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[Image Description: Sophia Tolstoy (right) with Leo Tolstoy (left) in Crimea in 1902.] via NY Times

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[Image description: Photograph of Sara Forbes Bonnetta] Via English Heritage

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Members of WASP (from left to right), Frances Green, Margaret (Peg) Kirchner, Ann Waldner and Blanche Osborn leave their ship, Pistol Packin' Mama, a B-17 Flying Fortress, at the engine school at Lockbourne AAF, Ohio.

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[Image Description: A portrait of Nur Jahan.] via Cultural India

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On the left, a portrait of a woman, the Rani of Jhansi, shows her clad in a tradition Indian dress and jewelry. On the right, there is an image of a statue of the Rani of Jhansi on a horse. A boy, her son, is strapped to her back while she wields a sword in the air.

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Painting titled 'Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori)', showing 'Death', a skeleton, threatening people at a banquet table

This woman’s side hustle killed over 600 abusive husbands in 17th century Italy

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An image of a mountain joined by four images of a woman in Armenian clothing.

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(A grayscale image of young Beat poet Hettie Jones) Via hettiejones.com

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