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Bill Moyers Journal: Sarah Chayes on Rebuilding Afghanistan (2008)
Sarah Chayes Bio


Bill Moyers Journal: Susan Jacoby on American Ignorance
The Open Mind: The "Dumbing Down" of America - Susan Jacoby





The following are some exceptional women:

Extraordinary Women from the Golden Age of Muslim Civilisation


Nigeria's 19-year old Saheela Ibraheem, Final Year Student of Neurobiology in Harvard | Africa-OnTheRise

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Shakuntala Devi - India's Human Computer

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SABRINA GONZALEZ PASTERSKI - CUBAN AMERICAN SCIENTIST. She completed her undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earned her PhD from Harvard University and is a PCTS Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University.[11]
From a young age, Pasterski demonstrated intellectual brilliance. In 2009, aged just 16, she became the youngest person in the US to build an aircraft and fly it solo (Charlotte Goodger)
HER WEBSITE: PHYSICSGIRL






Oriana Fallaci: journalist, interviewer and author 
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Nur Jahan(1577-1645 C.E.) Wife of the Emperor Jahanjir, she was considered by many historians to be the real power behind the throne
Nur Jahan holding a portrait of Emperor Jahangir, about 1627
Nur Jahan holding a portrait of Emperor Jahangir, about 1627




When Sabina Spielrein returned to Russia in 1923 she opened a kindergarten where children were to be raised as free persons as early in life as possible. Although Stalin had enrolled his own son Vasily under a false name, the institution was closed by the authorities using doctored-up sexual perversions on the children as an excuse.
Her husband Pavel Scheftel died in Stalin’s Great Terror in 1936, and her brother, a pioneering Soviet psychologist, also in 1937. Sabina Spielrein and her two daughters were murdered by Nazi troops in 1942:

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By Unknown - Family photo, Public Domain, Link


Sabina Spielrein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
»Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein«
ISFP Gallery of Russian Thinkers: Sabina Spielrein





Hypatia of Alexandria, who believed in common sense rather than blind religious belief, was murdered by fanatical monks

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By "French-born American portrait painter, illustrator, printer, engraver, Roycroft artisan, teacher, art critic and writer.">Jules Maurice G




Sofia Kovalevskaya, a genius mathematician, part Romani origin, Russian Emigre:
Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja 1
Photographie der russischen Mathematikerin Sofja Wassiljewna Kowalewskaja. Das Foto entstand kurz nach 1880 und stammt vermutlich aus der Sammlung des Mittag-Leffler-Instituts der Schwedischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Stockholm. Siehe auch: Cordula Tollmien: Fürstin der Wissenschaft. Die lebensgeschichte der Sofja Kowalewskaja. Beltz & Gelberg, 1995. S.112, 191.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya




Tomyris reigned over the Massagetae, an Iranian people from Scythian pastoral-nomadic confederation of Central Asia east of the Caspian Sea, in parts of modern-day Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, western Uzbekistan, and southern Kazakhstan.[3][4][5][6] Tomyris led her armies to defend against an attack by Cyrus the Great of the Achaemenid Empire, and, according to Herodotus, defeated and killed him in 530 BC.
Tomyris




Helen of Burma/Goodreads

Autobiography of Helen Rodriguez who was the daughter of a Scottish nurse and a Portuguese surgeon, born and raised in Burma (Myanmar). She was a nurse throughout the Japanese occupation during WW2. The Sunday Telegraph said: “HELEN OF BURMA is an inspiring story. Nobody reading it can believe that women are, except by their own choice, the lesser sex”
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Helen-Burma-Rodriguez/dp/0002170027





Mary Seacole, Jamaican nurse during the Crimean War

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By Unknown - Unknown, Public Domain, Link

Only known photograph of Mary Seacole (1805-1881), taken c.1873 by Maull & Company in London by an unknown photographer





Gabrielle-Emilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Chatelet (French scientist and philosopher) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia

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Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil.

Émilie du Châtelet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze/Lavoisier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

David - Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife.jpg
By Jacques-Louis David - Metropolitan Museum of Art, online database: entry 436106 (accession number: 1977.10), Public Domain, Link

David - Portrait of Monsieur Lavoisier and His Wife
Imaging a career in science: the Iconography of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier





Gertrude Bell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Amazon.com: Desert Queen Janet Wallach Kindle
BellK 218 Gertrude Bell in Iraq in 1909 age 41
Gertrude Bell in Iraq in 1909 age 41



Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Astrophysicist), as a postgraduate student she discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967 (
This discovery eventually earned the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1974; however, she was not one of the recipients of the prize) Wikipedia
Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Launch of IYA 2009, Paris - Grygar, Bell Burnell cropped




Rosalind Franklin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rosalind Elsie Franklin: Pioneer Molecular Biologist
Rosalind Franklin Society - Home

Rosalind Franklin.jpg
By MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology - From the personal collection of Jenifer Glynn., CC BY-SA 4.0, Link



Lise Meitner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lise Meitner | Biography | atomicarchive.com
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics
Hahn and Meitner in 1912





How the Woman Who Found a Leprosy Treatment Was Almost Lost to History : Alice Ball
Alice Augusta Ball




Jewish-Austrian Inventor:

Hedy Lamarr Foundation

Hedy Lamarr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hommage à Hedy Lamarr
The Official Site of Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr in The Heavenly Body 1944





Annie Oakley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Annie Oakley with her gun



Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game






Nancy Wake - WW2 Secret Agent, born in New Zealand, fearless and strong as an ox

Nancy Wake (1945).jpg
By Australian War Memorial on line catalogue ID Number: P00885.001, Public Domain, Link

1945. STUDIO PORTRAIT OF NANCY WAKE, HIGHLY DECORATED WOMAN MEMBER OF THE ALLIED ESCAPE ROUTE ORGANISATION IN OCCUPIED FRANCE 1940 - 1943. FOR HER WORK WITHIN THE FRENCH RESISTANCE SHE WAS KNOWN BY THE GESTAPO AS THE WHITE MOUSE. SHE IS WEARING A BRITISH ARMY UNIFORM, THAT OF THE FIRST AID NURSING YEOMANRY. (DONOR N. FORWARD) Copyright Clear Higher resolution versions of this image may be ordered through the AWM Website at www.awm.gov.au The photo was taken during the Second World War. Higher resolution images may be ordered through the AWM (Source: email from the AWM to Nick Dowling 6 January 2006).





Madame Clicquot, the Veuve Clicquot : history of the widow of the House Veuve Clicquot
Veuve-Clicquot-Boursault
Portrait of Madame Clicquot and her great-granddaughter Anne de Rochechouart-Mortemart by Léon Cogniet.

Veuve Clicquot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Statue of Fu Hao at Yinxu Military General - Priestess

Fu Hao - Wikipedia

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The Demonization of Empress Wu | History | Smithsonian
Wu Zetian - Wikipedia

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By Unknown - Image taken from An 18th century album of portraits of 86 emperors of China, with Chinese historical notes. Originally published/produced in China, 18th century. (British Library, Shelfmark Or. 2231), Public Domain, Link





Anna Ella Carroll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna Ella Carroll, Maryland Women's Hall of Fame

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By <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/75426880@N06">TradingCardsNPS</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/tradingcardsnpsyahoocom/7222843898/">Anna Ella Carroll Advisor to the President</a>, CC BY 2.0, Link





Loyalist 1812 heroine Laura Secord

Henry Sandham (1910) Laura Secord.jpg
By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Henry_Sandham" class="extiw" title="w:en:Henry Sandham"><span title="Canadian artist (1842-1910)">Henry Sandham</span></a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayItem&amp;lang=&amp;rec_nbr=2837587&amp;rec_nbr_list=4310475,4310664,2837587,2895507,3309834">Library and Archives Canada</a>, Public Domain, Link






Rebecca West - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Two very interesting books you can read online:

Internet Archive: Free Download: THE NEW MEANING OF TRAEASON
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Part One) - 41.01
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Part Two) - 41.02
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Part Three) - 41.03
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Part Five)
Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Rebecca West, Download - Barnes & Noble

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By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Yevonde" class="extiw" title="w:en:Yevonde">Madame Yévonde</a> - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contact_us/Photo_submission" class="extiw" title="w:Wikipedia:Contact us/Photo submission">Contact us/Photo submission</a>, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link






Erlund Hudson - Telegraph

Clara Driscoll (Tiffany glass designer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clara Driscoll and the Tiffany Girls: The Women of Tiffany Studios by Margaret K. Hofer, Nina Gray, from Antiques & Fine Art magazine

Clara Driscoll (Tiffany glass designer) 1901.jpg
By From The Metropolitan Museum of Art, unknown photographer - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/design/25kast.html?scp=3&amp;sq=clara%20driscoll%20and%20tiffany&amp;st=cse">https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/arts/design/25kast.html?scp=3&amp;sq=clara%20driscoll%20and%20tiffany&amp;st=cse</a>, Public Domain, Link




Barbara Tuchman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
American author of popular history, twice Pulitzer Prize winner

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By <a href="//www.flickr.com/people/35740357@N03" class="extiw" title="flickruser:35740357@N03">The U.S. National Archives</a> - cropped from: <a class="external free" href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shirer_(Left),_Barbara_Tuchman_(Center),_and_John_Eisenhower_at_the_Conference_on_Research_and_World_War_II_and_the_National_Archives,_June_14-15,_1971.jpg">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Shirer_(Left),_Barbara_Tuchman_(Center),_and_John_Eisenhower_at_the_Conference_on_Research_and_World_War_II_and_the_National_Archives,_June_14-15,_1971.jpg</a>, Public Domain, Link



First woman in space:
Valentina Tereshkova - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Valentina Tereshkova

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By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Link






Svetlana Savitskaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2nd woman in space, first woman to walk in space:

Svetlana Savitskaya, 7 December 2018.jpg
By Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0, Link






Hanna Reitsch: Hitler’s Female Test Pilot

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By Unknown author - KSAK:s tidning flygrevyn, Public Domain, Link





Sabiha Gokcen - another great pilot,( Turkish)

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By Unknown author - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6VEJuTU4AAAVyP.jpg">https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6VEJuTU4AAAVyP.jpg</a>, Public Domain, Link



Brooksley Born - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Pasted GraphicWarning | Watch S28 E2 | FRONTLINE | PBS | Official Site

Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Enduring Power of Queen Njinga | BU Today

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By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Achille_Dev%C3%A9ria" class="extiw" title="w:en:Achille Devéria"><span title="French painter (1800-1857)">Achille Devéria</span></a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw150782/Ann-Zingha">http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portraitLarge/mw150782/Ann-Zingha</a>, Public Domain, Link


Menen Asfaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Biography of Empress Menen Asfaw: Anjahli Parnell: Amazon.com: Kindle Store

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By Unknown - http://spa.fotolog.com/photo/42/19/65/livity_in_sion/1200436117_f.jpg, Public Domain, Link

 





Tamar of Georgia (Tamar the Great)
Queen Tamar of Georgia (r. 1178/1184-1213)

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By Unknown - Part of the 12th-13th-century Vardzia Monastery mural File:Queen Tamar - Vardzia fresco.jpg, Public Domain, Link





Rani Lakshmibai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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By Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi - Gallery, which that says it is from the British Library's 'Images Online Collection', but the provided link to the Collection is dead., Public Domain, Link



Category:Female Sikh warriors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laskarina Bouboulina.Laskarina "Bouboulina" Pinotsis was a Greek naval commander, heroine of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, and allegedly first woman-admiral of the Imperial Russian Navy.Wikipedia

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By Anonymous - 19th-century painting. National Museum of History, Athens [1], cf. better online copy at [2]
Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by User:Sreejithk2000 using CommonsHelper., Public Domain, Link



The Tru'ng Sisters (AD 12 - AD 43), Vietnamese rebel leaders - rebelled against Han China

Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese novelist at the Imperial court during the Heian period.

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By <span lang="en">Anonymous</span> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://pic3.zhimg.com/v2-100fef49eb3ed98b816874f6e8e55f8e_r.jpg">https://pic3.zhimg.com/v2-100fef49eb3ed98b816874f6e8e55f8e_r.jpg</a>, Public Domain, Link



Artemisia, Warrior-Queen of Halicarnassus
Artemisia at the Battle of Salamis. On the identification with Artemisia: "...Above the ships of the victorious Greeks, against which Artemisia, the Xerxes' ally, sends fleeing arrows...". Original German description: "Die neue Erfindung, welche Kaulbach für den neuen hohen Beschützer zu zeichnen gedachte, war wahrscheinlich „die Schlacht von Salamis“. Ueber den Schiffen der siegreichen Griechen, gegen welche Artemisia, des Xerxes Bundesgenossin, fliehend Pfeile sendet, sieht man in Wolken die beiden Ajaxe" in Altpreussische Monatsschrift Nene Folge p.300:

Artemisia at the Battle of Salamis.jpg
By Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 19th century -
This file has been extracted from another file: Kaulbach, Wilhelm von - Die Seeschlacht bei Salamis - 1868.JPG
, Public Domain, Link








Wang Cong'er - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



The Riddle of Zhenfei (Imperial Concubine Zhen)
Imperial Consort Zhen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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By Unknown - http://guangxu.netor.com/gallery, Public Domain, Link







Margaret I of Denmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


 
 

 
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Marguerite de Navarre

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By Jean Clouet - [1], Public Domain, Link

Portrait of Marguerite d'Angoulême (1492-1549)






Ana Pauker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


 
 

Ana_Pauker

Ana Pauker, romanian communist leader
Ana Pauker | Jewish Women's Archive




Judit Polgár - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
Judit Polgar, chess grandmaster from Hungary

Judit Polgar

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By Stefan64 - Self-photographed, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link



Very outspoken Canadian Journalist from Alberta:
Catherine Ford Gets Personal

PROFESSOR JANICE STEIN, Canadian Scholar, Professor of Conflict Management and Negotiation:
Janice Stein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One of her books: Cult of Efficiency: You can get more of her books from here: AddALL.com - Cult of Efficiency
AddALL Rare Used and Out of Print Book Search

Jacqueline de Romilly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Franco-Greek philologist, classical scholar, and fiction writer).

Margaret Atwood Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic essayist, teacher, environmental activist and inventor.
Margaret Atwood's website
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Edna O'Brien - Irish Novelist memoirist, playwright, poet and short-story writer. Philip Roth described her as "the most gifted woman now writing in English"

MARGARET GILBERT: British-born social philosopher, author of groundbreaking books on human interaction, now at Irvine, University of California; some information:
UC Irvine - Faculty Profile System
“...With her wonderfully original mind, Margaret Gilbert is one of the greatest living scholars of social and moral history....”
Gilbert Breaking New Ground In Philosophy Of Social Phenomena - February 3, 2003
Margaret Gilbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Some of her books:
AddALL.com - browse and compare book price: Margaret Gilbert
Amazon.co.jp: Margaret Gilbert - Nonfiction: 洋書
Amazon.com: A Theory of Political Obligation: Membership, Commitment, and the Bonds of Society eBook: Margaret Gilbert: The Kindle Store
http://www.fil.lu.se/HommageaWlodek/site/papper/GilbertMargaret.pdf



Anna Komnene - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

History of Black Women in the Mathematical Sciences
10 Remarkable Female Mathematicians

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott says she has given $4.1B US to charity

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By US gov - cropped version of
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“It is worth fighting for even one child’s life” — Mrs. Marianna Vardinoyannis, Mandela Prize Laureate 2020/Activist
— Mrs. Marianna Vardinoyannis, Mandela Prize Laureate 2020

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By President.az, CC BY 4.0, Link




Josephine Baker - first black superstar, activist

https://youtu.be/Ggb_wGTvZoU/ Website

Joséphine Baker - photo Nadar.jpg
By <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4141511" class="extiw" title="d:Q4141511"><span title="French photographer">Paul Nadar</span></a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://expositions.bnf.fr/les-nadar/grand/nad_157b.php">http://expositions.bnf.fr/les-nadar/grand/nad_157b.php</a>, Public Domain, Link






Stagecoach Mary (Mary Fields):
"Meet Stagecoach Mary, the Daring Black Pioneer Who Protected Wild West Stagecoaches.Would-be mail thieves didn’t stand a chance against Stagecoach Mary. The hard-drinking, quick-shooting mail carrier sported two guns and men’s clothing."










Timeline of women in ancient warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timeline of women in medieval warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timeline of women in early modern warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women in warfare (1750–1799) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Timeline of women in 19th century warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women in warfare (1900–1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Women Warriors in the 20th Century : provided by Lothene Experimental Archaeology
Women in the military - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
African Queens and Warrior Women
African Women Warriors
Soviet women in World War II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soviet Women Pilots in the Great Patriotic War
Agnes Meyer Driscoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GirlsCount
Plan Canada - Because I am a Girl | Women Empowerment CampaignMiddle East Live/Guardian
Lady Linguists

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BIOCHEMISTS Jennifer Doudna (US) AND EMANUELLE CHARPENTIER (FRANCE) WERE JOINTLY AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY; THE FIRST SCIENCE NOBEL EVER WON BY TWO WOMEN ALONE


NASA Astronauts Make History with 1st All-Woman Spacewalk