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Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
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America's ostensible first female self-made millionaire was a black beauty magnate who did it all for her daughter.
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Somalia's ballsiest queen, she took power from men either figuratively or literally - by ordering much of the gender castrated.…
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Sermerssuaq
An Inuit woman so strong nobody could even beat her lice in arm-wrestling, her story just gets stranger the closer you look.
Hypatia
The first female mathematician in recorded history, and one of the luminaries of the ancient world - but her grisly death at the hands of a mob was only the start of her troubles.
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