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Girl survives 2 mile fall and 9 mile hike - Juliane Koepcke (dustyoldthing.com)

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Life of Indian princess who fought Nazis to be told in TV series (amp.theguardian.com)

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Model Your New Year’s Resolutions After Marilyn Monroe’s in 1955 |Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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First Ladies National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service) (www.nps.gov)

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Chica da Silva (1731/1735-1796) (www.blackpast.org)

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The Sea Women of South Korea | The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

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Candomblé, Afro-Brazilian Women, and African Religiosity in Brazil – AAIHS (www.aaihs.org)

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What made Hindu and Muslim women take up prostitution? The British really wanted to know (theprint.in)

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Lost to History: Genealogy

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The Smithsonian Women’s History Act will establish a women’s history museum on the National Mall (www.vox.com)

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WW2's 'Spitfire Women': Eleanor Wadsworth, one of last female pilots, dies - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Mexican farmers find rare female statue in citrus grove (abcnews.go.com)

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Victorian Oppression of Women Through Psychiatry (www.theatlantic.com)

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Lin Farley Marched the First March and Gave 'Sexual Harassment' a Name (thevelvetchronicle.com)

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Who Am I? 12 Notable Women in American Medical History (infocus.nlm.nih.gov)

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Naginata a weapon that was popular among female warriors in Japan! (tvtropes.org)

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Stockholm Syndrome was invented by a psychiatrist to discredit a woman who criticized him after he almost got her killed (Reddit) (old.reddit.com)

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A Medieval Nun Led This Newly Unearthed Buddhist Monastery in Eastern India (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Mercury 13: Women of the Mercury Era (mercury13.com)

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Barbara Blake-Hannah: how Britain’s first black female TV reporter was forced off our screens | Television industry | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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The True Story of Semiramis, Legendary Queen of Babylon (www.nationalgeographic.com)

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The Way Americans Remember the Blackwell Sisters Shortchanges Their Legacy |History | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Archaeologists in Turkey Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Temple of Aphrodite |Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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First "11 Women Who Did Groundbreaking Things That Men Got The Credit For" - HuffPost (www.huffpost.com)

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Women Artists Reflect on How They Helped Shape SoHo |At the Smithsonian | Smithsonian Magazine (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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