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Bikes and Babes–Women Motorcyclists Riding into History - Los Dos
1915 - Avis and Effie Hotchkiss, a mother and daughter team, rode from New York to California to attend the San Francisco World’s Fair while making themselves the first female riders to cross the United States.
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Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait: Unseen And Rare Photographs Of The 'Queen of Crime' - Flashbak
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait: Unseen And Rare Photographs Of The 'Queen of Crime' - Flashbak
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Nelson Mandela wearing a Liverpool Football Club jersey during the teams tour to South Africa
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10 More Unsolved Murders - Listverse
Dian Fossey pioneered studies with gorillas in Africa, tried to stop the poaching of the them. In 1967 Fossey founded the Karisoke Research Center, located deep within the Virunga Mountains, Rwanda. Born: 16-Jan-1932 Birthplace: San Francisco, CA Died: 26-Dec-1985 Location of death: Parc National des Volcans, Rwanda Cause of death: Murder which has never been solved.
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wandrlust: Margaret Bourke-White working at the top of the Chrysler Building, New York, New York, 1935. The only brick highrise in the world!! Also, no one died building it!
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Hazel Ying Lee - Wikipedia
Hazel Lee, a female Chinese American pilot in WWII. Check out her wikipedia page, she was pretty amazing
Nadezhda Popova, who died on July 8, 2013, at 91, was one of the Soviet Union's "Night Witches," female bomber pilots who took on the Nazis during World War II. Popova flew 852 combat missions - 18 of those in one night - and was named a Hero of the Soviet Union. Later in life she said, “At night sometimes, I look up into the dark sky, close my eyes and picture myself as a girl at the controls of my bomber, and I think, ‘Nadya, how on earth did you do it?’ ” Soviet Women, Female Officer, Women In Combat, Women In Aviation, Female Pilots, Women Soldiers, Female Military, Night Witches
Nadezhda Popova, who died on July 8, 2013, at 91, was one of the Soviet Union's "Night Witches," female bomber pilots who took on the Nazis during World War II. Popova flew 852 combat missions - 18 of those in one night - and was named a Hero of the Soviet Union. Later in life she said, “At night sometimes, I look up into the dark sky, close my eyes and picture myself as a girl at the controls of my bomber, and I think, ‘Nadya, how on earth did you do it?’ ”
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Mata Hari's Jewelry
Mata Hari's Jewelry Margaretha Geertruida Zelle (1876-1917) was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan best known as Mata Hari. She once half jokingly said to friends, "I will be celebrated or notorious." She also thought she would eventually die on the scaffold. It all came to pass except that she was shot not hung, accused as a spy during the First World War.
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Laura Ingalls Wilder - Daily Dish with Foodie Friends Friday
Laura Ingalls Wilder, one of my favorite authors. She was one of the last woman to live in a world that many have forgotten. Moving from place to place when too many people came. The beauty of an unsettled world was not lost on her, and she yearned for space to live. She has always remained one of my fav authors, never fading into the woodwork.#Repin By:Pinterest++ for iPad#
“1912 - Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who became the first ballet dancer to tour the world with her own dance company. She moved to London in 1912 and is photographed here in her Hampstead garden wearing a soft belted gown, hat and her ballet shoes.” Via British Vogue Lady Duff Gordon, Ballet Russe, Anna Pavlova, 1910s Fashion, Russian Ballet, Edwardian Fashion, Edwardian Era, Vestidos Vintage, White Photo
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“1912 - Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who became the first ballet dancer to tour the world with her own dance company. She moved to London in 1912 and is photographed here in her Hampstead garden wearing a soft belted gown, hat and her ballet shoes.” Via British Vogue
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Nancy Wake: French Maquis, SOE operative, and all around Gestapo bane (once killed an SS officer with her bare hands), she was the most decorated Allied woman of WWII. Nancy Wake, Perang Dunia Ii, French Resistance, Women Warriors, Brave Women, Badass Women, Cthulhu, Military History
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Nancy Wake: French Maquis, SOE operative, and all around Gestapo bane (once killed an SS officer with her bare hands), she was the most decorated Allied woman of WWII.
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Female WWII Pilots: The Original Fly Girls
About 1,100 young women flew military aircraft stateside during World War II as part of a program called Women Airforce Service Pilots — WASP for short. These civilian volunteers ferried and tested planes so male pilots could head to combat duty.
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Op-Ed: Remembering Clara Immerwahr in the Year of Chemistry
Clara Immerwahr - one of the first women to get her PhD. Killed herself after her husband Fritz Haber, himself a chemical genius unleashed the use of chemical weapons on the world in WWI.
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Readers suggest the 10 best … spies – in pictures
Nancy Wake(1912-2011) Probably the longest living spy, she was a leading figure in the Maquis groups of the French resistance. As a European correspondent to an American paper, she witnessed the rise of the Nazis. The Gestapo called her the White Mouse because of her propensity to elude capture, and by 1945 she was their most wanted person. She parachuted into the Auvergne and once killed an SS sentry with a single judo chop.
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Male Explorer Revealed To Be A Female Two Centuries Later | The Mary Sue
French botanist Jeanne Baret disguised herself as a man and set out on a journey that would make her the first woman to circumnavigate the globe.