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Velu Nachiyar

Velu Nachiyar (1730-1796)
The Mom Who Made a Bomb
With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.

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