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This brilliant poet rose from illegitimacy and poverty to become one of the luminaries of her age - until she flew too close to the sun.
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A clever woman who rose from obscurity to become a political force, playing nations against each other to protect her people.
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When her rebel husband was imprisoned, she continued the movement - by holding a castle under siege for three long, lonely years.
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Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
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When Columbus and his crew ravaged her land, this native Haitian poet gave all to keep the peace.
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Black, Muslim warrior queen of a tribe of griffin-riding Amazons - and the honest-to-god namesake of California.