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Ching Shih
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Nellie Bly
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Ada Lovelace
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When the English laid siege to her castle home, this Scottish woman bedeviled them until they gave up.
Tamar of Georgia
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The Night Witches
This all-female civilian volunteer unit of the WW2 Soviet military overcame a lack of training, equipment, and faith to pull off one of the greatest underdog feats in human history and in so doing become Germany's worst nightmare.