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Mary Anning
1 2 3 4 5 67 8910 11 12 1314 1516 1718 19 2021 22 2324 25 26 As the story itself gets at, she was a well-known character in early 1800s England, and as such, did a fair bit of self-mythologizing. ↩...
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The Brilliant MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the ‘Honey Trap’ | Atlas Obscura During WWII, Betty Pack used seduction to acquire enemy naval codes. “Ashamed? Not in the least. My superiors told me...
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Nitocris
1 2 3 The main source on her is one paragraph in Herodotus’s Histories, which I’ll reproduce here in full: “To avenge her brother (he was king of Egypt and was slain by his subjects who then gave...
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Janequeo
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Okay, here’s the deal: weirdly enough, this is a Spanish history, not a Mapuche one. The Mapuche seemingly have no record of this, or at least none I can find. The Chilean...
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Amanirenas
1 23 4 56 7 8 9 1011 12 13 There’s a ton of different spellings of her name – Amanirenat, Imminerant, etc – but this seems to be the most common one. The Roman historian Strabo referred to her merely...
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Grace Humiston
“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” Takes on the NYPD: Known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,” Grace Humiston proved massive malfeasance on the part of the NYPD — after leading a huge overhaul of US labor law. I also love...
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Sutematsu Oyama
12 3 45 67 8 91011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 It’s a little unclear to me as to whether the wet quilts were left to older women, or to all women – I know for sure that Sakiko/Sutematsu was running...
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Black Agnes
123 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Most sources write her surname as Randolph, but R.R. Stodart’s Scottish arms: Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678 is insistent that her surname is Ranulph. ↩ It...
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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
123 4 5 67 8 9 1011 12131415 16 17 Her birth mother, according to most sources, was a Dutch maid who died in childbirth. Her dad was West Indian. Bessie was born as Betsy Ellis in Kingston, Jamaica....
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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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Sarah Biffin
1 23 45 6 78 9 10 111213 1415 16 1718 19 Her name is often spelled “Biffen” – even on Wikipedia – but she herself spelled it Biffin. I’m unsure as to the reasoning behind the posthumous spelling...
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Grace Humiston
“Mrs. Sherlock Holmes” Takes on the NYPD: Known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,” Grace Humiston proved massive malfeasance on the part of the NYPD — after leading a huge overhaul of US labor law. I also love...
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Sutematsu Oyama
12 3 45 67 8 91011 12 13 14 15 16 1718 It’s a little unclear to me as to whether the wet quilts were left to older women, or to all women – I know for sure that Sakiko/Sutematsu was running...
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Black Agnes
123 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Most sources write her surname as Randolph, but R.R. Stodart’s Scottish arms: Being a Collection of Armorial Bearings, A.D. 1370-1678 is insistent that her surname is Ranulph. ↩ It...
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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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