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Kate Shelley
To save an oncoming passenger train, this 15-year-old girl climbed across a collapsing bridge, with nothing but flashes of lightning to keep her from falling to her death in the flooding river below -- a river that had already killed her father.

Laskarina Bouboulina
Born in a prison cell, this revolutionary financed and led a large chunk of Greece's navy to victory in their fight for independence.

Zenobia
3rd century Rome had a major woman problem. Her name was Zenobia, and she took over a huge chunk of their empire in her brief and tumultuous career as rebel queen.

Rani Lakshmibai
Widowed young queen who led a fearsome rebellion against the British with her child tied to her back.

The Mirabal Sisters
When a cruel dictator ruined this Dominican Republic family, these sisters gave their lives to end his.

Annie Jump Cannon
This astronomer threw off all the social conventions of her day to pursue her one true calling: the stars.

Onorata Rodiani
When an unrequited admirer began threatening her, this early fresco painter became one of history's first warrior artists.

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.

Beloved
The ghost of a tragically-murdered young child come back to haunt her mother in post-slavery America.

Sonya Golden Hand
Russia's greatest female thief was so slippery that even once she was re-captured after escaping from a Siberian prison, nobody was totally sure it was her.