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Ancient inscription on statue carved by 'King Midas' tribe finally deciphered | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Abida Sultaan: India's 'rebel' Muslim princess who shot tigers and drove a Rolls-Royce (www.bbc.com)

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How a Woman brought about Thanksgiving (youtu.be)

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First Madhumala Chattopadhyay, the woman who made the Sentinelese put their arrows down...!

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Art and Music Badass Virgin Mary Medieval Catholic Art!

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Science and Invention Suzanne Wellington Tubby Batra the Entomologist who coined the term " Eusociality " to describe the behavior of certain species like Bees and Ants!

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Art and Music Trobairitz the female equivalent to the Troubadours and the first known female composers of Western Secular Music!

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Medieval Women: In Their Own Words at the British Library is unmissable (theconversation.com)

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Literature and Writing Calling all historians! Please help me preserve this little piece of 19th century women's history (Rosina Bulwer Lytton)

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Activism and Politics 100,000 Iranian women march against the Hijab Law, Tehran, 1979 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Four-Year-Old Dorothy Good is Jailed for witchcraft, March 24, 1692 – Historic Ipswich (historicipswich.net)

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Books Elizabeth Arden's most unlikely love - an obese lesbian who gave her the one thing no one else could | Daily Mail Online (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Work and Economics ‘We knew she was a fairy when we saw her:’ How Irish folklore around spinning instructed women artisans (theconversation.com)

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Military Kahina/Dihya BADASS African Queen who fought against Muslims in North Africa more than 1200 years ago!

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Badass Exhibition shows that 15th Century Women led armies and performed surgery! (amp.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Meet Mary Astell, England's "First Feminist" Who Challenged John Locke (allthatsinteresting.com)

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Amelia Earhart on her scooter - 1935 (uploads.ovarit.com)

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The Mothers of Gynaecology: 3 black enslaved women (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Work and Economics Women in Line Work - Women in Power Systems (womeninpowersystems.com)

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Gangs’stories: Soraya, the ‘real’ Queen of the South in Nicaragua (theconversation.com)

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Janet Sobel: The Woman Written out of History (getpocket.com)

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Military 1736 - article about two women disguised as men in both France and England (uploads.ovarit.com)

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1859 - The body of Harriett Stokes who went by Henry Stokes is found after suspected suicide. I couldn’t help but be so impressed by all of the “man” jobs she was able to accomplish by pretending to be a man. We’ve always been capable. RIP Queen (uploads.ovarit.com)

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1846 - Unnamed Woman going by “Johnny” shows up at hospital with broken leg. Shes a stagecoach driver, swears and drinks. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Badass 1848 - The story of Sophie Locke, aka John Smith. Who lived her life as a man. She work as a scissor grinder, was married twice, and had the support of her community who kept her secret. (uploads.ovarit.com)

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