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When colonial powers went too far, she rebelled in the most stylish way possible: dancing from town to town. It was surprisingly effective.
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Instigated a massive "women's war" against British taxation, the effect of which was one part protest movement, one part comedy roast, and one part block party.
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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.
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This goat-riding, spoon-wielding princess fought trolls to save her sister.
Nitocris
When her brother was killed, this pharaoh took her time cooking up revenge.
Ranavalona I
This brutal sovereign's reign saw her outlaw clapping, pioneer death by feet-kissing, and design giant weaponized scissors - but are we only getting one side of the story...?
Theodora
Sex worker who became empress of the Byzantine Empire, and used her political power to safeguard her interests, and her…
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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.
Ani Pachen
When China invaded her native land, this would-be monk put down her pacifist dreams and took up arms.