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“ A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]
Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]
Maud Wagner, the...
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A Swedish woman hitting a neo-Nazi protester with her handbag. The woman was reportedly a concentration camp survivor. [1985]

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Volunteers learn how to fight fires at Pearl Harbor [c. 1941 - 1945]

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Maud Wagner, the first well-known female tattoo artist in the U.S. [1907]

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A 106-year old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47. [1990]

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Komako Kimura, a prominent Japanese suffragist at a march in New York. [October 23, 1917]

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Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, standing next to the code she wrote by hand that was used to take humanity to the moon. [1969]

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Erika, a 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union. [October 1956]

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Sarla Thakral, 21 years old, the first Indian woman to earn a pilot license. [1936]

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Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail. [1961]   (freakin’ immaculate)

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Now with more awesomesauce!

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Female pilots leaving their B-17, “Pistol Packin’ Mama” [c. 1941 - 1945]

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The first basketball team from Smith college. [1902]

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Filipino guerilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation. [1944]

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Afghani medical students. [1962]   (man, screw fundamentalism.)

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A British sergeant training members of the ‘mum’s army’ Women’s Home Defence Corps during the Battle of Britain. [1940]

and just to wrap up…

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Nina Simone, one of the most talented vocalists of the 20th century.

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