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Cornelia Sorabji
12 345 678 9101112 1314 1516 171819 20 2122 232425 2627 28293031 32 It doesn’t seem like it’s something that even needs to be explained, but such are the times we live in: colonialism was bad. The...
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96-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Fronts a Death Metal Band | Open Culture As we get older, family and friends may pass away or leave us somehow, but for many of us creativity can be our solace. This is...
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Mercadera
12 3 4 5 6 7 The conflict in question was the Aragonese Crusade – not to be confused with the Aragonese Conquest. The Crusade actually was tangentially related to the story of Isabella of France. ↩...
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Bessie Stringfield
(important update: there’s been a lot more to come out about Bessie Stringfield than when I first wrote this; that’s relayed at the end of this article, but for more info on Bessie, visit biographer...
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Mary Patten
The first American woman to command a ship1 was a pregnant teenager. She did it while fighting off a mutiny, nursing an incapacitated husband, and braving gale-force winds. She was 19. Mary Ann Patten...
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Millie Veasey, Part of Trailblazing Unit in WWII, Dies at 100 – The New York Times She served in an all-black, all-women’s battalion tasked with untangling a mail-delivery nightmare, and later led the...
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Anne Farquharson-Mackintosh
1 234 567 8 91011 1213 1415 1617 181920 21 2223 I don’t understand the song lyrics much more than you do. So the broad outlines are confirmed in a lot of places – the finer details I had to get from...
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Alakhai Beki
123 45 67 8 9 10 1112 1314 15 First off: yes, George Lucas ripped off Mongolian fashion for Princess Amidala in the Star Wars prequel trilogy. ↩ The missing section has to do with inheritance, and...
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Overlooked No More: She Followed a Trail to Wyoming. Then She Blazed One. The Western territory made history in 1869 by giving women the right to vote. When Esther Morris became justice of the peace a...
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Sarah Biffin
1 23 45 6 78 9 10 111213 1415 16 1718 19 Thanks to Cygnata for writing in and suggesting I cover Sarah! Her name is often spelled “Biffen” – even on Wikipedia – but she herself spelled it Biffin. I’m...
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