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The female Indiana Jones.
Issue #18: filmmaking, exploring, world travels, murder, Hollywood fame.
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The brawling bigamist dancer who briefly and unofficially ruled Bavaria.
Issue #17: theatre, fake identities, royalty, riots, unexplained deaths.
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The princess who resisted marriage by challenging suitors to defeat her in wrestling.
Issue #16: Ghengis Khan, martial arts, politics, war, marriage.
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August 2023 wrap-up
The month in review on Traditional Women.
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The first female physics professor at a European university—with many other 'firsts' to her name.
Issue #15 : physics, Isaac Newton, debating, teaching, motherhood.
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The erotica author who lived as a man in an Islamic order.
Issue #14: religion, writing, assassination, drugs, infidelity.
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The gunslinger who fought wolves and bandits as a postal worker—in her 60's.
Issue #13: missionaries, saloons, stagecoaches, baseball, Black US history.
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The Middle Ages noblewoman who avenged her husband with a thirteen-year piracy rampage.
Issue #12: royalty, murder, war, piracy, privateering.
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The Black woman behind the Playboy bunny costume.
Issue #11: haute couture, classical piano, entrepreneurship, ballet, Playboy.
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July 2023 wrap-up
The month in review on Traditional Women
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The WW2 spy who used her knitting as a cover for codes.
Issue #10: race cars, revenge, spies, parachuting, outwitting Nazis.
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The woman denied work in films—who ended up making more than 40 documentaries.
Issue #9: filmmaking, documentaries, sexism, alcoholism, activism.
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