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Russia's greatest female thief was so slippery that even once she was re-captured after escaping from a Siberian prison, nobody was totally sure it was her.
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Indigenous lawmaker who united warring tribes under a unified code of laws that she made herself.
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Born in a prison cell, this revolutionary financed and led a large chunk of Greece's navy to victory in their fight for independence.