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Pistol-packing, liquor-swigging, 6'2" black postal carrier/babysitter of the Wild West.
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This Sikh warrior saint led 40 deserters back into battle and in so doing, possibly saved her entire religion from extinction.
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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.