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With a dead husband and a hostile foreign country on her hands, this Indian queen did the unthinkable - turned her loyal servants into some of the first suicide bombers in recorded history.
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This legendary pockmarked poet sang truth to power and was killed for it, becoming an enduring symbol of resistance.
Anne Hutchinson
This uneducated rebel preacher upstaged New England magistrates so much that they founded Harvard University in part to prevent women like her from gaining power.
Elisabeth Bathory
Possibly the most prolific female serial killer in history, a primary inspiration for Dracula, one of the most reviled women in history, and, I argue, innocent.
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When this Spanish merchant went out to pick cabbages, she stumbled upon an unusual kind of pest: a French knight.
Takeko Nakano
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