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RP Theatre: Negotiation Tactics!
In which the RPs teach you how to negotiate!
HBO Gives Crime Mob Boss Stephanie St. Clair Her Own Movie
Enterprising (and entertaining) Harlem Renaissance Mob Boss Stephanie St Clair (previously covered here) is getting her own movie, from HBO!
Stephanie St. Clair to get her own HBO movie!
Harlem mob boss (and previous RP) Stephanie St Clair is set to get her own HBO movie! Ahh, exciting!
Stephanie St. Clair
This audacious black gangster fought the Italian mob for control of Harlem and won, taunting them in full-page newspaper ads as she went.
Random Princesses
Takeko Nakano
When the end of an era was at hand, this samurai woman refused to go gently.
Man-deok Kim
When famine hit Jeju island, where she'd been exiled since birth, this prostitute-turned-businesswoman spent her fortune to feed everyone.
Kumander Liwayway
When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, this beauty queen traded face powders for explosive ones.
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.
Vitka Kempner
Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot.
Olympias of Macedon
The much-maligned woman fought tooth and nail to position her son, Alexander, to become "the Great" - and herself in the process.
La Jaguarina
This undefeated half-Spaniard fencer was a household name in the 1800s - only to vanish into retirement (and obscurity) when she ran out of people to fight.
Qiu Jin
This revolutionary martyred herself to help rid China of the Qing dynasty.
Pingyang
This unlikely heroine created her own Woman's Army of 70,000 soldiers through good manners and political savvy - and then used it to overthrow one of China's greatest douchebags.
Te Puea Herangi
The reluctant royal who became the Maori's greatest leader.