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When she was a teenager, Lyudmila Pavlichenko heard her neighbor’s son say that women can’t shoot – and she got angry. She decided that she
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In a time in which the Catholic Church explained that AIDS was a punishment for being gay, and Church officials called AIDS patients perverts, one
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Like in many other fields, males seem to dominate famous scientist lists. Sure, most people are familiar with Marie Curie and perhaps Rosalind Franklin, but
“And so, on May 13th, 1958, I found myself fighting against modern slavery: hunger!” So wrote Carolina Maria de Jesus in her journal, in one
Violet Jessop was lucky from a young age. She was born in Argentina in 1887 to Irish immigrants. She became ill with what her doctors
Miriam Makeba was first sent to prison when she was just 18 years old. It was 1932, during the Great Depression. Her mother, who typically