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Betty Robinson Schwartz
Random Princesses
Micaela Bastidas
The strident partner of the eponymously-named Tupac Amaru Rebellion of native peoples against the Spanish, she handled army and bureaucratic…
Sermerssuaq
An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
Nitocris
When her brother was killed, this pharaoh took her time cooking up revenge.
La Llorona
Mexico's infamous "weeping ghost" has many incarnations: a jilted widow, a slave princess, a milk addict, a coffee bag, and a pair of panties.
Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine
America had Al Capone. Sydney had Kate Leigh and Tilly Devine - who *hated* each other.
The Valiant Ladies of Potosi
Eustaquia de Souza and Ana Lezama de Urinza, two sword-and-gun-toting lesbian teen vigilantes - 17th century Bolivia's answer to Batman.
Ilona Zrinyi
When her rebel husband was imprisoned, she continued the movement - by holding a castle under siege for three long, lonely years.
Andamana
Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
Moll Cutpurse
Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.
Timoclea
When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.