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Death by Arsenic. A brief history of women, poison, and… | by Fiona Kov | History of Yesterday (historyofyesterday.com)

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First Luisa Moreno, (1907-1992), Labor Organizer (americacomesalive.com)

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How Transatlantic Ocean Liners Ferried Women Into The Workforce | Here & Now (www.wbur.org)

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Celebrating Women’s History Month | Poetry Foundation (www.poetryfoundation.org)

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Badass 'The Dark Queens': Feminist history perfect for 'Game of Thrones' fans (www.usatoday.com)

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The Castrati and Eunuchs in history

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Women's Federation Monument – A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it. (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Will this Rare Portrait be Saved for the Nation? | A Brush With The Past (rfjblog.wordpress.com)

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In Our Time - Rosa Luxemburg | BBC Sounds (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Badass Meet Gladys Mae West, the hidden hero behind a system billions of people rely on today (www.accuweather.com)

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Activism and Politics Recognition at last! Matchwomen to be honoured with a blue plaque | Morning Star (morningstaronline.co.uk)

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A granddaughter passes on the legacy of a midwife born into slavery (www.npr.org)

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Rebecca Donner on Twitter: "#OTD My great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack was beheaded on Hitler’s direct order. (twitter.com)

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Art and Music Venice's great women artists step into the limelight through major restoration project (www.theartnewspaper.com)

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Statue of medieval England’s most prominent Jewish woman Licoricia unveiled in Winchester (www.thejc.com)

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First Madam CJ Walker, Self-Made Millionaire - HISTORY (www.history.com)

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Art and Music Judith in Early Modern Italian Art | Takes by Male & Female Artists (artherstory.net)

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Angry Women — FiLiA (www.filia.org.uk)

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Badass Biography: Mary McLeod Bethune - National Women's History Museum (www.womenshistory.org)

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Badass Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790) (archive.is)

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Erica X Eisen: The Kept and the Killed [reflections on the FSA archive of photographs of 1930s USA] (archive.is)

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Mama Cass Elliot Biography (youtu.be)

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In Our Time - Mary Astell | BBC Radio 4 (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Rosalind Franklin was so much more than the ‘wronged heroine’ of DNA (www.nature.com)

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Edmonia Lewis and Her Stamp on American Art | Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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