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Sisters who led an army on elephant-back to overthrow oppressive Chinese rule and establish a short-lived Vietnamese kingdom.
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Sword-slinging Arabian heroine who stars as the heroine of an extremely long and entertaining epic tale.
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This phony Asian royalty fooled rural England for some time - but the truth she was hiding was far darker.
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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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When her rebel husband was imprisoned, she continued the movement - by holding a castle under siege for three long, lonely years.
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Sword-slinging, opera-singing bisexual rock star of the 17th century - who burnt down a convent to romance a nun and had to be pardoned by the king of France TWICE.
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The first prosthetic limb in human civilization went to this ancient warrior queen. Or did it? The story is more complex than you might think.
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When some scrubs hit on her, she burnt them alive. When a king slapped her across the face, she obliterated his kingdom. Sigrid the Haughty was not to be messed with.
Josefina Guerrero
Let her leprosy go untreated for years to make herself the perfect spy in the Japan-occupied Philippines - soldiers wouldn't touch her, so she could slip right through.