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| A female mason overlooking the city of Berlin — Circa 1900 |
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| A female Lockheed engineer fixing a P-38 lightning in Burbank, California — 1944 |
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| A group of female pilots exiting their B-17, Pistol Packin’ Mama — Circa 1941-1945 |
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| A Muslim woman covers the Star of David of her Jewish neighbour to avoid prosecution, Sarajevo — 1941 |
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| A Dutch woman refuses to leave her husband, a German soldier, after Allied soldiers captured him. She followed him into captivity — 1944 |
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| Women’s Liberation Coalition March in Detroit, Michigan —1970 |
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| A female Samurai warrior — Circa late 1800s |
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| A suffrage activist protesting after "The Night of Terror" — (1917) |
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| A captured Soviet soldier is given water by a Ukrainian woman — 1941 |
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| A concerned mother of seven, Florence Thompson, worrying about her children during the infamous Dust Bowl — 1936 |
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| An L.A police officer looks after an abandoned baby napping inside her desk drawer — 1971 |
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| A woman sipping a cup of tea mid the ruins following the devastation of the London Blitz — 1940 |
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| American aviator and author Amelia Earhart was the first woman to navigate across the Atlantic Ocean — 1928. She mysteriously disappeared on July 2, 1937 |
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| American nurses arriving to help out in Normandy, France — 1944 |
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| A 106-year-old Armenian woman protecting her home with an AK-47 — 1990 |
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| Anna Lee Fisher became the first mother in space — Circa 1980s. Apart from her work with NASA, she was an American chemist and an emergency physician. |
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| Annette Marie Sarah Kellerman posing in a swimsuit that got her arrested for indecency — Circa 1907. She was an Australian professional swimmer, vaudeville star, film actress, and writer. |
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| Brave Parisian women shielding their children from German sniper fire — 1944 |
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| Ellen O’Neal was one of the first professional female skaters — 1976 |
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| Elspeth Beard was an Englishwoman who attempted to circumnavigate the world by motorcycle. Her trek lasted 3 years — 1980s |
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| Erika the 15-year-old Hungarian fighter who fought for freedom against the Soviet Union — October 1956 |
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| Young women boxing on a Los Angeles rooftop — 1933 |
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| Female railroad workers gathering for lunch — 1943 |
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| Female snipers of the Soviet 3rd Shock Army — May 4, 1945 |
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| Filipino guerrilla, Captain Nieves Fernandez, shows a US soldier how she killed Japanese soldiers during the occupation |
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| Medicine Students in Afghanistan — 1962 |
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| Gertrude Ederle was the first woman to swim across the English Channel — 1926 |
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| Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon despite attempts by the marathon organiser to stop her — 1967 |
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| Komako Kimura, a well-respected Japanese suffragist, marches in New York — October 23, 1917. Check The Comfort Women of the Imperial Japanese Army |
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| Leola N. King was America’s first female traffic cop, Washington D.C — 1918 |
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| Margaret Hamilton, lead software engineer of the Apollo Project, stands next to the code she wrote by hand which was used to take humanity to the moon — 1969 |
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| Marina Ginesta, a 17-year-old communist militant, overlooking Barcelona during the Spanish Civil War — 1936 |
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| Maud Wagner was the first female tattoo artist in the U.S — 1907 Check Freak Shows of the Past — One and Two |
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| Photographer Margaret Bourke-White atop the Chrysler Building — 1934 |
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| Red Cross nurse takes down the last words of a British soldier — Circa 1917 |
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| Sabiha Gökçen from Turkey was the first female fighter pilot — 1937 |
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| Sarla Thakral from India was the first female pilot at only 21 years of age — 1936 |
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| Simone Segouin, an 18 year old French Résistance fighter, during the liberation of Paris — 19 August 1944 |
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| Women lifting heavy blocks of ice — 1918 |
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| The first female basketball team was from Smith College — 1902 |
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| The first group of women sworn into the U.S. Marine Corps — 1918 |
 The Ladies of the Hell’s Angels Motorcycle Club — 1973 |
 Volunteer firefighters at Pearl Harbor — Circa 1941-1945 |
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| Voting activist Annie Lumpkins at the Little Rock city jail — 1961 |
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| Winnie the Welder — October 1943 |
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| Women’s Home Defence Corps Training during the Battle of Britain — 1940 |
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