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This Armenian folktale princess saved her hapless beau - by making him get a job.
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When her husband was unjustly executed, this French noblewoman-turned-pirate became the terror of France.
Freydís Eiríksdóttir
When attacked by Native Americans, this pregnant viking bared her chest, brandished a sword, and took them on by herself. And she won.
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After escaping the Armenian Genocide (by walking across the Syrian desert while pregnant), this woman went back into Armenia to rescue her sons, then made her way to America -- where she invented the recipe for Rice-a-Roni.
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Cross-dressing Queen of Thieves who flouted social norms and had plays written about her.
Micaela Bastidas
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Mandukhai Khatun
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One of the greatest pharaohs to ever live, she built up Egypt so much that a generations-long sustained effort to erase her from history couldn't do the trick.
Velu Nachiyar
With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.