless source of assassination attempts - including, on one memorable occasion, her own young daughter.
Florence Nightingale
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Mahendradatta
This Indonesian queen ruled wisely and justly in life, and was deified as the embodiment of all evil after her death. The story of why gets a bit complicated.
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Sword-slinging Arabian heroine who stars as the heroine of an extremely long and entertaining epic tale.
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Bisexual cross-dressing spy princess of the Qing dynasty - a hero to some and unspeakable villain to others.
Nwanyeruwa
Instigated a massive "women's war" against British taxation, the effect of which was one part protest movement, one part comedy roast, and one part block party.
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