Fanny Durack Australia may have been one of the first countries to grant women the right to vote, but that doesn't mean that women had full equality. Take Sarah…
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Juliette Gréco didn't get off to a promising start. She was born as a product of rape - a fact which her mother kept reminding her of. As a child,…
Turia Pitt: How Did She Get Burned? "I heard a noise, so I took off my headphones and raised my head. Then, I saw the fire. The huge wall of…
Gracia Mendes Nasi Beatrice de Luna (Dona Gracia) dreamed of a Jewish state, years before Hetrzl. She acted against authorities to protect Jews from Inquisition and settle European Jews.
Lizzie Magie was the true inventor of Monopoly, but her contribution has been largely ignored. She created The Landlord's Game to raise awareness for the dangers of monopolies.
Her speech, Ain't I A Woman, is still considered one of the most important and most quoted speeches in the history of the US. Quite an accomplishment for someone who never learned to read or write. A prominent feminist and abolitionist, she was the first Black woman to win a trial against a white man.
Violet Jessop: Early Life When you think of Violet Jessop, "lucky" is a term that comes to mind. She was born in Argentina in 1887 to Irish immigrants. She became…
The Trung Sisters: Their Early Life When Jesus was a year old, someone just as extraordinary was born far away - the eldest Trung sister. Around 1 AD, Trung Trac…
Lyudmila Pavlichenko: Early Life 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 would…
She was the first woman in Germany to become a full professor and later run a Physics department. Albert Einstein called her "the German Marie Curie" After World World II,…
Born as a slave, Harriet Tubman became the woman who led the most slaves to their freedom. She aunderwent brain surgery without anesthesia and was also the first woman to lead an attack in the U.S. military. These are just ways to describe Harriet Tubman, a woman who was born a slave, managed to escape, and instead of enjoying the life of freedom in the north - devoted her life to helping others.