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Roundly-despised and unfairly-maligned seductress of the bible who ran afoul of the wrong priests.
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This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.
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To save an oncoming passenger train, this 15-year-old girl climbed across a collapsing bridge, with nothing but flashes of lightning to keep her from falling to her death in the flooding river below -- a river that had already killed her father.
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One of the greatest pharaohs to ever live, she built up Egypt so much that a generations-long sustained effort to erase her from history couldn't do the trick.
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This Polish nurse sacrificed her safety, her marriage, her very family to save 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust.
The Mirabal Sisters
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