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An erudite pair of 16-year-olds made a history report well worth watching.
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Gitanjali Rao
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Fanchon Blake
In the 1970s Fanchon Blake was a sergeant in the Los Angeles police, and department policies held that women were ineligible for promotion beyond that rank. She filed a lawsuit against discriminatory hiring policies and won.
Sexagenarians take down carjacker
Miriam Ben-Shalom and Karen Weiss were on a date when they encountered the assailant. Ben-Shalom, a former drill sergeant, quickly subdued him.
If male scientists were written about like successful women
Write-ups of women often sadly focus on their physical features or domestic life before any of their accomplishments. Twitter user Daurmith imagined what it might be like if the same was done for men.
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My Young Auntie (1981)
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Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship accepts 10 year old girl
The Paris Summer Innovation Fellowship gives 20 applicants funding, tools, space, and mentorship to work on technology to improve the city. Most applicants are computer science PhDs or urban designers, but 10-year-old Eva saw there was no age limit and applied for the fellowship.
Random Princesses
Velu Nachiyar
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.
Alakhai Beki
This Mongol stood up to the most fearsome man in the world and in so doing, prevented a genocide.
Wallada bint al-Mustakfi
Spirited poetry-spouting princess who lived an audacious life and put her cheating lover on blast with her expert slam poetry.
Nafanua
When an oppressive regime threatened her home, this Samoan war goddess took matters into her own hands.
Emmy Noether
Revolutionized the field of mathematics, yet was persecuted for being Jewish and paid a pittance for her visionary teaching work.
Neerja Bhanot
When terrorists hijacked her plane, she gave her life to save it, becoming the youngest recipient of India's highest honor.
Marie Marvingt
Ludicrously over-accomplished athlete who invented flying ambulances and won the only gold medal ever awarded by the French Academy of Sports for "all sports" - yes, all of them.
Taytu Betul
This stubborn empress led her native Ethiopia to do the unthinkable - defeat one of the major European powers in war.
Micaela Bastidas
The strident partner of the eponymously-named Tupac Amaru Rebellion of native peoples against the Spanish, she handled army and bureaucratic…
Isabel Godin des Odonais
To reunite with her husband, she went on a months-long trek through the jungle -- and was the only survivor.