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RP Theatre: Negotiation Tactics!
In which the RPs teach you how to negotiate!
Zenobia
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This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.
Random Princesses
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This undefinable adventurer's life burnt bright but short: a wildcard of the Algerian revolution, she survived an assassination attempt by sabre, and died in a freak desert flood.
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Alakhai Beki
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Gudit
This Jewish-Ethiopian warrior queen took the throne, ended a millennium-old biblical dynasty, and caused a break in Ethiopia's history that has not healed to this day - or did she...?
Agnodice
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Pingyang
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Rosalind Franklin
The three men who accepted the Nobel Prize for "the most important scientific discovery of the 20th century" neglected to mention one thing: they owed much of their success to one brash, brilliant, and overlooked female scientist.