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Katherine Johnson
Katherine Johnson was a "human computer" at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (later NASA), doing the math that would get Alan Shepard, John Glenn, and Buzz Aldrin to space and back.
Toy company Lego to produce Women of NASA set
And their choices are truly stellar.
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World
Rachel Ignotofsky, illustrator and author of a book featuring fifty women scientists throughout history, had an interview with mental_floss.
Hidden Figures trailer
The first trailer for the movie Hidden Figures was released recently.
Hidden Figures
An upcoming movie, Hidden Figures, tells the story of African-American mathematicians who helped get America's space program off the ground.
Random Princesses
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.
Nafanua
When an oppressive regime threatened her home, this Samoan war goddess took matters into her own hands.
Noor Inayat Khan
Pacifist Indian princess who gave up everything of herself to hold the line in occupied Paris during World War 2.
Nitocris
When her brother was killed, this pharaoh took her time cooking up revenge.
Riina
When flying cannibal ghosts kidnapped two women, there was no man that could save them. But there was a woman.
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.
Sutematsu Oyama
The first Japanese woman to go to college didn't have a choice. But the experience changed her - and she changed Japan in return.
Jezebel
Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
A'isha bint abi Bakr
Independent, bold wife of the Prophet Muhammad, she led armies in the Battle of the Camel and was one of…
Hatshepsut
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.