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When flying cannibal ghosts kidnapped two women, there was no man that could save them. But there was a woman.
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When her brother was killed, this pharaoh took her time cooking up revenge.
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Carolina Maria de Jesus
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100 years before Lawrence of Arabia, this British woman traveled the Middle East by herself, surviving shipwrecks, plagues, and Bedouin attacks in the process.
Étaín
Mythological Irish princess who was turned into a worm, butterfly, and a pool of water; who induced the strangest pregnancy since Jesus; and who may hold the key to understanding Ireland's history.
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Jewish businesswoman who saved thousands of Jews from the Inquisition by smuggling them out of the country.