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In fighting the bias of the caste system to spread education, this woman brought knowledge to girls across India.
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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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Vitka Kempner
Spy, smuggler, saboteur, partisan: this Jewish woman refused to go like a lamb to the slaughter, and fought the Nazis tooth and nail... even after the war, when she, alongside others, poisoned thousands of Nazi POWs in a revenge plot.
Gouyen
When an enemy killed her husband, this Apache woman broke the rules of her tribe to get revenge - and in so doing, became one of her tribe's greatest heroes.
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This Hmong morality tale shows how to be a good person, but it certainly takes some twists getting there.
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This legendary pockmarked poet sang truth to power and was killed for it, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance.
Black Agnes
When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
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Independent, bold wife of the Prophet Muhammad, she led armies in the Battle of the Camel and was one of…
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This heroine of South America and Italy fought in numerous civil wars alongside her husband, Giuseppe Garibaldi, often while pregnant…