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Design a Wig
The Victoria & Albert Museum's website has a game where you can design 18th-century women's wigs. It is bizarre and glorious.
Tu Youyou
Humanity's greatest weapon against malaria came from an unlikely source: a secret military program, where a woman worked in obscurity for decades.
If male scientists were written about like successful women
Write-ups of women often sadly focus on their physical features or domestic life before any of their accomplishments. Twitter user Daurmith imagined what it might be like if the same was done for men.
Domino Harvey
Starting her young life as a model, she soon turned to bounty hunting - and eventually to drugs. She got a movie in 2005, but it couldn't hope to cover her complexity.
Joss Whedon to Direct "Batgirl" Movie
Please don't suck.
Tuira Kayapó
When the Brazilian government began building a dam on her people's land, she publicly cursed its leader - and for a time, the project fell apart.
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi share Nobel Peace Prize "Her award will not mark the end of her campaign to…
Timoclea
When a soldier raped her, this woman tossed him in a well and threw rocks at him until he died.
Kingdom of Girls: Women hold power in this remote Indian village
“To disrespect a woman in this culture means to harm the society. Daughters are often more wanted than boys, and a family with just sons is considered to be miserable, because only daughters can assure the continuity of a clan.”
Margaret Abbott
In 1900, Abbott made history as the first woman to come first place in an Olympic event. The rub? She didn't know it--and for decades, neither did anyone else.
Random Princesses
Manuela Sáenz
This revolutionary heroine of South America kept a pet bear, a disembodied moustache, and a lifestyle that defied every convention possible.
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.
Yael
Saved the Jewish people by hammering a tent spike through an unsuspecting house guest's head.
Phoolan Devi
This "untouchable" woman ended decades of abuse by starting a bandit gang and avenging the lower castes. After some time in prison, she got out, ran for parliament, and won.
Onake Obavva
When enemies invaded her town while her husband was on lunch break, she grabbed a nearby pestle and saved the day by achieving the high score in soldier whack-a-mole.
Marguerite de la Rocque
Stranded by her cruel relative on an abandoned Canadian island (literally named the Isle of Demons), she survived for two years by hunting animals and eventually made it back to France.
Charlotte Badger
The first European woman to end up in New Zealand, Charlotte Badger was part pirate, part adopted Maori, and part mom. Which part is which is somewhat lost to history.
Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh
When the true king of the Scots came to reclaim the throne, this spirited woman went up against her husband to back her chosen sovereign.
Naziq al-Abid
She traded a life of privilege for one spent fighting for justice on both literal and political battlefields so tirelessly that even exiling her five times couldn't keep her down.
Janequeo
When her husband was killed by conquistadors, this native Chilean showed the Spanish what "fight like a woman" really means.